BROWSING: IoT

Qualcomm combines with STMicro on wireless IoT; completes Sequans deal

Qualcomm Technologies is to integrate its Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/Thread combo system-on-a-chip (SoC), which features on-board compute processing for low-power AI workloads on industrial IoT applications, into STMicroelectronics’ STM32 family of microcontrollers (MCUs). The deal will expand to see other cellular IoT SoCs integrated, as well, and...

Britvic taps Wireless Logic to connect its taps – to streamline logistics, reduce plastic

British soft drinks company Britvic has appointed cellular IoT provider Wireless Logic to provide telemetry data about consumption of drinks from its new digital ‘flavour taps’ in order to streamline logistics, reduce plastic wastage, and improve sustainability. The initiative to connect its new line...

Vodafone and Kigen launch iSIM service to accelerate IoT deployments

UK-headquartered mobile operator Vodafone – or ‘Vodafone IoT’, or ‘Vodafone Business’, perhaps, or ‘Vodafone Business IoT’, as it is written in the press notice – is now connecting commercial integrated SIM (iSIM) chipsets and modules for IoT applications, following airtime integration into mobile security...

The Things Industries claims ‘leap forward’ with new LoRaWAN management gateway

Amsterdam-based IoT specialist The Things Industries has introduced a new managed LoRaWAN gateway to go with its LoRaWAN core network server, and related products and solutions. The product, called The Things Indoor Gateway Pro, is an upgrade to its previous offering, adding ‘pro’ into...

Editorial Webinar: Will RedCap be a boon to 5G and IoT?

Coming in at a lower price point commensurate to its reduced capabilities, it's looking like 5G NR Light can fit a number of relevant, immediate use cases ranging from fixed wireless access (yes, really), to what it was seemingly initially designed to do—bring the...

Global 5G connections exceeds 2 billion at end-Q2

Currently, there are 329 commercial 5G networks worldwide, according to 5G Americas Global 5G connections exceeded 2 billion connections at the end of the second quarter of the year, with the addition of 192 million connections during the period, according to a new report by...

Optimizing connectivity throughout the IoT life cycle

NExT, powered by Telit Cinterion, provides customers with global IoT connectivity plans and intelligent SIM technologies. This solution empowers them to overcome challenges throughout the IoT life cycle. There are three phases to an IoT life cycle: planning, rollout and operation. Each phase comes with...

Verizon supplies 5G and IoT to remote-controlled EV hire service in Las Vegas

Verizon Business has signed a deal with Germany-based automotive technology startup Vay Technology to supply 5G to its rental fleet of remotely operated electric vehicles (EVs) in Las Vegas. The enterprise division of the US carrier is also providing custom IoT data plans, it...

Dimonoff unveils expanded Amotus division: Advanced IoT engineering services and PaaS solutions

Quebec City, Canada, September 24, 2024 – Dimonoff, a global leader in the smart cities market, renowned for its smart lighting control and smart parking management systems, is proud to announce the expansion of its new IoT (Internet of Things) division, Amotus. This division offers...

Big-talking Sateliot raises €10m from flagship VC firm on way to €30m Series B round

Barcelona-based satellite IoT provider Sateliot has raised €10 million from venture capital group Global Portfolio Investments as part of a continuing €30 million Series-B funding round, as covered here, which has also seen interest from IT and defense firm Indra Sistemas, telecoms tower company...

Cellular IoT connections, revenues to almost double by 2030

The number of global cellular IoT connections jumped 24 percent in 2023 to finish the year at 3.3 billion; the number will increase by 88 percent (at a compound growth rate of 10 percent per year) to reach 6.2 billion by 2030. So says...

Qualcomm explains 5G RedCap (Part 2)

5G RedCap supports fewer antennas and frequency bands, reducing device cost and size This is the second part of a two-part story. Read Part 1 here. 5G  reduced capability (RedCap) technology is designed for Internet of Things (IoT) support and IoT environments as it operates primarily in...

Improve global IoT results with Intelsat FlexEnterprise IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing how businesses operate by allowing the collection and analysis of data across many sites and devices in real time. However, for Industrial IoT to work well and the best results to be realized from IoT deployments, organizations...

Qualcomm explains 5G RedCap (Part 1)

5G RedCap (Reduced Capability) technology, a component of 5G-Advanced is key to the evolution of 5G as the technology bridges the capability and complexity gap by offering the capacity and speed needed for use cases that typically do not require the full benefits of...

Vodafone to roll out Microsoft AI software to 68,000 employees

Microsoft said that the generative AI tool will be implemented across Vodafone with the aim of improving productivity, innovation and digital efficiency U.K.-based telco Vodafone has extended its strategic deal with Microsoft to roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot AI software to up to 68,000 Vodafone...

Module maker u-blox intros first terrestrial-and-satellite cellular IoT module 

Swiss IoT module maker u-blox has launched its first combined terrestrial and non-terrestrial network (NTN; satellite) IoT module, the so-called SARA-S528NM10. It uses the firm’s UBX-S52 dual-mode chipset, offering connectivity via LTE-M and NB-IoT on terrestrial cellular networks and NB-IoT on geostationary orbit (GEO)...

China unveils plan to boost mobile IoT sector

China anticipates supporting 3.6 billion mobile IoT connections by 2027 China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has introduced a plan to advance the development of the mobile Internet of Things (IoT) sector in the country, Chinese press reported. This initiative is aimed at enhancing...

Digital transformation transfer news: Arsenal signs NTT Data

In the kind of deal it seems to snaffle up for fun these days, NTT Data has signed a multi-year ‘digital change’ contract with Premier League football club Arsenal FC to provide analytics-based hardware and software tools to underpin and augment the team’s various...

One liners, hard work, and a ‘loss of innocence’ – how the IoT crowd had the last laugh

“I don't have any one-liners for you this time,” says Wienke Giezeman, almost apologetically, as if our periodic chats about the state of the IoT market are supposed to produce zingers and humdingers, and headlines that write themselves. Which they aren’t, even if they...

RedCap IoT shipments to top 80m in five years; eRedCap to take 70% share

Total shipments of reduced-capability (RedCap) 5G IoT modules, offering 5G-based alternatives to mid-range 4G-level LTE Cat-4 and LTE Cat-6 units, will top 80 million over the next five years, in the period to 2029, reckons ABI Research. Further-reduced (‘enhanced’) RedCap (eRedCap) IoT modules, representing...

ABI Research forecasts 80 Million RedCap IoT module shipments by 2029

The RedCap silicon market will become a 'hyper-competitive space,' according to ABI Research Drawing from findings in its recent 5G RedCap Standards and Chipsets for IoT report, ABI Research has forecasted that IoT 5G Reduced Capacity (RedCap) module shipments will reach to 80 million...

Huawei explores the use of RedCap in various scenarios

A Huawei spokesperson highlighted that RedCap technology can reduce 5G NR module costs by 80% Chinese vendor Huawei has been exploring a broad range of scenarios for the implementation of 5G RedCap, also known as 5G NR Light technology, beyond wireless sensors and smart wearables,...

Module maker u-blox teams-up with Wireless Logic, intros ultra low-power GNSS tracker

Swiss IoT module maker u-blox is working with UK-based IoT connectivity provider Wireless Logic to combine and integrate their wares in simpler and better IoT solutions for IoT developers, they have said. They have proclaimed a “strategic partnership” to deliver “seamless, robust, and scalable”...

Yorkshire Water appoints Netmore to deploy 1.3m LoRaWAN smart water meters

UK water utility Yorkshire Water has appointed Netmore Group to swap-out 1.3 million water meters across the Yorkshire region for smart LoRaWAN-connected meters over a five year period. Sweden-based LoRaWAN network operator Netmore Group, with infrastructure operations across Europe and the US, and a...