‘Manufacturers want proof’ – Ericsson looks to bottle the fizz and pop of industrial IoT

Industrial IoT’s biggest problem? The fear of failure in a risk adverse industry. So says Ericsson, which recommends a two-pronged approach to spur takeup among overly-cautious manufacturing companies. The first fix is to drive starter IoT with proven low-level sensor solutions; the second is to drive advanced industrial automation with higher-end networking and analytics. One…

Three LTE ‘campus’ networks – DT debuts public-private LTE in Austria, Czech, Hungary

Deutsche Telekom has public-private ‘campus’ networking setups with various customers, offering a kind of proto-slicing, as a precursor to industrial 5G. It has so far announced deals with German lighting company OSRAM, German car parts maker ZF Group, and the RWTH research institute at Aachen University. LTE-based ‘campus’ networks, delivered by operators and configured correctly,…