Sensors

A band of research organizations and industrial companies have formed the MIOTY Alliance to promote telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB), commercialized as MIOTY, as an alternative  low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology to the …

Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN group The Things Network (TTN) has instructed the IoT community at large to draw strength, as a collective working with open technologies, from its apparent weaknesses as a …

An intro-video plays as the founders of The Things Network (TTN), take to the stage at their annual LoRaWAN bash in Amsterdam. A Hollywood-style voiceover crows about big-sounding tech – …

Annual deployments of new smart poles for street lighting, featuring sensors and connectivity, willl increase at a compound rate of more than 50 per cent per year, from just 600 …

On-device AI on minuscule IoT units will be the “new normal”, said UK-based Arm, as it unveiled a 480-times boost in edge processing performance with two new chip designs, pairing …

  Semtech Corporation announced that NetOP, a developer and manufacturer of LPWAN-based IoT applications, has developed a new smart energy consumption monitoring solution based on Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol. The …

The City of Walla Walla in Washington state in the US has detected and fixed 2,000 water leaks within 12 months after deploying a new smart metering system, the city …

Satellite connectivity startup Skylo, promising NB-IoT on existing geostationary satellites, has emerged from stealth with $116 million in total funding, including a new $103 million Series B round led by …

US LoRaWAN provider Senet and French LoRaWAN provider Objenious have both certified battery-operated tracking devices and telematics software from Australian IoT maker Digital Matter. The certification means ready integration and …

  Spanish telecom giant Telefonica, together with testing, inspection and certification specialist Dekra, unveiled an advanced research and development laboratory in the Spanish city of Malaga, in Andalusia, for the …

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The state government in Victoria, in south-eastern Australia, has agreed to fund rollout of LoRaWAN-based IoT networks for 600 farms and 5,000 square kilometres of farmland in the state. Its …

The LoRa Alliance set out its stall at The Things Conference, an annual LoRaWAN meetup in Amsterdam, with an agenda to make the IoT market simpler for developers, device makers, …

Orange has brought in a first wave of industrial companies into its new 5G-geared Industry 4.0 campus in Antwerp, in Belgium. Those to join are the Port of Antwerp, chemical …

All around the world, cities are becoming smarter, greener, more efficient. In fact, according to a May 2019 study conducted by Grand View Research, the global smart city market is …

LoRaWAN will work in the 2.4 GHz spectrum band, also occupied by Wi-Fi and Bluetooth systems, to enable LoRaWAN-based IoT devices to work globally at the same frequency for the …

Verizon has inked an agreement with Honeywell with the aim of helping utilities speed up the deployment of new communication-enabled, intelligent sensors and controls for the smart electric grid, both …

Waterfront Toronto, in charge of the $1 billion redevelopment of Toronto’s waterfront neighbourhood, has extended the deadline on whether to move forward with Google sister company Sidewalk Labs’ proposal for …

After leading the early automation revolution at the beginning of the 20th century, manufacturers are once again seeking a technological edge. A whopping 72% of manufacturing companies plan to significantly …

ABI Research has poured water on the idea Wi-Fi 6 will gain mass adoption in the IoT space in the near-term. It has also said a few dominant chipset vendors …

Bosch wants to be an “innovation leader” in AI, it told CES last week. The German industrial giant, one of the manufacturing sector’s most outspoken champions of industrial 5G, is …

  The installed base of smart waste sensors is expected to reach 1.5 million worldwide in 2023, compared to 379,000 in 2018, according to a recent study by IoT research …

  Industrial IoT firm Seeq raises $24 million from equity sale Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq has raised $24 million from investors, according to a report in Computer Reseller News. …

The Things Network, a key networking and community support group in the LoRaWAN space, has inter-linked 10,000 LoRaWAN gateways across the globe, it has claimed. The Amsterdam-based group started in …

Automotive technology company Human Horizons is conducting a smart city project called the Vehicle-Road-City Integrated Smart City in the artificial intelligence hub of the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in Shanghai, China. …