Digital Industries

Digital twin technology start-up Samp secured €6 million in financing to cover expansion and an international push of an AI-based system it states can revolutionise management and maintenance of sensitive industrial infrastructures.

China initiated moves to increase the use of mobile IoT in automotive, healthcare and smart home settings to advance digital transformation along with uncovering fresh industrialisation options.

Orange Business partnered with Grifols Egypt to provide its services in setting up a new co-location data centre, a project designed to improve treatments and the delivery of medicines to Egyptian patients.

Ericsson backed LTE and 5G to deliver significant benefits to the rail industry spanning operational efficiency, safety and improved customer service as it pressed the case for updating systems running on a railway-specific version of GSM.

Ericsson unit Vonage inked a deal with software giant SAP to develop enhanced digital enterprise applications using the latter’s AI offering and the telecoms vendor’s API platform.  

Ooredoo Kuwait outlined a plan to jointly develop digital technology for the transportation sector with specialist OWS Automotive, a move positioned by the operator as being aligned to the country’s national development plan.

Research company IoT Analytics predicted a slight decline in the rate of growth in the number of connected devices for the sector in 2024 as enterprises keep a watchful eye over expenditure due to various global headwinds.