The global value of the cellular IoT market will almost double to $61 billion by 2026, from $31 billion in 2022, according to Juniper Research. The growth will be driven by high-end 5G and, in particular, low-end NB-IoT and LTE-M, it said. These opposite...
Canadian company Rogers Business announced the launch of new offerings for smart cities and smart building using IoT technology.
In a release, the firm said that the new offerings will target the growing needs of businesses and municipalities for sustainable and operationally efficient infrastructure.
“As we...
Singapore-based UnaBiz is in “pole position” to pick up the tech assets of troubled IoT firm Sigfox, in receivership, as a number of other groups and organisations also prepare bids before the auction process closes on February 25. Others in the frame include US...
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Business solutions provider NTT is working with US software firm ServiceNow to introduce an “AI-enabled end-to-end workflow automation platform” to its private 5G proposition. The idea is enterprises will be able to migrate business processes onto the cloud using ServiceNow’s cloud platform, which incorporates...
France-based container tracking company Traxens has raised €23 million in a further funding round, led by existing investors, and at the same time acquired local rival NEXT4, which produces removable and reusable box trackers. Traxens, which counts Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk (Maersk) among...
Telstra has announced a AUS$100 million deal with utility services provider Intellihub to provide up to 4.1 million cellular IoT SIMs for smart energy meters in Australia over the next 10 years. The operator said it was its “largest ever IoT deal”, in terms...
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is working with operator StarHub to leverage 5G and IoT as part of a two-year trial to build a ‘smart campus’ infrastructure to bring intelligence and automation to its facilities management operation, as well as to drive its...
5G will connect IoT sensors, including cameras, on waste trucks
A collaboration between Swinburne University of Technology and Brimbank City Council in Australia will result in an interconnected network of garbage trucks that will use the 5G network and the Internet of Things (IoT).
The project...
Taiwanese industrial IoT provider Ubiik has released a Release 15 level dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT unit that can operate as a small cell or access point. It is pitching the product to mobile network operators and private LTE network providers, supplying industrial enterprises. The...
This discussion is missing something, of course; IoT is not supposed to be written about as an environmental risk. The idea that billions of disposable trackers might litter the planet is an alarmist angle, arguably, on a tech-for-good story. Because, in most cases, the...
Pforzheim University in Germany has expanded its LoRaWAN network, originally deployed for research purposes at the university faculty of technology, for usage by smart city and Industry 4.0 applications, as well as in industrial 5G crossover work with another university in the country's south.
These...
Australian LoRaWAN network operator National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) has signed a contract with technology provider Wellness TechGroup, to provide IoT network coverage to 70,000 smart streetlights in Uruguay’s capital Montevideo.
In a release, the Australian firm said that the project will cover 200 square...
The IoT platform market is innovating and expanding, and about to boom. So says ABI Research, which has counted 62 companies offering connectivity management platforms for enterprises to keep track of their varied IoT estates, and calculated $31 billion will be spent on them...
We are a little late with this, but it is a sizeable deal, which might also be construed as significant because it is for low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity in Spain, in Sigfox’s (other) backyard, and its comes to us in the days after Sigfox’s...
Vodafone has formalised a partnership with health-tech platform provider Proximie to supply sundry 5G networking, IoT sensing, and edge computing componentry for its surgical software, which is being deployed in hospital operating theatres and diagnostic rooms to help with training and operations.
Proximie says...
Sigfox has been placed into receivership in France, with a six month window to find a new owner. The company’s chief executive, Jeremy Prince, instructed the Toulouse Commercial Court to open the procedure yesterday (January 26), to place Sigfox, as well as local Sigfox...
Lighting firm Signify has completed its acquisition of UK-based Telensa, a pioneer in the smart street-lighting market, with a strong customer base among local councils and utility organisations, notably in the UK. The deal was originally announced last July; the transaction fee has not...
Chip-maker Silicon Labs has introduced two families of 2.4 GHz wireless system-on-chips (SoCs), featuring integrated AI/ML accelerators and support, variously, for short-range protocols including Matter, Zigbee, OpenThread, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and Bluetooth mesh.
The Austin-based firm said integrated (tinyML) AI/ML hardware acceleration in the...
The narrative about the environmental impact of disposable IoT (see here and here; check back for upcoming report on The Green Credentials of 5G and IoT), begs the question, of course; how many, exactly? How massive does ‘massive IoT’ get? And how big is...
Helium has followed roaming deals with LoRaWAN operator Senet in the US and LoRaWAN platform provider Actility in Europe with a new roaming tie-up with LoRaWAN provider X-TELIA in Canada. San Francisco-based Helium uses a blockchain model to crowd-source LoRaWAN coverage, where LoRaWAN hotspots,...
Netherlands-based lighting firm Signify is to integrate LTE and 5G into a new range of ‘broadband luminaires’ for the smart cities market. Signify has signed a deal with smart-city broadband provider Siklu to bundle the Israel-based firm’s ‘multi-haul’ ‘multi-gigabit’ hardware (branded ‘MultiHaul’). The new...
Swiss salt producer Swiss Saltworks (Schweizer Salinen / Salines Suisses) has deployed an LTE-based IoT monitoring system, gauging salt levels and temperatures, to help it deliver salt to the right locations during the winter season. The solution, supplied by Swiss engineering firm and system...
Many would reflect on 2021 with mixed feelings. On the positive side, there were significant developments in the telecoms industry such as wider scale deployments of 5G by CSPs and the increased availability of enterprise licensed spectrum, opening the door for campus deployment of...
