Dense Air, a subsidiary of network infrastructure vendor Airspan, has signed a deal with the city of Cascais in Portugal, a municipality in the Lisbon district, to build a 5G smart-city test network that makes use of its local 3.6GHz spectrum holding, to support autonomous vehicles, industrial IoT and immersive education. Dense Air will build…
AT&T has joined Qualcomm’s smart cities accelerator programme, which now counts almost 70 members and met for the first time in San Diego last week. The initiative has been convened as a collaboration vehicle, to connect cities, municipalities, government agencies and enterprises with end-to-end smart city solutions. Qualcomm calls it an “all-in-one matchmaking programme”. The…
Hitachi Vantara has introduced a suite of AI-flavoured industrial IoT solutions to accelerate digital transformation on the shop floor in manufacturing operations. The new Lumada Manufacturing Insights package applies “data science rigor to drive continuous improvement” in manufacturing, said Hitachi Vantara. It incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to bring predictive and prescriptive…
At least 25 mobile operators worldwide are currently involved in trials of LTE or 5G-based Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) technologies, according to a recent study by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA). In its report, GSA has identified the following cellular-V2X ecosystem status: -25 operators involved in trials of LTE- or 5G-based C-V2X technologies; -Three 3GPP Release…
Sprint has signed a strategic partnership with technology solutions provider CalAm to deliver intelligent telematics devices and software applications, along with CalAmp iOn Device-as-a-Service (DaaS) subscription services. The relationship further expands Sprint’s range of connected car, fleet and asset management services for enterprise and business customers, the carrier said. Through Sprint Curiosity IoT, a distributed and virtualized…
Telecoms vendor Huawei has partnered with Chinese agricultural technology supplier XAG on a series of experiments to explore the application of 5G and AI in agriculture. XAG is also an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) manufacturer, producing drones, alongside internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI)l tools for farming. The pair have worked together on…
“It’s like a secret recipe,” says Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at German firm Software AG, when asked about why the car industry is not crowing, yet, about its paint-shop analytics solution, developed with German robot maker Dürr, and rolled out by at least two prominent – unnamed, but not hard to guess – German car…
California-based software developer FogHorn provides edge intelligence software for industrial and commercial IoT applications. The company has signed with auto-parts maker ADVICS to deploy its edge compute software to enable real-time analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) as part of its “smart factory transition”. It is also working with German car maker Porsche to develop a…
Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel is currently focusing on the development of internet of things applications to expand its presence in this segment, local newspaper Economic Times reported Sundi Raman, head of digital products and IoT for Airtel Business, as saying. Raman said that India was a good market for the development of an IoT ecosystem.…
BehrTech is a Toronto-based industrial IoT connectivity provider claiming a “disruptive” streak in the burgeoning low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking market. The company has just issued a (privately commissioned, independently researched) report that says its novel telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) technology is better than LoRaWAN. Indeed, it claims its technology, called MIOTY, is better than any of…
