Industry 4.0 warriors (and worriers) – auto, pharma, logistics top McKinsey robotics poll
A new survey by global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company says robotics and automation systems will account for 25 percent of capital spending by industrial companies over the next five years, mostly for...
Verizon deploys private 5G for Deloitte Industry 4.0 showcase at Wichita State
Verizon has deployed a private 5G network at the 5,500 square-metre ‘smart factory’ at Wichita State University in Kansas, in the US. The showcase facility, dubbed Smart Factory @ Wichita, is on the university’s science research campus. It is sponsored and “convened” by the Industry 4.0 consultancy group at UK-headquartered professional services outfit Deloitte. Verizon Business, the US operator’s enterprise division, said...
“It is still a bit of a zoo” – BT sets up as Industry 4.0 keeper and private 5G leader
Contrary to the popular narrative among new telco upstarts that traditional mobile operators will be left behind in the Industry 4.0 race – on the grounds they are entrenched and parochial, geared for box-shifting and hobbled by local assets – UK-based BT says the opposite is true: that its private 5G proposition is differentiated precisely because of its legacy resources. It has a broader spectrum portfolio with which to spring...
1NCE promises to “disrupt” IoT industry again with free and easy IoT software tools
Cellular IoT provider 1NCE has said it wants to repeat its trick with flat-rate global IoT pricing to also “disrupt” the IoT industry with free device and cloud management software. At CES in Las Vegas, the firm has...
AMI specialist Ubiik wins ‘biggest’ IoT gig in Taiwan, targets global private LTE market
Taiwanese IoT metering company Ubiik has won a $17 million tender from Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) for the deployment of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system to host 450,000 additional smart meters. It is the company’s fourth consecutive AMI-tender win in Taiwan, it said, and “Taiwan’s largest IoT project”. The deal puts it on track to have over one million meters under management by 2024. Ubiik has also...
IoT tracking in the supply chain industry – the lowest start and the biggest finish?
Note, this is the foreword from a new report on IoT tracking in the supply chain industry; the report is linked here and (repeatedly) in the article below – and also in the images at the bottom. The title of this...
IoT market for condition monitoring jumps as tech talk gives way to business focus
Condition-based monitoring sensors will reach 277 million connections by 2026, says analyst house ABI Research, as the tech-mix to connect them multiplies and flexes, and solution vendors and enterprise users put focus...
Making Industry Smarter | IoT in the supply chain – how IoT grew up and got real, in the hardest sector of them all
Asset tracking is a seminal use case for the IoT market. It is one of the key applications – together with asset monitoring – that underpins the whole IoT movement as it congregates around the supply-chain sector....
Making Industry Smarter | IoT in the supply chain – how IoT grew up and got real, in the hardest sector of them all
Asset tracking is a seminal use case for the IoT market. It is one of the key applications – together with asset monitoring – that underpins the whole IoT movement as it congregates around the supply-chain sector....
Pallet company CHEP takes a long view and a careful road to track 360 million pallets
Enterprise IoT Insights is putting together a report on IoT tracking in the supply-chain industry (in case recent posts have not made that clear), and the discussion has ebbed and flowed about the role of IoT, itself,...
EY and Software AG make deal to combine and unleash ‘apps, devices, data, clouds’
Professional services company Ernst & Young Global (EY) has announced a partnership with Germany-based enterprise data and analytics company Software AG to help enterprises with digital change in India and Germany, initially, rolling out to other markets. The partnership is focused on digitalisation, process management, system and data integration, API management, and IoT data and analytics. EY is providing the industrial knowledge...
Z-Wave source code released – to rival “shiny” Matter, kick-off “incredible” 2023
The Z-Wave Alliance, in charge of developing local-area IoT technology Z-Wave, has released the Z-Wave source code to alliance members on open-source software development platform GitHub. Alongside, the alliance has said Members can now “shape the future” of the protocol under its (OS Work Group) supervision, said the alliance. Canadian IoT firm Exegin Technologies has ported Z-Wave code to third-party silicon, opening members to...