Telit Cinterion to Unleash AI and 5G for Heavy Industry at CES 2026

IRVINE, CA – January 05, 2026 – As the tech world prepares to descend on Las Vegas for CES 2026, IoT solutions provider Telit Cinterion is set to showcase a suite of innovations that pushes intelligence to the most demanding industrial frontiers. The company will unveil new solutions that merge powerful 5G connectivity with sophisticated AI at the edge, leveraging key partnerships with industry giants Nokia and NVIDIA to target sectors like mining and manufacturing.

At its booth, the company will demonstrate how its integrated technologies are designed to create smarter, more secure, and highly autonomous industrial environments. The announcements signal a strategic focus on providing end-to-end ecosystems that move beyond simple connectivity, offering the complex orchestration of hardware, software, and AI needed for the next wave of industrial digital transformation.

"CES is where innovation meets opportunity," said Martin Krona, President Services and Solutions at Telit Cinterion. "Our demos show how AI, 5G, and edge intelligence can transform operations—from mining to manufacturing—while delivering the security and scalability enterprises need to thrive."

Digitizing the Depths: A Cognitive Mine in a Box

A highlight of Telit Cinterion’s showcase is the Nokia Cognitive Digital Mining Demo. This collaboration introduces the Nokia Black Box, a ruggedized, AI-embedded device designed to withstand the harsh conditions of heavy industry. This unit serves as the core of Nokia’s Cognitive Digital Mine (CDM) platform, a system engineered to turn a physical mine into an intelligent, interconnected digital twin.

Integrated with multiple Telit Cinterion advanced modules and a powerful NVIDIA GPU, the Black Box enables real-time data processing and decision-making directly at the operational site. The CDM platform aims to create a holistic, AI-native view of mining operations, allowing assets to sense, think, and act with increasing autonomy. This capability addresses critical industry challenges by providing real-time data on environmental conditions like dust and vibration, optimizing equipment schedules, and enabling predictive maintenance to prevent costly downtime.

This technology is not merely conceptual. Nokia has been developing the CDM platform with industry partners, including a proof-of-concept deployment at Vale's Carajás mine, the world's largest iron ore open-pit operation. Further testing at the Sandvik Test Mine, supported by a Nokia 5G private network, has demonstrated the platform's potential to enhance autonomous operations and remote monitoring, underscoring the real-world viability of these advanced digital mining solutions.

Powering Visual Intelligence with NVIDIA

Beyond mining, Telit Cinterion is demonstrating its deviceWISE® Visual Intelligence platform, which brings high-performance AI to industrial automation and computer vision applications. This solution is supercharged by a comprehensive suite of NVIDIA AI infrastructure, running locally for maximum performance and security.

The platform leverages NVIDIA Metropolis, a framework for building AI-powered video analytics, alongside NVIDIA NIM (NVIDIA Inference Microservices). NIM provides pre-built, optimized microservices that allow for the rapid deployment of complex AI models, such as vision language models, directly at the edge. This means tasks like automated quality inspection on a production line or real-time object detection for safety monitoring can be executed instantly, without the latency of sending data to the cloud.

Powering the development of such applications is hardware like the NVIDIA DGX Spark, a compact AI supercomputer that allows developers to prototype and fine-tune massive AI models locally. By integrating these powerful NVIDIA tools, Telit Cinterion is enabling industries to deploy sophisticated, real-time computer vision and AI-driven automation with greater flexibility and control over their data.

An End-to-End Ecosystem in a Crowded Market

Telit Cinterion’s announcements position it as a comprehensive enabler in a competitive industrial IoT market populated by cloud computing giants like AWS and Microsoft, industrial automation leaders such as Siemens and Rockwell Automation, and specialized connectivity providers. The company's strategy is to differentiate itself by offering a complete, integrated stack—from the enterprise-grade wireless modules embedded in devices to secure global connectivity services and edge-to-cloud orchestration platforms.

This end-to-end approach aims to solve a critical pain point for enterprises: complexity. By providing a more holistic solution, the company helps original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and enterprises reduce their time to market, simplify global deployments, and build scalable, future-ready IoT ecosystems. The partnerships with Nokia and NVIDIA are central to this strategy, allowing Telit Cinterion to offer best-in-class technologies for specific, high-value industrial applications rather than trying to build every component in-house.

This positions the company not just as a component supplier but as a strategic partner in digital transformation, capable of delivering the secure, high-performance infrastructure required for mission-critical operations.

Riding the Wave of Industrial Transformation

The innovations being showcased at CES 2026 are timed to meet a surging market demand. The industrial 5G market alone is projected to grow exponentially, with some forecasts predicting it will exceed $140 billion by 2030, expanding at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 27%. This rapid adoption is driven by the need for the ultra-low latency and high reliability that 5G provides for real-time automation and robotics.

Simultaneously, the market for Edge AI in industrial automation is exploding, expected to reach over $260 billion by 2031. This trend reflects a fundamental shift towards processing data at its source to enable faster decisions, enhance data privacy, and ensure operational resilience, especially in remote environments where cloud connectivity may be unreliable. By converging 5G connectivity with powerful edge AI, Telit Cinterion is aligning its portfolio directly with the core technological currents driving the next generation of industrial efficiency, safety, and autonomy.