Nokia launches new Industry 4.0 apps

Nokia has announced several new applications aimed at “improving worker safety, site security, enhance operational efficiency and secure ‘OT environments’” across mission critical verticals.

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Offered as a service, the products are known as Ascom Ofelia, Fogsphere, innovaphone PBX & myApps, Nokia Real-time eXtended Reality Multimedia (RXRM), OneLayer, and Redinent.

The applications are deployed via the company’s MX Industrial Edge solution. According to a spokesperson, MXIE “supports ecosystem neutrality, enabling the deployment of applications to help support growing diverse Industry 4.0 needs.”

Discussing functionality of the apps, the spokesperson continued: “The new applications enable digitalisation to increase situational awareness, better deal with incidents, and increase the use of real-time data and knowledge which are key to improving worker safety and site security.

“Ascom Ofelia helps enterprises shift from separate alarm systems to one unified alarm solution. Fogsphere meanwhile, is a comprehensive, multi-modal AI platform to enhance workplace safety, security, and operational intelligence.”

According to figures quoted by the come, global enterprises using private LTE/5G are projected to spend around $6 billion "on industrial applications enabling new use cases and enhancing existing ones" by the end of the decade.

Nokia VP of CNS enterprise campus edge solutions, Stephan Litjens, said: “Keeping workers safe and connected is paramount for enterprises. With the expanded Nokia industrial application catalogue, we are providing a rich choice to help industries improve important Industry 4.0 use cases.”