Sigfox appears to have made good on its promise to hit the magic dollar mark for asset tracking devices, and to shore up its position in the fragmented IoT networking space as the sector searches for ‘massive’ global scale. The France-based narrowband IoT networking...
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 also be able to access location data from...
More than 80 percent of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the asset tracking space are releasing products for cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) network connectivity, with high growth in LTE-M trackers as mobile operators rollout LTE-M networks.
Tech advisory firm ABI Research polled 43 “major” OEMs,...
Shipments of asset trackers will increase by more than 50 percent annually through 2024, driven by growth in low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks and smaller, cheaper and smarter IoT devices.
Asset tracking is one of the highest-growth segments in the IoT market, concludes a new study...
Canadian company Rogers for Business and Roambee announced a strategic collaboration to provide Canadian businesses with real-time monitoring for shipments and assets.
With COVID-19 continuing to have an impact on the shipment of goods across borders, Roambee’s solution allows businesses to have more visibility of their goods...
Verizon is deploying real-time kinematic (RTK) satellite navigation on its 5G network in the US, to offer hyper-precise positioning with centimetre-level location accuracy for IoT tracking services, and notably development of drone deliveries and autonomous vehicles.
Standard GPS positioning affords location accuracy of three-to-nine metres;...
Texas-based Apptricity has launched a long-range Bluetooth beacon capable of connecting sensors at distances of up to 20 miles outdoors, and up to 20 storeys indoors. It is presented as a low-cost alternative to LTE and satellite for long-range IoT connectivity, and a simpler...
Paul Brebner is Technology Evangelist at Instaclustr. He solves 'realistic problems' and builds applications using Apache Cassandra, Spark, Zeppelin, and Kafka. Paul has worked at UNSW, several tech start-ups, CSIRO, UCL (UK), & NICTA.
IoT applications work a heck of a lot better the easier...
Japanese fire truck manufacturer Morita Group has deployed a Bluetooth-based IoT solution at a 57,000-square metre factory in Osaka, in Japan, to track the location and status of trucks as they are being built.
The solution, by Japanese firm Kokusai Kogyo, utilises Bluetooth Low Energy...
Japanese duo Mitsubishi Corporation and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation have jointly acquired a 30 percent ownership stake Netherlands-based mapping company HERE Technologies.
The two companies have co-invested in HERE via holding company COCO Tech Holding in the Netherlands, which the pair established together...
The internet of things (IoT) is changing the shape of many businesses. Not only does it herald greater visibility of asset effectiveness, improve operational efficiencies, and facilitate more informed decision making, it is also opening up new ways of doing business. Its reach is...
The Kudelski Group, which specializes in digital security, and hardware designer and manufacturer CoreKinect announced the launch of a joint solution enabling hospitals, government agencies and non-governmental organizations to track key assets in the fight against COVID-19.
In a release, Kudelski said it is providing...
T-Mobile US announced it will start selling what it claims to be the first asset tracking solution in the United States, the telco said in a release.
T-Mobile US partnered with Roambee for its BeeAware asset tracking IoT offering. The solution will be offered via...
The combined solution will allow companies to monitor shipments and assets through IoT technologies
Internet of things company Aeris announced it is working with Roambee, an IoT supply chain and enterprise asset visibility company, to help enterprises improve their monitoring of shipments and assets through...
I read it somewhere, and it made sense; the application of new digital technologies in the global supply chain is about two critical functions – ‘sensing’ and ‘sense-making’, where the first is about connecting and managing assets in transit, and the second is about...
Note, this is the second part of a wide-ranging interview with AT&T President of IoT Solutions Chris Penrose; for the first instalment go here.
In all, AT&T has connected 48 million devices around the world. It counts 2,000 different “types of deployment” down the years....
Imagine a hospital in which wireless technology enables visitors, healthcare professionals and patients to roam anywhere throughout the facility, while providing continuous, accurate, and real-time monitoring. This vision can only become a reality through the integration of Wi-Fi technology as an integral part of...
AT&T has launched its first GPS asset tracker on its LTE-M network. Besides location tracking, it also packs in sensors for measuring humidity, temperature, light exposure, and impacts and breakages.
The Asset Tracker One (AT1), which works with AT&T’s Fleet Complete mobile app, is suitable...
Sigfox has struck a deal with mapping company HERE to create a global internet-of-things (IoT) location service for the supply chain and logistics industry.
The deal will see Sigfox’s low-power wide-area (LPWA) network and geolocation engine supplemented Wi-Fi hotspot coverage from Dutch firm HERE, owned...
Embedded processors have become smaller, more powerful and less expensive and are now shaping the development of the Internet of Things. Specifically, new IoT applications have benefited from embedded design, including smart cities, connected auto communication and asset tracking in transportation.
Smart cities
Smart cities use...
Over the past decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed logistics, enabling shippers to track the location of assets as they move through the supply chain — in real-time, if necessary. However, although enterprises have become savvy at using the IoT to track...
Deutsche Telekom's new facility in Dortmund will be open for companies willing to collaborate in the development of IoT prototypes
German telecomd group Deutsche Telekom and the Fraunhofer-Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, based in Dortmund, announced the foundation of the Telekom Open IoT...
The Asian telco said the NB-IoT network will support a range of internet of things projects
Singapore telecom operator M1 has launched what it claims to be Southeast Asia’s first commercial, nationwide NB-IoT network. This network will enable solution providers and businesses to launch smart...
The new offering combines Abeeway tracker hardware with Actility IoT platform and Cisco gateways
Actility, a French company which specializes in low power wide area networks (LPWAN) and location solutions, has launched a vehicle tracking solution for the U.S. market. The offering combines Abeeway Master Tracker...
