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Busy UnaBiz buys Netherlands-based IoT tracking firm Sensatag

IoT solution provider UnaBiz has acquired Sensatag, a five year-old Netherlands-based provider of low-power industrial IoT tracking solutions, for an undisclosed fee. Sensatag has a decent line in Sigfox trackers; Singapore-based UnaBiz, meanwhile, is also in the running to buy Sigfox, as final bids...

Hybrid IoT by vertical market – and how Sidewalk and Helium have blurred the lines

Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights, Hybrid Low-Power IoT – How The IoT Industry Is Balancing Function And Efficiency. The report is available here, or by clicking on the image at the bottom of the page....

Backers back, bidders talk – the latest in the Sigfox saga as sale deadline looms

Last update from us on the Sigfox “soap opera” (someone else's words), almost / perhaps, before the credits roll at the end of next week on its latest tangled episode (or the whole tragic series) – and as Enterprise IoT Insights breaks from straight...

UnaBiz ‘in pole position’ to rescue Sigfox ‘for operators’ – Semtech, Actility in contention

Singapore-based UnaBiz is in “pole position” to pick up the tech assets of troubled IoT firm Sigfox, in receivership, as a number of other groups and organisations also prepare bids before the auction process closes on February 25. Others in the frame include US...

The trend for amped-up cross-breed IoT – and tension with stripped-back pure-breed IoT

Note, this article forms the introduction to a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights, Hybrid Low-Power IoT – How The IoT Industry Is Balancing Function And Efficiency. The report is available here, or by clicking on the image below. Is there a trend...

Ubiik intros dual-mode Release-15 LTE-M/NB-IoT small cell for industrial IoT

Taiwanese industrial IoT provider Ubiik has released a Release 15 level dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT unit that can operate as a small cell or access point. It is pitching the product to mobile network operators and private LTE network providers, supplying industrial enterprises. The...

Sigfox placed into receivership in France – with six months to find buyers, save jobs

Sigfox has been placed into receivership in France, with a six month window to find a new owner. The company’s chief executive, Jeremy Prince, instructed the Toulouse Commercial Court to open the procedure yesterday (January 26), to place Sigfox, as well as local Sigfox...

‘The last thing holding IoT back’ – Nokia and Nordic streamline IoT patent licences

Nokia and Nordic Semiconductor are to make Nokia-owned Standard Essential Patent (SEP) licences available with the purchase of cellular IoT hardware from the Norway-based chip and module maker. The cellular IoT industry has moved systematically over the past 12 months, or so, to tackle...

Silicon Labs intros SoCs for edge ML – with Matter, Zigbee, OpenThread, Bluetooth

Chip-maker Silicon Labs has introduced two families of 2.4 GHz wireless system-on-chips (SoCs), featuring integrated AI/ML accelerators and support, variously, for short-range protocols including Matter, Zigbee, OpenThread, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and Bluetooth mesh. The Austin-based firm said integrated (tinyML) AI/ML hardware acceleration in the...

Seven steps to address IoT security, by PSA Certified and co (Reader Forum)

As industries, businesses and consumers become increasingly reliant on the connected economy, its potential as the bedrock of digital transformation continues to grow. Yet with great opportunity also comes great risk. As IoT adoption accelerates, so too does potential for exploitation from bad actors. To...

LoRa Alliance adds new self-test capabilities LCTT pre-certification tool

The LoRa Alliance has added a number of new testing capabilities to its LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT), for device makers to pre-test the performance of IoT solutions before seeking formal certification from a LoRa Alliance Authorized Test House (ATH). New capabilities in the...

Ultra-cheap, long-life, green-by-design – Sigfox teases biodegradable IoT at $0.30

Note, in the week following publication of this article, Sigfox filed for bankruptcy. Coverage of receivership procedings against Sigfox can be found here; read on to hear about the kind of big ideas that, perhaps, undermined Sigfox in the end – but which also...

Wirepas lands indoor tracking, monitoring deals – including key contract with Orange

IoT connectivity company Wirepas has secured a couple of notable deals, including with Orange Business Services (OBS), the enterprise IT and system integration division of French operator Orange, which will offer the Finnish firm’s proprietary low-power Wirepas Massive mesh technology for large-scale indoor asset...

Qualcomm seeks to remake physical retail – as touchless, frictionless and filled with IoT

Qualcomm Technologies has identified physical retail as a key growth sector for its IoT chip business. The sector has been severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, it said, and requires urgent and drastic attention. Retailers can bring a new level of customer experience and...

Semtech, Lacuna Space redouble satellite IoT efforts to extend LoRa to whole planet

Satellite IoT is everywhere, suddenly. Further to Inmarsat’s L-band satellite IoT solution with energy firm RWE in the UK, and LoRaWAN outfit Senet’s arrangement on satellite IoT tracking with Eutelsat yesterday (January 12), California-based chip maker Semtech Corporation has announced a further initiative with...

Sony, Kigen, FloLIVE prep IoT solution for hybrid public-private 5G, LTE, NB-IoT

London-based startup FloLIVE, offering global 5G connectivity for high-performance IoT, has combined with SIM specialist Kigen and chip maker Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony; formerly Altair)) on a new iSIM-based cellular IoT module. The solution embeds the FloLIVE roaming solution onto Sony’s Altair ALT1250 cellular...

Senet and Eutelsat combine on “first and only true-global” LoRaWAN IoT network

US LoRaWAN network operator and cloud provider Senet has partnered with European satellite operator Eutelsat Communications, together with US-based LoRaWAN and GPS tracking solutions provider TrakAssure, and UK-based LoraWAN (and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi mesh) network provider Wyld Networks to integrate terrestrial and satellite LoRaWAN...

Semtech intros LoRa software upgrade to make LoRaWAN more scalable and robust

California-based chipmaker Semtech, which owns and licences the non-cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) LoRa technology and LoRaWAN protocol, has released a software upgrade for LoRa integrated circuits (IC) and gateways to increase network capacity and performance, and enable direct data transmissions from IoT sensors to...

Sigfox teams with chip firms HT Micron, Nowi to tease energy-harvesting IoT module

Ultra-narrowband IoT technology firm Sigfox is working with semiconductor companies Nowi and HT Micron, based in the Netherlands and Brazil respectively, on a new energy harvesting IoT device. It is the French firm’s first time to develop an energy harvesting module for commercial release,...

Technology trends for a smarter, sustainable planet (Semtech on 2022)

There is an increasing requirement for sensing and monitoring technologies to support a more sustainable world. With resources in increasingly short supply, monitoring the use of those resources becomes even more important, whether they’re water, electricity, minerals or crops, to enable the most efficient...

Sequans adds iSIM to Monarch 2 IoT module, starts testing with AT&T and others

IoT chip and module maker Sequans Communications has said its Monarch 2 module, offering dual-band LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity, is available as a GSMA-compliant integrated SIM (iSIM / iUICC) unit. It said the iSIM-enabled Monarch 2 is the first IoT chip to pass third-party...

Updates from LoRa-land – air-quality installs in urban forests, wildfire hotspots, buildings

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 forest management and carbon accounting. ICT International’s “plant physiology devices” are able to monitor...

From cost to value – shifting the economics of IoT security (Reader Forum)

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 will cost the world more than US$6 trillion annually by next year. And as...

Morse Micro confirms Wi-Fi certification of HaLow chips, modules, reference designs

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 of its new Wi-Fi HaLow accreditation scheme. Its new Wi-Fi HaLow reference design is...