Australian IoT hardware maker Binary Beer and Canadian IoT software company Kegshoe, specialising in keg trackers and tracking solutions for breweries, respectively, have teamed up to sell their products in …
James Blackman
James Blackman
James Blackman has been writing about the technology and telecoms sectors for over a decade. He has edited and contributed to a number of European news outlets and trade titles. He has also worked at telecoms company Huawei, leading media activity for its devices business in Western Europe. He is based in London.
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Various updates from LoRa-land, and beyond… Semtech, the owner of LoRa tech and licensing, said environmental IoT provider ICT International, is using LoRa-based devices on LoRaWAN networks to improve urban …
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Narrowband IoT company Sigfox has teamed up with Irish-American financial software company Stripe to offer IoT subscriptions for purchase online. Stripe is providing the online payment infrastructure. Customers can choose …
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US satellite broadband provider Viasat has agreed a deal to acquire UK-based counterpart Inmarsat for $7.3 billion. The combined company will integrate their spectrum, satellite, and terrestrial assets as a …
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The micromobility market, covering electric bikes and scooters (e-scooters), will grow at a compound rate (CAGR) of 16 percent per year to 2027, from around $3 billion in 2019 to …
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Small Cell Forum (SCF) is to develop a new set of private 5G ‘blueprints’ for enterprise and industry, to build on parallel work already completed by the likes of the …
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The city of Portland in Maine, in the US, has migrated its smart street lights onto a cloud management platform (CMS) from California-headquartered Dhyan Networks and Technologies, and away from …
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Industrial 5G and IoT – or at least, the digital pyrotechnics sprung from 5G and IoT networks – can help the planet reduce carbon emissions, reckons the tech and telecoms …
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The Scotland 5G Centre, a government-sponsored research centre with the universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, has opened a private 5G network testbed in Dumfries in the south of Scotland, to …
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Insecurity affects us all, whether we own several smart home devices, hundreds of connected cameras, or thousands of industrial sensors. In fact, a report by Cybersecurity Ventures estimates that cybercrime …
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Semiconductor company Morse Micro, developing Wi-Fi HaLow for low-power mid-range IoT connectivity, has confirmed its various chipsets, modules, and reference designs have been certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance as part …
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Red Hat and Intel have extended their Industry 4.0 partnership to combine their open source software and industrial edge hardware to spur the smart manufacturing and smart energy sectors. The …
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IoT module maker and service provider Telit is offering five- and 10-year prepaid airtime plans on its new mobile core network Telit NExT, the company has said. Telit is offering …
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Swiss-based u-blox is working with SoftBank to develop common global navigation satellite system (GNSS) augmentation services for Japan, the US, and Europe. The pair have signed a memorandum of understanding …
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This article is continued from a previous entry, covering key NB-IoT challenges 1-5 (available here) and key NB-IoT challenges 6-10 (available here). All of these articles are taken from a …
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This article is continued from a previous entry, covering key NB-IoT challenges 1-5 – which is available here. Both articles are taken from a new report, entitled NB-IoT – what …
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Note, this article is taken from a new report, entitled NB-IoT – what has gone wrong, and when will it go right? The full report is available here. A webinar …
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Italian mobile operator TIM has drafted in local networking outfit Athonet and local system integrator Alsacom, alongside US pair JMA Wireless and Qualcomm, to establish a private 5G test network …
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This article is continued from a previous entry, covering key NB-IoT deployments 1-5, which is available here. Both are taken from a new report, entitled NB-IoT – what has gone …
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US IoT platform provider Zyter is working with Qualcomm, and other Qualcomm partners in the San Diego-based chipmakers smart cities accelerator project, on a couple of private LTE installations in …
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Note, this article has been updated from the 27/10/21 version, which suggested 57% of electric meters in Europe will be connected to NB-IoT and LTE-M. This is wrong, the stated …
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Ericsson has launched a new “software toolbox” to “guarantee” consistently low latency and high reliability in 5G networks for time-critical applications. Its new Time-Critical Communication product, available via a new …
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Note, this article is taken from a new report, entitled NB-IoT – what has gone wrong, and when will it go right? The full report is available here. A webinar …
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Private networking company Celona has announced it has deployed a private LTE network in the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band in the US on the grounds at California State University, Stanislaus. …
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Indian mobile operator Vodafone Idea Limited, doing business as Vi, is working with Italy-based private 5G specialist Athonet to test 5G-based solutions for Industry 4.0, and related disciplines. The partnership …