Ericsson and Korea’s SK Holdings C&C (parent company of SK Telecom) have signed a MoU to develop a global collaborative ICT ecosystem, covering global IoT platforms, emerging ICT services and convergence security solutions, but it’s hard to find much information about Ericsson’s IoT platforms. Under the terms of the MoU, the two companies plan to […]
Do we need an Internet of Skills?
It seems that everyday some company or other is trying to stamp its mark on the market with a new Internet of ‘something’. A few years ago Cisco came up with the idea of the Internet of Everything and has done a great job of getting the concept into common parlance. Now Ericsson has casually […]
Ericsson demos 5G innovation for IoT
Ericsson has announced a 5G air interface initiative that it says will improve reliability and performance and address IoT and ‘Internet of Skills’ applications, as well as catering for the growing smartphone population. In what it says is an industry first Ericsson is demonstrating “new advanced multipoint connectivity with distributed MIMO” that “connects 5G mobile […]
How subscription services can monetise IoT
The world of IoT has been closely linked to the development of a service economy: in a world where everything is connected, monitored and spitting out data you can charge for its usage rather than selling it and forgetting about it. Ericsson has taken this concept one step further positing the emergence of an experience […]
Wellness, wearables and the quantified self
There have been countless studies that have sought to assess, objectively, the health of populations, now Ericsson has undertaken a comprehensive study to determine individuals’—totally subjective—assessments of their own ‘wellness’ and to link this to their attitudes towards wearables, self-quantification and the Internet as aids to health and wellbeing. The findings are reported in an […]
Indosat teams with Ericsson to offer M2M platform in Indonesia
Indonesian mobile operator, Indosat, and Ericsson have launched a cloud-based Machine-to-Machine (M2M) platform in Indonesia, the Ericsson Device Connection Platform (DCP). Indosat is a subsidiary of Qatar based Ooredoo and is the first member of Ooredoo Group to launch the platform. Ooredoo says its companies in Qatar, Algeria and Tunisia are scheduled to follow later […]
NetComm bullish on M2M prospects
Australian manufacturer of cellular M2M products, NetComm Wireless (ASX: NTC) has released its results for the six months to 31 December 2014 saying they reflect “the continued evolution of NetComm into a leading M2M company.” CEO and managing director, David Stewart, said: “With a number of attractive strategic relationships and new business opportunities globally, NetComm […]
Bridge Alliance choose Ericsson for single SIM multinational M2M
Bridge Alliance, an alliance of 36 mobile operators from Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, has chosen to deploy the Ericsson Device Connectivity Platform (DCP) multi-domestic solution for the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling any original equipment manufacturer (OEM), enterprise or service provider to deploy IoT solutions across multiple countries. According to Ericsson, “With Ericsson DCP […]
Global M2M Association and Ericsson to demo IoT at MWC
Ericsson and the Global M2M Association (GMA), a cooperation of six international tier-one operators in the M2M market – Deutsche Telekom, Orange, TeliaSonera, Telecom Italia Mobile, Bell Canada and SoftBank – will showcase at Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona their new Multi-Domestic Service based on the Ericsson Device Connection Platform (DCP). Ericsson says this […]
Ericsson envisages Internet of really big things: ships
Ericsson argues that the maritime industry lags behind other transport industries in its use of information and communications technology, despite the fact that ships carried an estimated total of 9.6 billion tons of cargo in 2013 – around 80 percent of global trade by volume and over 70 percent of global trade by value, and […]
