
Communications provider Nokia and Telit Cinterion, an end-to-end IoT solutions enabler, announced a technology collaboration intended to provide mission-critical and heavy industries with a new generation of mission-critical communication and in-network compute capabilities. Nokia will integrate Telit Cinterion’s latest cellular, satellite, and Wi-Fi communication modules with its Cognitive Digital Mine (CDM) platform, with the aim of minimizing downtime and emissions while maximizing worker safety and productivity in oil and gas, logistics, mining, and other industries.
Nokia’s CDM platform uses AI and digital twins to enable use cases such as edge computing that make real-time decisions about vehicles and other equipment in the field. The heart of the CDM platform is the Black Box, a ruggedized compute and connectivity engine designed for extreme industrial environments. The Black Box uses AI for tasks such as dynamically bonding dual 5G links, switching across triple Wi-Fi radios, or falling back to satellite, all based on SLA requirements. This optimization is intended to ensure that edge computing and other applications have ultra-resilient, high-performance connectivity for autonomous vehicles and other mission-critical applications.
Under the collaboration, Nokia integrates Telit Cinterion’s latest modules for 5G NR, Wi-Fi 6/7, and Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN). This enables a new class of intelligent, self-optimizing machines and systems capable of sensing, deciding, and acting locally, even when disconnected from the cloud.
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