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LoRaWAN duo SenRa and Senet expand in India – and into Middle East, Asia, Africa

India-based LoRaWAN provider SenRa has expanded its network operation to 74 cities in India, and has claimed a rush of deals with the likes of Bosch for industrial IoT, Ripple Metering for smart meters, and PNI for smart parking, as well as deals running...

Orange supplies Russian mining firm with Wi-Fi based RTLS to grade, sort raw coal

Russian coal mining company Raspadskaya has deployed a Wi-Fi based real-time IoT tracking solution from Orange Business Services to help sort different grades and types of coal at a coal preparation factory in the Kemerovo region of Russia. Raspadskaya, partly owned by British steel making...

‘IoT is on a roll’ – Nordic Semi looks to South America for ‘massive’ IoT surge

Nordic Semiconductor has expanded its presence in South America with a new sales and technical support agreement with Brazilian consulting firm BP&M. The chipmaker reckons “IoT is on a roll” in the region with “massive deployment of cellular IoT” and “increasing focus on short-range...

IoT firm UnaBiz intros low-power GPS trackers to monitor black bears in Japan

Singapore-based Sigfox operator and IoT service provider UnaBiz is providing low-power GPS trackers to monitor Asian black bears in Japan, and help keep the peace with local residents. The company is working with the Picchio Wildlife Research Centre, a wildlife tour operator and conservation company...

SNCF tests LoRaWAN to track rail assets as LoRa Alliance bids for GS1 certification

The LoRa Alliance is working with SNCF to monitor rail assets in France and test the feasibility of adding LoRaWAN as a carrier tech in GS1 standards. It is engaged with GS1 in Europe, the European arm of the GS1 standards body for the...

Vodafone intros 10cm GNSS positioning to zone-in on ‘needle in industrial IoT haystack’

Vodafone is launching a higher-accuracy GNSS-based positioning technology for enterprises to remotely track vehicles, machines, and devices to within 10 centimetres, compared to around three metres with standard satellite systems. It is using an assisted GNSS system, which introduces various correction techniques and analytics,...

Sigfox migrates IoT infrastructure to Google Cloud in pursuit of ‘massive IoT agenda’

Sigfox is to migrate its entire IoT infrastructure to Google Cloud, the company has said. Until now, Sigfox has managed its core network infrastructure and data services from its own headquarters, in Toulouse in France. The move represents a major shift for Sigfox, which re-stated...

Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom bundle cellular and compute in global ‘campus’ offer

Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom are bundling private cellular and edge computing into an integrated ‘campus’ networking package for enterprises globally. The pair are offering the same in Germany, already; their new deal extends to a global market. Ericsson is providing the LTE and 5G...

Nordic Semi on 2021: 10 times more with 10 times less – for a new golden age of tech

It’s hard to believe that at the start of last year some people were still openly questioning whether IoT was real, or if it would ever arrive in any significant scale. No one is saying that now. And the primary reason is Covid-19. As this...

Quuppa on 2021: Carriers to combine 5G-powered IoT and RTLS for Industry 4.0

As the curtain falls on 2020 and businesses take stock of a year defined by Covid-19, it is safe to say that IoT, one of the few big winners over the past year, is poised for even greater success in 2021. In fact, the...

Covid-19 vaccine shipments – a defining public proof-point for IoT tracking?

If there was ever a critical proof-point for the efficacy of IoT technologies, then this is it: the coordinated global shipment of coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines. This is the moment, arguably, in late 2020, going into 2021, when the world’s gaze falls obliquely on the...

KORE Wireless on 2021: Better services, smarter connectivity, deeper intelligence

The past year has most of us yearning for a more ‘normal’ year ahead. Fortunately, the future is bright in the IoT marketplace. Consider this: IoT Analytics predicted in 2018 that we’d see 21.7 billion active connected IoT devices in 2025; that forecast was...

Nordic buys Wi-Fi assets from Imagination Tech to mix Wi-Fi with BLE and cellular IoT

Nordic Semiconductor has acquired Ensigma, the Wi-Fi division of UK-based semiconductor and software design firm Imagination Technologies Group, for an undisclosed fee. The deal is for Ensigma’s development operations, including most of its staff, and tech assets and intellectual property. Imagination Technologies Group is owned...

Solar-powered IoT tracking (no battery) and the ‘three golden rules’ of IoT design

Netherlands-based engineering and design firm SODAQ has invented a solar-powered cellular IoT asset tracker which dispenses with a battery altogether, and runs by harvesting solar energy alone. It is the first of its kind, anywhere, reckons Nordic Semiconductor, which supplied the NB-IoT/LTE-M chip into...

Austrian postal service and Australian keg company sign for 100,000 Sigfox trackers

Sigfox has announced deals with Austrian logistics and postal provider Austrian Post and Australian keg rental provider Konvoy Group, via local Sigfox operators Heliot and Thinxtra, respectively. Between them, the deals are worth around 100,000 connections by the end of 2020, reckons Sigfox. The French...

Nordic signs with Arkessa to offer global roaming on dual NB-IoT/LTE-M module

Nordic Semiconductor has struck a deal with Arkessa to offer wider international cellular IoT connectivity with its nRF9160 system-in-package (SiP), the Trondheim-based firm’s flagship dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT module. Global roaming has remained a challenge for the broad IoT sector, with mainstream telecoms operators running...

The challenge to make disposable tracking tags (and massive IoT) green

Note, this article is taken from a new report on the asset tracking sector, called Asset Tracking – and the March Towards Massive IoT. The report can be downloaded here. With some horror, the idea of disposable tracking tags and labels, applied to millions of boxes...

BICS teams up with GNSS provider Gurtam to offer asset tracking in 200 countries

Telecoms roaming broker BICS has struck a deal with telematics provider Gurtam to provide international IoT asset monitoring and fleet management in 200-odd countries. The collaboration combines BICS’ global IoT roaming network with Gurtam’s GNSS-based tracking offer. Belarus-based Gurtam claims its transport monitoring platform, called...

Three ways Covid-19 has spurred asset tracking and the march on massive IoT

Note, this article is taken from a new report on the asset tracking sector, called Asset Tracking - and the March Towards Massive IoT. The report can be downloaded here. It is not just about the march of technology – that trackers are getting smaller...

Digital Industry Solutions Report Series: Asset Tracking and the March Towards Massive IoT

It’s one thing to know where something is, it’s another to know how its contents have been treated – whether they are frozen, unfrozen, damaged, dropped, lost or stolen. Asset tracking and asset management are a boom industry, and a foundation stone for industrial...

Digital Industry Solutions: Asset tracking – and the march towards massive IoT

It’s one thing to know where something is, it’s another to know how its contents have been treated – whether they are frozen, unfrozen, damaged, dropped, lost or stolen. Asset tracking and asset management are a boom industry, and a foundation stone for industrial...

What is asset tracking, and what is it worth? (Why it’s a jungle – and why it’s massive)

What is asset tracking, anyway? And what is it worth? Because tracking of machine data, one way or another, is easily conflated with the internet-of-things (IoT) movement, at large. And we all know about the mad growth slated for general purpose IoT. Fifty billion...

From vehicles to vaccines (and BLE to NB-IoT): five key asset tracking use cases

1 | FedEx + BLE – for tracking vaccine shipments FedEx has introduced a new Bluetooth based asset tracking system in time for anticipated shipping of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as for other emergency pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. Customers in the aerospace and retail sectors will...

Printable NB-IoT tracking labels: Vodafone, Bayer and the deal to make IoT ‘massive’

Note, a version of this article appears in a new report on the asset tracking sector, called Asset Tracking – and the March Towards Massive IoT. The report can be downloaded here. The race-to-the-bottom in the IoT market has taken another turn, and plunged downwards...