Northumbrian Water picks Connexin for LoRaWAN

26 July 2024

Connexin has been selected by Northumbrian Water for its advanced water metering infrastructure (AMI) framework contract.

Connexin will manage the supply and connectivity of over 900,000 smart meters over across the North East of England supply region which serves a 2.7 million-person population, including the urban areas of Tyneside, Wearside and Teesside, and rural areas in Northumberland and County Durham.

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61% of NHS staff believe in digital solutions

25 July 2024

New research from Virgin Media O2 Business reveals three in five (61%) NHS staff believe new digital solutions could help at least 18.6 million more patients receive treatment annually.

The ‘Bridging the digital gap in UK healthcare’ report shows nearly two fifths (38%) believe that new digital tools could help the NHS to reach 3-5% more patients each day – potentially benefitting at least 51,000 more people daily.

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Cellhire supports BBC General Election coverage with IoT

12 July 2024

Cellhire played a major role in the BBC’s coverage of the 2024 UK General Election. The company deployed its ‘Count Cam’ packages powered with Cellhire’s IoT connectivity solution to 369 vote-counting locations across the UK to allow the BBC to live-stream footage as the election results unfolded during the night of July 4-5.

As votes were tallied and results announced, thanks to Cellhire the BBC was able to provide continuous coverage throughout the night, employing a combination of reporters, crews, freelancers and state-of-the-art streaming solutions.

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BT Group implements ‘cell sleep’ across EE mobile sites

02 July 2024

BT Group has implemented energy-saving ‘cell sleep’ technology across its EE mobile sites nationwide, following successful trials in each of the UK’s home nations.

‘Cell sleep’ software works by putting certain 4G LTE capacity carriers to sleep when the capacity is not needed, based on predicted periods of low traffic which have been established for each site through machine learning.

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