Israeli supply-chain IoT software developer Wiliot has secured a major contract with the Royal Mail in the UK to supply 850,000 ambient IoT tags to track wheeled containers, or roll cages, through its distribution centres. The containers, called Yorks, are used to transport parcels...
Service management and orchestration company Axon Networks is buying software company DZS' service assurance and Wi-Fi management software portfolio that includes CloudCheck, Expresse and TruSpeed.
Axon is making the acquisition as an all-cash, $34 million transaction. The products will then be integrated into Axon's...
Embedded World 2024, Nuremberg: Chip manufacturer STMicroelectronics (STMicro) is working with ambient IoT startup Dracula Technologies to use its energy-harvesting organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology in its new STM32U0 line of microcontrollers (MCUs). The two French firms are showing Dracula’s LAYER OPV product on the...
As future 6G standards are discussed this year, current work on Releases 18 and 19 in areas such as AI / ML, MIMO, and power savings will provide the starting point.
The rollout of 5G is well underway. At the same time as 5G is...
As 2023 closes, and 2024 closes in, it seems the movement around ambient energy-harvesting battery-free IoT is stepping up. Scandinavian duo ONiO and Epishine have struck a deal, they have said, to “bring to life a shared vision of self-powered IoT devices” based on...
There is a niche committee vote this week at a meeting of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to decide whether ‘ambient’ IoT, to enable energy-harvesting in battery-less cellular devices, should be included as a work item in development of the Release 19 of...
