Nordic Semiconductor’s new cellular IoT module, billed as the world’s smallest and lowest power, according to its maker, could “kick-start a new wave” of cellular IoT applications, including in tracking, metering, industrial intelligence, and smart cities.
The Trondheim-based firm said its nRF9160 ‘system-in-package’ (SiP) is...
The European Commission (EC) has reviewed and rated countries in Europe for gender equality in the digital economy. Finland, Sweden, Luxembourg and Denmark came top. Italy, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria came bottom.
Of the big three European economies, the UK ranked in fifth, just behind...
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a consortium of telecommunications industry companies with varying focus areas that meet regularly to implement cellular communication standards. Contrary to what some understand 3GPP to be, they do not enforce these standards, but merely create them. The...
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The company said the IoT network will cover some 3 million hectares across Australia
Australia’s National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) and Goanna Ag announced the rollout of a publicly available LoRaWAN internet of things network for smart irrigation management solutions to Australian cotton growers.
The network...
Data analytics, and the decision-making algorithms that run besides, is the single discipline that will make industry ‘smart’. Everything else – and arguably everything to this point – is just the squally preamble to the giant industrial storm these tools will bring.
The most transformative...
With brand new silicon, a vibrant support network, and a profile burnished in the early IoT rush, LoRa specialist Semtech is looking to spread its wings and rise above the challenge from cellular IoT carriers.
Outside of the IoT space, the US semiconductor outfit has...
Las Vegas said that it aims to deploy smart city solutions under this agreement by mid-2019
The state of Nevada, city of Las Vegas and Japan's NTT Group have reached an agreement to advance and accelerate smart technologies, following a smart city proof-of-concept initiative that...
“The kaleidoscope has been shaken, the pieces are in flux.” It is a phrase written for a different time, and another sphere – a generation ago, which seems like a lifetime, to mark a political transformation, which now seems so slight
Because the future is...
The European Commission (EC) has stepped up its strategy to foster AI in the region, with a four-step plan and a target of €20 billion of private and public investments by the end of 2020, and €20 billion per year afterwards.
The EC will contribute...
Even though it may seem like we are living in a completely connected world, we’re not. And, as the Internet of Things dramatically expands the number and scope of connected devices, the traditional communications connectivity model no longer delivers the kind of flexibility and...
The two companies said they will work together to influence best practices for retailers to minimize risk of cybersecurity threats
U.S. provider internet of things provider Pepper IoT has inked a long-term deal with Swiss digital security firm Kudelski Group to protect IoT service providers...
Siemens will overhaul the production system and eliminate data silos at Mintal Group, the largest maker of carbon ferrochrome in China, and one of its biggest steel producers.
High carbon ferrochrome is the base material of stainless steel. The deal with Siemens covers the build...
Engine maker Rolls-Royce and ferry operator Finferries claim to have launched the first fully autonomous ferry, for a one-way trip off the coast of Finland.
Finferries’s car ferry, called Falco, used shipping and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to from Rolls-Royce to navigate autonomously the trip...
Note, this is the third part of a wide-ranging interview with AT&T President of IoT Solutions Chris Penrose; for the first instalment go here.
AT&T has used the line before: it is a ‘master systems integrator’, it says. There is a job to create order...
Through a deal with the city of Waco, the local utility will install 45,000 modules and 12,000 leak sensors
Itron has signed a contract with the city of Waco, Texas to install Itron’s OpenWay Riva IoT solution, including smart water communication modules and leak sensors.
Itron...
Back in August, Enterprise IoT Insights published a list of the biggest smart street-lighting deployments. It was an imperfect list, then, we acknowledged, and likely to be an iterative exercise – to be updated as new information comes to light, and new cities limber...
German industrial giant Siemens has been contracted to increase productivity and reduce downtime at a coal mine in China by connecting, analysing and optimising the performance of four mine hoist systems.
Siemens has won the deal from the YanZhou Coal Mine Company. It will collect...
The Release 1.1 specification adds support for eMTC-U and NB-IoT-U, as well as support for additional spectrum bands
The MulteFire Alliance announced the completion of its Release 1.1 specification that is optimized for the internet of things.
Adding support for eMTC-U for moderate data-rate applications in...
Sigfox is looking to add a half a dozen territories to its global footprint by the end of this year, and pass the 70-mark by the end of next. Its top priority in 2019 is to open operations in China, India, and Russia, as...
Note, this is the second part of a wide-ranging interview with AT&T President of IoT Solutions Chris Penrose; for the first instalment go here.
In all, AT&T has connected 48 million devices around the world. It counts 2,000 different “types of deployment” down the years....
Orange Business Services, the enterprise division of French carrier Orange, has won a contract to connect cargo ships along the Arctic shipping route, making them “offices at sea” with virtual networks, electronic mapping, and weather and safety updates.
The Arctic Shipping Company has selected Orange’s...
Cybersecurity road map aims to support more secure and resilient IoT development for consumer, enterprise and government users
If there is a path to a digital world that is more secure and resistant to botnet attacks, what would that path look like?
A newly published U.S....
The greatest challenge for Chris Penrose, president of IoT solutions at AT&T, is just to order and manage the multiplying opportunities afforded by the advancement of machine connectivity and intelligence.
For Penrose, the key is that business is repeatable, and his resources within the business...
