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Top commercial real estate brokerages making a play for big data

The top commercial real estate brokerages are making massive PropTech investments in data analytics, according to a panel of experts who spoke at CREtech?s New York Venture Conference yesterday. Big data will become the most critical technology driver in the commercial real estate brokerage industry,...

PropTech: How digital twins impact OPM in smart buildings

Harnessing the true potential of the internet of things in smart buildings will depend on how building owners and managers operationalize and use the data available from sensors and device in the context of improving efficiencies. This broad concept of PropTech--using technology to improve...

ARDEN MEDIA PRIVACY POLICY

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Semtech adds Laird to its design partner program for LoRa-based solutions

  Semtech says that Laird Connectivity’s engineering services capabilities will enable the acceleration of LoRa-based IoT solutions   Semtech has added Laird Connectivity, a global provider of wireless connectivity solutions, to its Semtech Design Partner Program. The program, which was launched two months ago, focuses on the creation...

Ligado selects Ericsson, Sequans to build satellite-based IoT network

  Ligado Networks said it aims to use 40 megaherz of mid-band spectrum for the deployment   Ligado Networks announced plans to start developing 5G technology in the L-Band for mobile services in North America. Under this multi-year strategic plan, Ligado aims to deploy a satellite and terrestrial...

Iridium, AWS partner to offer satellite IoT solution

  The agreement will make Iridium IoT services available with AWS IoT   Satellite communications company Iridium Communications has been collaborating with Amazon Web Services to develop a new service dubbed Iridium Cloud Connect, a satellite cloud-based solution that offers global coverage for internet of things applications. Iridium,...

Sigfox operator UnaBiz raises $10m from KDDI and ENGIE for East-Asia LPWA rollout

Sigfox operator UnaBiz has raised over $10 million in Series A funding to develop ‘internet-of-things’ (IoT) infrastructure and services in Singapore and Taiwan. The funding included investments from Japanese operator KDDI and French electric utility ENGIE. Further investments came from angel investors in Singapore, as...

Orange Business Solutions deploys IoT fuel monitoring for Russian fishing fleet

Orange Business Services, the business-to-business branch of French telecom group Orange, is providing Russian fishing fleet operator Dobroflot with an internet of things (IoT) solution for fuel monitoring. The IoT-based solution will help the Russian firm to optimize fuel consumption, analyzing weather and vessel position...

Test and Measurement: Keysight boosts Ixia, 5G position

Keysight Technologies continues to bolster its position in 5G testing as well as that of its Ixia Solutions Group in enterprise networking and security-related visibility. In 5G, the test company gave more details this week about a recently signed agreement with Korea Telecom that came...

NB-IoT ecosystem grows with Huawei, Gemalto partnership

Security and battery life are major thrusts of NB-IoT partnership Gemalt and Huawei's silicon business, HiSilicon, have partnered up to develop a narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) module with the focus of helping device manufacturers cut cost and size while leveraging the low throughput of...

NEC signs IoT partnership with Libelium focused on smart cities

The Japanese firm will combine its IoT platform with Libelium’s gateways and sensors Japanese company NEC Corporation has signed a strategic partnership with Spanish IoT specialist Libelium for the provision of smart city solutions. The Japanese company said that the combination of its CONNEXIVE IoT...

Cellular connectivity LPWA standards for IoT – debunking the myths

Arm’s mission to scale and grow the IoT ecosystem, by providing the secure architecture that underpins end-devices, puts us in a unique position in our industry as being broadly connectivity agnostic. After discussing cellular IoT at length across numerous continents and conferences with our ecosystem...

Comcast and Huawei to test 3.5 GHz radio this month

Analysts predict private IoT networks and new opportunity for Huawei The Federal Communications Commission has authorized Huawei to demonstrate a remote radio unit transmitting in the 3.5 GHz spectrum band. The test is for Comcast, and is scheduled to take place between June 15 and...

Comcast’s wireless future: buyer, seller or network operator?

IoT could be biggest opportunity, but not in the near term Cable and media giant Comcast clearly intends to be a player in the market for wireless services. With tens of millions of Wi-Fi access points, an enterprise internet of things business, a mobile service...

Wisol taps Sequans for Cat M1 chips

As the smartphone market matures, companies that make mobile device components are looking to the internet of things for growth opportunities. Korea's Wisol, which makes surface acoustic wave filters and duplexers for phones, will now make machine-to-machine connectivity modules based on Sequans' LTE chipsets. "Wisol...

Vodafone launches commercial NB-IoT network in Spain

The NB-IoT network will initially be available in Madrid and Valencia. Vodafone Group's Spanish subsidiary said its narrowband "internet of things" network is now operational and commercially available in Spain. Santiago Tenorio, group head of network strategy and architecture at Vodafone Spain,...

Trains had better watch out for self-driving cars

The impact of self-driving cars on passenger rail could be comparable to the impact of automobile itself 125 years ago. Self-driving cars are coming, bringing with them a rather sizable wave of disruption. Traditional automakers must form new alliances as they are being challenged by startups,...

IoT in Action Episode 2: Vodafone NZ uses big data for customer insight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkfAOhO2Uss In our second episode of IoT in Action, we speak with David Bloch of Vodafone New Zealand at Teradata PARTNERS 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia, about how the operator is using big data. Bloch said the network operator uses Teradata's Aster and Hadoop clusters to capture...

5G Americas White Paper: 5G Technology Evolution Recommendations

This white paper expands the foundation of 4G Americas’ view of 5G recommendations that was published in the October 2014 white paper titled, 5G Americas’ Recommendations on 5G Requirements and Solutions.

T-Mobile US touts coverage benefits from recently closed 700 MHz spectrum deal

Having recently closed on its acquisition of 700 MHz spectrum assets from Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile US has begun touting the benefits those licenses will provide to consumers. In a blog post, T-Mobile US CTO Neville Ray said the carrier expects to being taking advantage...

Feature Report: Video Optimization & Monetization for Carriers

Video now represents almost half of all mobile network traffic, and will soon account for most of the traffic on mobile networks. Mobile video motivates subscribers to buy more data, but it can also overwhelm the network, leading to poor user experiences and churn....

CommScope posts strong quarter

Infrastructure solutions company CommScope (COMM) reported net income of $64 million on sales of $935 million in the first quarter of the year, driven by its wireless offerings and strength in the U.S. market. CommScope's net income boomed to $64 million, compared to $16 million...

Foxconn on the move

The Chinese manufacturing giant that makes most of the world's iPhones is looking for new opportunities in other parts of the mobile ecosystem. Foxconn is reportedly teaming up with HP to make servers to support cloud data applications for service providers. The move is the...

Cell phones and the Supreme Court (Mobile Minute)

Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. For many people, a smartphone is the only computer they will ever own or ever want to own - but should smartphones be considered personal computers by the criminal justice system? That's the question the U.S....