Malaysia smart city effort focused on urban sustainability Japan’s NTT Group aims to launch what it claims to be one of Asia’s first smart city proofs-of-concept (PoC) in the city of Cyberjaya, in Malaysia, this month, the company said in a statement. The initiative is part of the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’…
Note, this article continues from a previous instalment: ‘Connectivity is 5% of Industry 4.0 spend – we’d rather talk apps and services’. Go here to read this article. So, what about those IoT use cases, which OBS reckons are proven (see above link for part one of this article)? “Some of the more, let’s say,…
OSIsoft has reworked its PI System for the energy sector to plug-in, process, and manage data streaming from distributed energy resources. It has picked up a couple of new contracts, as well. The company said the new architecture supports a “community system of data”, enabling suppliers, consumers, and service providers to share data, while “maintaining…
The state government in Victoria, in south-eastern Australia, has agreed to fund rollout of LoRaWAN-based IoT networks for 600 farms and 5,000 square kilometres of farmland in the state. Its department for agriculture, Agriculture Victoria, has appointed Australian LoRaWAN operator National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) to handle deployments, for four ‘On-Farm IoT Trial’ regions, around…
The two companies are teaming up to grasp new business potential in the fast-growing market for private 4G and 5G mobile networks. The rising demand for private cellular network solutions comes as industries and enterprises increasingly need advanced digitalization to ensure their competitiveness. Telecoms vendor Ericsson has teamed up with consultancy Capgemini to offer network…
The two companies are teaming up to grasp new business potential in the fast-growing market for private 4G and 5G mobile networks. The rising demand for private cellular network solutions comes as industries and enterprises increasingly need advanced digitalization to ensure their competitiveness. Telecoms vendor Ericsson has teamed up with consultancy Capgemini to offer network…
Orange has brought in a first wave of industrial companies into its new 5G-geared Industry 4.0 campus in Antwerp, in Belgium. Those to join are the Port of Antwerp, chemical company Borealis, and polymer manufacturer Covestro. The quartet will play (“co-innovate”) with real-life industrial applications that make use of the massive machine-type (mMTC) and incoming…
Sigfox IoT networks are now live in 70 countries. The French firm claims launches in three new markets in 2020, increasing its total country count by four and a half per cent compared with the end of 2019. Sigfox’s network in the UK has reached 90 per cent coverage, meanwhile. According to Sigfox operators, the…
Canadian telecom operator Rogers Communications and Fleet Complete announced a strategic partnership to provide local businesses with a full range of commercial fleet management and asset tracking solutions. This collaboration will deliver connected technologies, including vehicle and asset GPS tracking, to businesses that own and operate fleets across Canada and the United States, Rogers…
The LoRa Alliance set out its stall at The Things Conference, an annual LoRaWAN meetup in Amsterdam, with an agenda to make the IoT market simpler for developers, device makers, and enterprise customers, so it achieves massive scale, finally. Donna Moore, chair of the alliance, told the event, run by Netherlands-based LoRaWAN group The Things…
