UK satellite broadband provider Inmarsat, with a new line in narrowband satellite IoT and a new parent in wings in the shape of US counterpart Viasat, has introduced a collaboration and solutions marketplace for partners to support its own entry into the satellite IoT...
Vodafone has launched a new ‘edge innovation programme’ (2.0) to offer enterprise customers and technology partners the chance to co-create new applications with on-premise edge and network-based edge multi-access edge compute (MEC) resources, as well as with standard centralise cloud functions. The UK operator...
The smart city and climate-neutral initiative will receive 360 million euros of Horizon Europe funding
The European Commission (EC) announced the 100 EU cities that will participate in the EU mission for 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030, the so-called Cities Mission.
The commission noted...
The LoRa Alliance has moved to head off fears about a collapse of LoRaWAN as a public network technology in Europe, following the decision by Bouygues Telecom in France to shut down its Objenious LoRaWAN network from 2024, by declaring a 66 percent jump...
Volkswagen-owned automotive software company CARIAD has said it will use system-on-chips (SoCs) from Qualcomm for its new automated driving platform, for use in all Volkswagen car brands from the middle of the decade. The partnership with Qualcomm is a “first of its kind” for...
US-based Federated Wireless, offering shared spectrum services in the CBRS band, has raised a further $14 million in Series D funding, to go with its $58 million Series D announcement in February. It brings its total Series D round to $72 million, with “affiliates...
Arm has issued a flurry of announcements related to its Cortex-M and Cortex-A processor families, restating its mission to “streamline” embedded computing for the IoT developer market. Among the new releases, the UK-based firm has launched a new top-of-the-line Cortex-M processor, the Cortex-M85, offering...
US IoT distributor CalChip Connect (CCC) has selected Federated Wireless for private LTE and 5G, both for its own distribution centre in Pennsylvania, and as a distribution product for CalChip Connect to resell to enterprise customers. Federated Wireless called CCC the “leading IoT distributor”...
Note, for more on this topic, and more on Schneider Electric's private 5G story, catch Zach Nimboorkar on the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on April 28 on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard). He is joined by speakers from ABI Research, MFA...
Dish Wireless and Cisco, in partnership with Internet2, have launched a Neutral Host Network (NHN) pilot at Duke University using Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) shared spectrum.
Stephen Bye, chief commercial officer at Dish Wireless, explained that it can be challenging to provide consistently reliable connectivity...
Another challenge, apart from devices, with the mission to scale industrial 5G is with sales channels. Speaking a while back, following its “flagship” arrangement with system integrator Kyndryl for its various Industry 4.0 gear, Nokia says its strategy on private networks has shifted, decisively....
Singapore-based UnaBiz is the new owner of France-based ultra-narrowband IoT company Sigfox, the Commercial Court of Toulouse confirmed today. UnaBiz has acquired Sigfox SA, the primary technology company, and Sigfox France SAS, its network operator subsidiary in France. The deal, which takes Sigfox out...
Note, for more on this topic, and to hear more from MFA and others, join the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard) on April 28 – also featuring speakers from ABI Research, Schneider Electric, and Vodafone; check...
Global revenues from IoT device management services will top $36.8 billion by 2026, according to ABI Research. The forecast represents a compound annual jump (CAGR) of 17.1 percent, from around $16.7 billion at the end of 2021. It said spiralling interest in IoT device...
Yes, we have done the Leone analogy before, kind-of (see: 1NCE upon a time in America), but the original Spaghetti Western title works even better to tell the story, briefly, of how cellular IoT rode into town on a horse called 1NCE, and brought...
The Commercial Court of Toulouse in France has delayed its decision on the sale of Sigfox until April 21. The decision, originally scheduled for today (April 14), gives Singapore-based UnaBiz, the long-time front-runner to buy ailing IoT firm, another week to appeal against the...
France-based facility services company Derichebourg Multiservices has integrated 1,200 IoT sensors into the LED ceiling lights at its new headquarters in Créteil (pictured), near Paris. Data from the sensors will help the firm optimise its energy management at the site, as well as to...
Singapore-based UnaBiz, the front-runner in the race to buy Sigfox, has had its bid for the ailing French IoT firm blocked by the French Ministry of Economy, as political hyper-sensitivity around economic nationalism, and even protectionism, mounts ahead of the French presidential elections on...
Juniper Research found that the global shipments of sensors used in smart buildings will exceed 1 billion annually in 2026
The number of buildings globally deploying smart building technologies will reach 115 million in 2026, an increase from 45 million in 2022, according to a...
Bosch and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are combining on a new digital services platform for the logistics industry, to launch in Europe, India, and the US in late 2022. Bosch is in charge of the platform itself, developing and operating the solution, which includes...
An Open Letter to Presidential Candidate Macron
Subject: Resumption of Sigfox activity #SauvonsSigfox #ReviensLeon
Presidential candidate Macron,
You gave me a taste for politics. You have given me hope in a government with progressive values, capable of destroying dogmatic practices that chained France to immobility and futile...
Ericsson is working with US real estate developer Hillwood to offer a tool for autonomous and connected vehicle companies to access “secure and constant” 4G and 5G connectivity at the Mobility Innovation Zone (MIZ) within the 27,000-acre AllianceTexas development in Fort Worth, in Texas....
FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx, is working with California-based aerial cargo startup Elroy Air to launch test flights for autonomous drone cargo deliveries in 2023. The deal is billed as a “first of its kind agreement” in the US. FedEx Express said it...
An update on the Sigfox takeover, taken from largely from a report in La Tribune Toulouse, the local business paper in Toulouse, France, where the seven candidates offering to rescue the ailing French IoT firm had their bids reviewed at the city's commercial court...
