UK-based Arm has introduced a new cloud-based IoT design system to enable software development for IoT without the need for physical silicon. The new offering, called Arm Total Solutions for IoT, brings together the software and hardware design processes, into a single virtual co-innovation...
Nordic Semiconductor is now offering embedded machine learning (ML) software with its cellular-based IoT chipset portfolio. The move continues its partnership with US-based Edge Impulse, which makes miniaturised ML (‘TinyML’) tools for chips in resource-constrained IoT modules. The pair announced TinyML support for the...
Vodafone has deployed iSIM-based NB-IoT-connected sensor units, loosely resembling the printable iSIM tracker solution it developed with Altair and Arm for pharma firm Bayer last year, along the UK's southern coast. The new project is to help academics, businesses, and local authorities bring new...
He-said / she-said; the finger-pointing between the rank and file in the cellular NB-IoT sector is futile, and wrong anyway. So says Adarsh Krishnan, research director at ABI Research, one of the better commentators on the subject. If we are to play the blame...
The China model for NB-IoT – state-sponsored incentives, flat-rated airtime pricing, commoditization of hardware – is not all it is cracked up to be, reckon some. Market stats, from various analyst groups, suggest the lion’s share (anecdotally, 90-95 percent) of the NB-IoT market, as...
Swedish tracker company C Security Systems has appointed Orange Business Services, together with its bandmates in the recently-formed IoT Continuum initiative, to accelerate delivery of LTE-M trackers in Europe. C Security Systems, headquartered in Stockholm, specializes in tracking devices for boats, pets, and agricultural...
Note this article is taken from a forthcoming editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights on the state of the NB-IoT market; the report will appear here next week. An Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on the same topic, with panellists from BICS, Nordic Semiconductor, and...
France-based chipmaker Sequans has partnered with roaming provider iBASIS to integrate embedded SIM (eSIM/eUICC) technology and global LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity with its Monarch 2 GM02S NEKTAR development kit (EVK). The pair claimed the arrangement provides “global cellular connectivity for worldwide deployments of massive...
IoT connectivity company Ingenu has announced a plan to launch 72 satellites into space to support low-power machine communications for the smart energy, manufacturing, agriculture, cities, logistics, oil and gas, and mining sectors. The San Diego firm has struck a deal with Arizona-based Phantom...
Semiconductor maker Semtech has announced a new LoRa-based solution, combining a power-efficient microcontroller and an edge tracker module, that harvests ambient energy from the environment to preclude the need for a battery completely. The California-based firm called the solution “maintenance free” and “zero carbon”,...
International cellular provider BICS has said it has NB-IoT roaming coverage in a dozen countries, with new NB-IoT deals being signed at a faster rate than on LTE-M, and a loose target of “more than 20” NB-IoT roaming contracts by the year-end. The Belgium-based...
Truphone has combined with chipset maker Sony Semiconductor Israel and SIM specialist Kigen on an integrated SIM (iSIM) solution for global IoT deployments. Altair and Kigen have worked separately to offer a proprietary version of iSIM technology for remote provisioning of cellular IoT devices...
Massive IoT? What a joke. Except no one in the business of massive IoT is laughing, because no one has given up on it. And because everyone is too busy trying to make it work. For the cellular industry, that means getting NB-IoT (and,...
The clamour from the telecoms industry for governments and regulators to ease and encourage further 5G rollout is getting louder. Following on the heels of Vodafone’s call-to-arms last week in the UK, for the government to write targets and incentives for 5G and IoT...
UK-based chip design company Arm has announced new software architecture and hardware platforms for emerging software-defined automotive systems, including for driver assistance, infotainment, electrified powertrains, and ultimately for autonomous vehicles. The new releases are designed to enable the automotive industry to build powerful new...
Siemens-owned Mendix has announced “massive enhancements” to its low-code software development platform to enable IoT ‘makers’ to assemble and monetise new digital products. It has declared prescriptive software-as-a-service applications a “thing of the past” as drag-and-drop, non-specialist, low-code software development starts to drive industrial...
TIM has struck a deal via its IoT solutions division Olivetti with engineering firm SECO to produce IoT solutions for Italian enterprises – worth €50m to SECO and €225m to TIM over the next three years.
Nordic Semiconductor has established a ‘global Wi-Fi hub’ in Hyderabad, in India, with 40 R&D staff and a busy recruitment drive. The Norway based IoT chip maker wants to make the new site a ‘centre of excellence’ for R&D, it said, as it diversifies...
Qualcomm has launched its latest drone platform, and its first (and “the world’s first”) to introduce 5G and AI into the mix. The new Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G platform and reference design will spur the industrial market to deploy autonomous drones for infrastructure inspections,...
AT&T has teamed up with Belfast-based SIM specialist Kigen, spun-out of chip design company Arm at the end of last year, to allow cellular IoT device makers to source integrated SIM solutions earlier in the manufacturing process. This includes at the point of contract...
California-based semiconductor maker Semtech has announced it is working with IoT developer and engineering services company Oxit, based in North Carolina, to develop smart energy solutions for LoRaWAN networks. Semtech said it will support Oxit’s “intelligent energy initiatives” by providing LoRa-based low-power wide-area (LPWA)...
A new report by analyst company ABI Research says the growing breadth of IoT devices and use cases, combined with additional radio spectrum and protocols, is creating more complexity in designing and integrating antennas into products. IoT antenna shipments will jump to 7.2 billion...
The magic in private cellular networks comes with the radio, and not with the core, says Nokia. And the magic in the radio cannot be so easily copied or imitated; it takes decades of graft, it says, honed through five generations of cellular at...
KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom, flush from an injection of new funds from Hitachi and Sony Group, has launched a new platform to allow IoT developers to connect devices using Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and satellite connectivity, as well as low-power wide-area (LPWA) cellular technologies, including...
