Worth Noting: Telefónica teams up with Grupo Alva for 5G IoT predictive analytics Telefónica Tech, the digital services arm of Telefónica, has hooked up with Spanish engineering services company Grupo Álava to develop and launch a predictive analytics package for Industry 4.0 applications, exploiting private 5G, cloud and edge computing, as well as big data analytics driven by machine learning algorithms. The new predictive analytics will allow industrial companies to digitize critical assets and maintenance processes with large-scale sensing and connectivity, according to the two companies. Telefónica added that 4G and 5G componentry will be available to enterprises as part of the predictive analytics offer on both private and public network infrastructure, with edge-based private LTE/5G networks built using “several…