NEWS
Brandenburg
government
acquires
Deutsche
Telekom’s high-
speed network
Huawei and Telefónica
Germany launch NB-IoT
Smart Meter POC
B
randenburg has placed a major, eight-
figure telecommunications order with
T-Systems. Deutsche Telekom will provide
the infrastructure and components for
telephony and the wide-area network of
the state’s administration. Sites can be
connected with up to 10 gigabits in future,
up to 10 times more bandwidth than was
previously available. The contract was signed
for a term of five years, with an optional
extension to eight years. Patrick Molck-Ude,
responsible for telecommunications business
with corporate customers at Deutsche
Telekom, said: “The state is now getting a
high-security all-IP network. It is not only
faster, but will also serve as the foundation for
digitalising administration. Deutsche Telekom
is implementing unified communications
in Brandenburg, for example, a new
communication technology that enables
teamwork via conference call, video and chat,
as well as online collaboration on documents.”
Josef Nußbaum, first Managing Director of
Brandenburg’s internal IT service provider
ZIT-BB, said, “By signing this contract
for the evolution of LVN 5.0, the state’s
administrative network, we will ensure that
the IT infrastructure of Brandenburg’s
state administration meets current and
future demands for performance from
the functional, security and economic
perspectives. For instance, we are upgrading
our telephony technology to pure IP-based
voice solutions for the state administration.
We are also ensuring the necessary high-
availability, high-performance connection
of mobile ports to the state’s administrative
network, to serve the increasing use of
mobile data transfer and mobile apps in the
state administration.”
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INTELLIGENTCIO
H
uawei, Telefónica Germany, and IoT
provider Q-loud jointly launched
a smart meter proof of concept (POC)
based on NarrowBand Internet of Things
(NB-IoT) for Munich Airport.
IoT increases efficiency and
enables new services
Insufficient wireless signals in buildings
and underground has limited the
application of sensors in various fields
across the airport, making it challenging
to replace analogue and manual readings
of electricity, water or gas meters.
However, the trial-based introduction of
NB-IoT potentially opens up completely
new fields for the application of sensors
at Munich Airport.
Munich Airport, together with Huawei
and Telefónica Germany, has created
a highly intelligent solution that uses
NB-IoT to bring older analogue systems
into the digital world. The EnergyCam,
a camera system developed by Q-loud,
can record meter readings of traditional
roller meters, analyse images and
recognise displayed meter readings
through integrated software and
transfer the data in digital form through
NB-IoT in the Telefónica network to
Huawei’s OceanConnect IoT platform.
This solution enables the airport IT
department to quickly access meter data
for rapid analysis.
For organisations such as Munich
Airport, selecting a suitable technological
infrastructure requires consideration of
many factors. For example, the networking
technology required should ideally cover
the total area of 1,575 hectares, around
2,200 football pitches. In addition, it
cannot disrupt the air traffic control
system in any way for instance.
Johann Götz, responsible for software
and infrastructure development at
Munich Airport, stated: “One important
requirement for the current ongoing
digital development of the airport
has already been established: the IT
department and technology department
need to join efforts if the physical world
on premises is to be connected to the
Internet and become part of the Internet
of Things.”
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