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Soracom intros trio of generative AI services for cellular IoT customers

Busy Japan-based IoT connectivity provider Soracom has introduced three services to help IoT users to take advantage of new generative AI capabilities. The KDDI-owned firm said the trio of new analytics services work together or separately to process and interpret IoT device data on...

Sigfox joins LoRaWAN gang – Unabiz signs as contributing member to LoRa Alliance

Sigfox has officially joined the LoRa Alliance – as a contributing member, no less. The French-born ultra-narrowband IoT network tech – once (long ago) the darling of the European IoT startup scene, until its money-shredding decline and desperate fire-sale at the start of 2022...

Telit Cinterion sells automotive IoT unit to IoT-hungry German outfit Kontron for €24.5m

Bit late, but important to report: US-headquartered IoT module maker Telit Cinterion announced at the start of the month (July 3) that it has agreed to sell its cellular IoT automotive business to German IoT and IT electronics manufacturer Kontron for €24.5 million. The...

Vodafone wins €25m deal to supply 315,000 NB-IoT water meters in Spain

Vodafone Spain has said it has won a €25 million deal to supply 315,000 water meters over five years to Canal de Isabel II, the local government-owned water utility in the Madrid region. Vodafone was one of four winners in the tender; it is...

Industrial 5G vs 5G-for-industry – making sense of a two-speed private 5G market

Note, this is an excerpt from a new editorial report, called Private 5G for IoT – plotting timelines, defining applications and making bets. The full report is available to download for free here. An on-demand webinar on the same topic is available here. There is...

Module maker Blues taps 1NCE for global IoT roaming

US IoT developer Blues (Blues Wireless) has signed with Germany-based virtual IoT operator (MVNO) 1NCE to more than double its roaming access to national mobile networks around the world. The partnership has been presented by the pair as one between “the only companies offering...

Vodafone pushes Sony Semi’s Sensos smart-label solution

Vodafone appears to be putting renewed effort into its commercial smart-label product, developed originally by Sony Semiconductor, in combination with SIM specialist Kigen and module maker Murata, and supplied initially as a proof-of-concept with cellular IoT airtime from Vodafone into German pharmaceuticals firm Bayer...

Nine key trade-offs to optimise IoT connectivity (Reader Forum)

Due to the distributed nature of IoT, connectivity/networking is perhaps the most critical element of the full IoT stack. It is also the area that requires the greatest consideration of sensitivities and trade-offs regarding the requirements of the use cases, the nature of their...

Seven European IoT providers sign with EchoStar for LoRa-based satellite coverage

Seven IoT service providers in Europe have signed multi-year deals to develop and sell IoT solutions using EchoStar Mobile's satellite LoRa network. The customers are API-K, Cyric IoT, DalesLandNet, Dryad Networks, Galaxy1, ProEsys and Symes. They will use the service, offering satellite coverage in...

Ondas gains “at least” $15m in two-part round to fund US private networks play

US private cellular and drone services provider Ondas Holdings, parent of Ondas Networks, has raised “at least” $15 million in a two-phase venture funding deal with Charles & Potomac Capital (C&P Group). The new investment will go to “accelerate production, fulfill backlog and support...

A question of money – why all private-5G hopes are pinned on RedCap

Sooner or later, it all comes down to money – and there just aren’t that many clear-cut use cases to bankroll a private 5G deployment. That is the consensus. Yes, industrial AR for remote assistance, reliable mobility for AGVs and AMRs, and, most convincingly,...

Telefónica-led telco alliance teams with Qualcomm to corral XR startups

A novel alliance of eight mobile operators, spearheaded by Telefónica and seeking to cajole “disruptive” startups to build applications for their global 5G networks, has signed with Qualcomm in a bid to stimulate the AR/VR startup community, specifically. The group has issued a “global...

Kerlink and The Things Industries team up on zero-touch LoRaWAN provisioning

France and Dutch LoRaWAN groups Kerlink and The Things Industries have announced a partnership to align their hardware and software, respectively, to offer customers zero-touch provisioning for IoT network deployments. The pair said they have developed a ‘plug-and-play’ LoRaWAN package, combining gateways and network...

Bosch strikes deal to buy building tech supplier Paladin to enter Canadian market

Bosch has announced a deal to acquire Vancouver-headquartered systems integrator Paladin Technologies to expand its building services business in North America, and specifically to enter the Canadian market. Paladin Technologies, which also supplies security and safety solutions, will be integrated into its building technologies...

OneWeb strikes sales deals in North America as LEO constellation moves into range

UK-based low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network operator OneWeb has signed a couple of channel sales deals. It has a new agreement with UK-based enterprise connectivity provider Momentum to integrate its satellite services with French satellite operator Eutelsat, in order to deliver broader satellite connectivity...

Sigfox-owner Unabiz signs cellular IoT deal with Soracom; seeks $100m funding

UnaBiz has signed with KDDI-owned Soracom, an investor in and collaborator with the Singapore-based Sigfox-owner already, to resell its global cellular IoT airtime as part of its burgeoning ‘universal LPWAN’ proposition. Meanwhile, The Nikkei reports that Unabiz is looking to raise a further $100...

Private 5G (worth $6.4bn in 2026; 40% from Industry 4.0) bigger than public 5G

A new report from analyst group SNS Telecom & IT, based out of Dubai, says global spending on private LTE and 5G network infrastructure for vertical industries will grow at a CAGR of approximately 18 percent between 2023 and 2026, eventually accounting for more...

NTT deploys IoT and AI to create live digital twin of Tour de France

IT infrastructure and services company NTT is to create a digital twin of the Tour de France bike race, which starts next month (July 1), with a bunch of IoT sensing and AI sense-making technologies to provide a live visual rendering of the event...

On-prem vs cloud IoT data collection: The pros and cons (Reader Forum)

In today's data-driven world, a significant amount of data storage still happens on-premise. However, when organizations opt for cloud solutions, it is often through cloud subscriptions with hyperscalers like Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services. These cloud-based services offer tools for building applications, but...

Austria’s capital utility taps Actility for LoRaWAN network to make Vienna ‘smartest city’

State-owned energy provider Wien Energie is to deploy a LoRaWAN network across the city of Vienna as part of its bid to make the Austrian capital the “most livable and smartest city in the world”. Wien Energie has appointed LoRaWAN mainstay Actility to provide...

How Industry 4.0 chilled out and got real (‘not with 5G’) – Software AG hails new dawn for IoT

A good – and overdue and delayed – catchup with Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at Software AG, at Hannover Messe some months back gave pause to reflect on broader developments with Industry 4.0, and with 5G as an adjunct to it, as well...

Freight tracking firm t42 picks IoT MVNO Eseye for ‘ultra-reliable’ cellular IoT

UK-based IoT MVNO Eseye has been selected by UK freight software and analytics company t42 to supply global roaming and multi-IMSI eSIM services for its global container tracking solutions. The deal is an extension of an existing partnership, which has already seen t42 deploy...

Nokia, Telefónica strike private 5G deal to spur Industry 4.0 in Latin America

Nokia has announced a go-to-market deal for private LTE and 5G in Latin America with Spain-based mobile operator Telefónica. The pair will target the ports, mining, energy, and manufacturing sectors, described as the “most promising industries in the region”. The deal covers “Hispanic geographies”;...

Ericsson, Proptivity debut neutral-host indoor-5G at shopping mall in Sweden

The neutral-host partnership between telecoms vendor Ericsson and real estate management company Proptivity, announced last month, has borne its first commercial fruit with the deployment of an indoor 5G network at a shopping mall in Stockholm. The Swedish duo said the local operating unit...