Sigfox has sold its wholly-owned Germany narrowband IoT network to Sigfox operator Heliot Europe, which has been acquired as part of the same deal by Luxembourg-based venture capital firm Cube Infrastructure Managers. No fee has been mentioned.
The arrangement puts Cube Infrastructure Managers, via its...
More than 80 percent of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the asset tracking space are releasing products for cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) network connectivity, with high growth in LTE-M trackers as mobile operators rollout LTE-M networks.
Tech advisory firm ABI Research polled 43 “major” OEMs,...
Shipments of asset trackers will increase by more than 50 percent annually through 2024, driven by growth in low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks and smaller, cheaper and smarter IoT devices.
Asset tracking is one of the highest-growth segments in the IoT market, concludes a new study...
Softbank-backed satellite IoT startup Skylo is set to deploy 5G-ready NB-IoT chipsets that can connect via geostationary satellites, it has said. The California-based firm has teamed up with Sony Semiconductor Israel to accelerate the adoption of NB-IoT over satellite.
Sony Semiconductor Israel, formerly Altair Semiconductor,...
Canadian company Rogers for Business and Roambee announced a strategic collaboration to provide Canadian businesses with real-time monitoring for shipments and assets.
With COVID-19 continuing to have an impact on the shipment of goods across borders, Roambee’s solution allows businesses to have more visibility of their goods...
Texas-based Apptricity has launched a long-range Bluetooth beacon capable of connecting sensors at distances of up to 20 miles outdoors, and up to 20 storeys indoors. It is presented as a low-cost alternative to LTE and satellite for long-range IoT connectivity, and a simpler...
UK telecoms firm BT has unveiled a new augmented reality (AR) demo as part of its ‘connected industry’ showcase at its Adastral Park science campus. The enhanced industrial IoT exhibit is one of nine functional digital-change showcases, arranged like a “Disneyland for industry decision...
Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems. Go here for the full report, which is free to download. A webinar on the same subject,...
Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems. Go here for the full report, which is free to download. A webinar on the same subject, with panellists...
Vodafone has partnered with the UK department for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra) and leading forestry group Forest Research to investigate how narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) technology can help monitor tree growth and support research into the role of trees in tackling climate change.
The three-month...
In truth, Wi-Fi HaLow is not new. The solution, geared towards low-power mid-range IoT solutions, was announced back in 2016. But there is gathering momentum around it, with chips and devices in the latter stages of development and a queue of customers apparently lined...
Health tech startup Upstream Health has developed a low-cost IoT monitoring solution with the UK-based Thingstream division of IoT semiconductor maker U-Blox (branded ‘u-blox’) to help with remote care of elderly patients in their homes. The new solution could save the healthcare sector, with...
French IoT firm Kerlink has teamed up with Japanese medical devices and electronics distributor GISupply on a set of LoRaWAN-based IoT solutions for the smart health and farming sectors. The deal gives Kerlink a new market outlet, in Japan.
Their “package of applications” bundles LoRaWAN-based...
France-based semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics (STMicro) has signed agreements to purchase the entire share capital of France-based ultra-wideband (UWB) specialist BeSpoon and the cellular IoT connectivity assets of Canada-based Riot Micro.
The deals will strengthen STMicro’s wireless connectivity portfolio, notably its STM32 family of micro-controllers, the...
UK water utility Yorkshire Water is in the final stages of an NB-IoT and AI pilot with BT to connect almost 4,000 acoustic, flow, pressure, and water quality monitors to manage leaks and interruptions in the water network in the north of England.
BT, which...
Australian electric utility Tasmanian Networks (TasNetworks) has appointed local LoRaWAN provider National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) to build a LoRaWAN network in the island state of Tasmania, off the southern Australian coast.
42-24, the IT and telecoms division of local government-owned TasNetworks, is will seek...
BehrTech has released the latest version of its MYTHINGS Central network and device management platform for MIOTY-based low-power wide-area IoT networks. The 3.0 version includes backend integration with Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Cumulocity, as well as with other third-party applications and IoT platforms including...
Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems. Go here for the full report, which is free to download. A webinar on the same subject,...
Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, out tomorrow, on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems (see cover image below). Go here for the full report, which is free to download. The...
A single connectivity technology will suffice for certain IoT applications, but the real magic is being realised when two or more complementary IoT technologies combine. Increasingly, solution providers are looking to make multi-mode connectivity a springboard for more complex and ambitious IoT solutions.
This webinar...
Chip maker Nordic Semiconductor is combining low-power long- and short-range IoT connectivity technologies in hardware and software, at developer level, for solution makers to run the pair together in test applications.
Nordic has two hybrid IoT offers, in the form of its nRF9160 developer kit...
Orange Business Services, the enterprise services division of French telecoms firm Orange, has been appointed by New Zealand based infrastructure construction company McConnell Dowell to design a customised IoT system based on a private LoRaWAN network to enable its construction sites to collect and...
China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, plans to deploy 118,000 NB-IoT base stations across the country during 2020, taking the total to 350,000, Chinese news site C114.net reported.
China Mobile stopped adding new IoT connections to its 2G network as the...
Autonomous NB-IoT platform harvests its own energy
HiSilicon, a chip manufacturer owned by Chinese vendor Huawei, and Dutch firm Nowi Energy showcased the second generation of their energy autonomous NB-IoT platform.
The companies explained that the device acts as a sensor hub which can transmit via...
