French IoT firm Traxens has joined the Port of Rotterdam’s new smart container project, Container 42. It will provide the sensors in the container, to measure various physical and environmental impacts, as the container makes its way around the world in a bid to gain a better understanding of automated real-time logistics. The so-called Container…
Outdoor surveillance cameras will be the largest market for 5G internet-of-things (IoT) solutions over the next three years, according to analyst house Gartner. They will represent 70 per cent of installed 5G-based IoT endpoints in 2020. By 2028, however, as much as 94 per cent of the installed base of 5G-based IoT endpoints will be…
Seven mining and metals companies have joined a World Economic Forum initiative to design and deploy blockchain solutions for the whole industry. The seven founding companies are Antofagasta Minerals, Eurasian Resources Group, Glencore, Klöckner & Co, Minsur, Tata Steel, Anglo American/De Beers (Tracr). The group will look to develop joint proofs for an “inclusive” blockchain…
Ericsson exec discusses outlook for industrial adoption of 5G LOS ANGELES–Ericsson’s Erik Josefsson, head of advanced industries, is a surfer, he told Enterprise IoT Insights this week during Mobile World Congress. And, as such, he analogized industrial adoption of private networking in terms of waves. “We’ve had a couple of waves,” he explained. The first…
Verizon has installed millimeter wave 5G at Corning’s fibre optic cable factory in Hickory, North Carolina. The pair will build a “factory of the future” to take “massive steps forward in robotics and automation”. At the same time, Verizon has announced it has added Dallas, Texas, and Omaha, Nebraska, to its roster of cities with…
Three UK has said it is piloting NB-IoT and LTE-M as a first step in a nationwide rollout of cellular-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology in support of wholesale customers including ARM, Arkessa, AT&T, Wireless Logic and Mobius in the UK. It said the rollout will take several years. Its pilot network has been set up…
Germany industrial giant Siemens has announced a deal to acquire US startup Pixeom for an undisclosed fee, in a move to boost its industrial automation and digitalization division. Pixeom, responsible for the original Raspberry Pi-based personal cloud platform back in 2014, offers a software-defined edge computing platform to enterprises which runs on commodity hardware. Siemens…
Sprint has announced the availability of narrowband IoT on its Curiosity IoT platform, as a complement to the nationwide Cat-M rollout. The company said that NB-IoT technology further expands low-power wide area network access to its dedicated, virtualized and distributed network and operating system. “Whether its sensors are in a large fleet of cargo trucks…
Qualcomm is working with over 30 Chinese automotive companies, including the China-based joint ventures with European and US car makers, to showcase the commercial viability of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology for connected and autonomous vehicles. China will deploy commercial C-V2X in vehicles from next year, it said. Qualcomm said it has participated in comprehensive interoperability…
Vodafone has selected the Taoglas Edge hardware and firmware connectivity solution from Irish IoT antenna company Taoglas for its new Invent application development platform. Vodafone’s Invent platform allows enterprises to create bespoke IoT solutions for industries such as agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, energy and utilities, and transportation. The offer combines an application enablement platform with trained…
