Nokia has won a tender with German rail company Deutsche Bahn to test and deliver standalone 5G for autonomous trains and rail operations. It will be the first time a standalone 5G system has been used for rail automation, said Nokia. The project, based in Hamburg, in Germany, constitutes a step in the development of…
Ovum recently predicted that the global connected car market will grow from 59 million vehicles in 2016 to more than 308 million vehicles by 2022. As we sit halfway between these dates, more is changing than simply the vehicles on the road. Rather, the systems, platforms and networks that transform these machines into software-based hubs of…
Nokia has said it is building a “strategic partnership ecosystem” to bring private LTE and 5G networks to industrial and government customers in Japan. Spectrum for local LTE and 5G will be released in Japan at the end of 2019 for enterprise use. Nokia expects government agencies, manufacturing plants, utility companies, and rail and aviation…
Sometimes content gets left on the cutting room floor, and sometimes it does not even make the edit. And often that content is excellent, and deserves a feature all of its own. This is a (delayed) retelling of a briefing Enterprise IoT Insights had with an ‘OT operator’ a couple of months back in Sweden,…
Sometimes content gets left on the cutting room floor, and sometimes it does not even make the edit. And often that content is excellent, and deserves a feature all of its own. This is a (delayed) retelling of a briefing Enterprise IoT Insights had with an ‘OT operator’ a couple of months back in Sweden,…
The global manufacturing sector will spend over $1 trillion on smart software, hardware and services in 2030, almost quadrupling the $259 billion spend in 2019. The volume of wireless connections, including LTE and 5G, as well as low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies and Wi-Fi, will spiral upwards at the same time. There are 260 million digital…
Immersive technologies are removing barriers between physical and virtual environments. Our Advanced Manufacturing World Class Center helps clients to achieve superior performance by applying innovative technologies to manufacturing operations. Explore how immersive technologies remove frontiers between real and virtual. Factories of the future will be fully digitized but also virtualized to offer workers digital replicas…
Dutch firm NXP Semiconductors has completed the $1.76 billion acquisition of the wireless connectivity assets of Bermuda chip firm Marvell Technologies. The cash deal, agreed at the end of May, completed last week; it sees NXP augment its industrial IoT, automotive and communication portfolio with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth ‘combo solutions’ from Marvell. Marvell posted $300…
Digital technologies present many exciting opportunities for improving patient outcomes. Remote monitoring with medical sensors, shared access to patient records, personalized care plans, remote robotic surgery — and, the list goes on. However, something important is missing in many of these lists: rock-solid, secure (private) wireless. Without it, the digital, life-saving transformation of healthcare won’t…
Dutch smart lighting solutions provider Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, announced that it installed Interact Industry in the newly developed warehouse facility of Pilkington Automotive in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The Dutch firm said that this cloud-based, wireless connected lighting system is specifically designed for warehouses and manufacturing facilities. Pilkington Automotive is one of the world’s largest suppliers…
