Busy Japan-based IoT connectivity provider Soracom has introduced three services to help IoT users to take advantage of new generative AI capabilities. The KDDI-owned firm said the trio of new analytics services work together or separately to process and interpret IoT device data on...
Sigfox has officially joined the LoRa Alliance – as a contributing member, no less. The French-born ultra-narrowband IoT network tech – once (long ago) the darling of the European IoT startup scene, until its money-shredding decline and desperate fire-sale at the start of 2022...
US IoT developer Blues (Blues Wireless) has signed with Germany-based virtual IoT operator (MVNO) 1NCE to more than double its roaming access to national mobile networks around the world. The partnership has been presented by the pair as one between “the only companies offering...
UnaBiz has signed with KDDI-owned Soracom, an investor in and collaborator with the Singapore-based Sigfox-owner already, to resell its global cellular IoT airtime as part of its burgeoning ‘universal LPWAN’ proposition. Meanwhile, The Nikkei reports that Unabiz is looking to raise a further $100...
UK-based IoT MVNO Eseye has been selected by UK freight software and analytics company t42 to supply global roaming and multi-IMSI eSIM services for its global container tracking solutions. The deal is an extension of an existing partnership, which has already seen t42 deploy...
The total number of IoT connections will increase by 162 percent – more than double, less than triple – in the period to 2028, says the latest edition of Ericsson’s bi-annual mobility report. It has the total at 13.2 billion connections, as of the...
Berg Insight said that Quectel, Fibocom, Sierra Wireless, Sunsea AIoT and Telit held a 69% share of the market in terms of revenues
Revenues from shipments of IoT modules reached $5.9 billion last year, up 12% year-on-year, according to a new research report from...
The total number of cellular IoT connections, on all cellular network technologies, grew 29 percent in the last 12 months, to finish 2022 on 27 billion connections, and will more than double in the period to 2030, when the figure tops six billion. So...
The number of global IoT connections will grow at a compound rate of 10 percent per year (CAGR) over the next decade, almost tripling in the period, to reach 34.4 billion connections in 2032. So says the latest market forecast from UK IoT analyst...
Soracom has introduced a new multi-carrier IoT service to cover the US market, piggybacking on the cellular networks of AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. The new data plan, called US-MAX, offers the “largest IoT coverage” in the US, plus automated-roaming between the three networks for...
UK-based IoT connectivity provider Eseye has struck a deal with Orange’s wholesale business in France to resolve permanent roaming issues for IoT customers in certain territories. The arrangement enables Eseye to piggyback on Orange’s roaming footprint with 700-odd network operators in 220-odd destinations. It...
KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom is partnering with US-based IoT platform provider Simetric to offer customers a single cloud management layer for their various IoT projects. Simetric offers management of IoT devices, connectivity, and applications in a “single pane-of-glass” platform. The Japanese firm said...
Unabiz deserves credit; the Singapore-based IoT house, owner of the Sigfox technology for a little over 12 months, is doing what most of the IoT community has considered for some years to be a minimal requirement for massive IoT, and brought the tribal elders...
Clearly, IoT solutions should be designed for whatever is to be tracked. In high-value and low-volume cases, this may be the goods themselves. More likely, IoT solutions will need to be architected to fit with shorter-life crates and pallets or longer-life containers. Where a...
Cellular IoT module shipments rose by 14 percent in the 12 months to the end of 2022, with China leading the way for regional shipment volumes India leading the way for regional shipment growth, NB-IoT leading the way for low-power IoT volumes, LTE CAT1.bis...
Unabiz has announced yet another deal in its unremitting pursuit of a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) mashup, as it seeks to add the telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) standard, commercialised in the the Johnny-come-lately MIOTY technology, to its developing roster of hybrid Sigfox and LoRaWAN solutions...
Semtech has rebranded to incorporate its acquisition of Sierra Wireless into its iconography and impose some visual logic on its expanded product portfolio – and also to position itself, as a home for both non-cellular and cellular IoT, as a proponent of planet-saving tech....
Ahead of LoRaWAN Live in Orlando next week (March 14-16), and on the back of interesting recent crossover deals with both the cellular and non-cellular IoT crowds, RCR Wireless caught up with Donna Moore (pictured), chair of the LoRa Alliance, to discuss how the...
French IoT coutfit Actility, with interests in low-power wide-area (LPWA) cellular and also non-cellular based (LoRaWAN) networking technologies, is to offer programmable LTE-M solutions with embedded and integrated SIM (eSIM and iSIM) technologies for the first time. It is using a hardware and connectivity...
Two in two days for The Things Industries (TTI), and further progress towards a ‘unified LPWAN world’; Semtech Corporation, in charge of the LoRa technology for low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT connectivity, has just announced a deal with TTI, the Dutch LoRaWAN collective, plus others,...
Barcelona-based satellite IoT provider Sateliot, in the process of deploying a low-earth orbit (LEO) constellation of NB-IoT satellites, has struck a partnership with power grid solutions company Sentrisense to launch a satellite-augmented IoT service for electric grid sensors. The Sweden-headquartered firm’s IoT devices attach...
IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona is not just about cellular, of course. But its proximity in the calendar, as January turns to February, to the city’s big MWC monster-mash at the end of the month – and the closer alignment of their...
Dubai-based IoT network and solutions provider iWire Global, at one time in the running to buy Sigfox, has signed a regional collaboration and development deal with Singapore-based IoT outfit Unabiz, which eventually won the race to buy Sigfox’s technology assets in France. The partnership...
From AI-capable endpoint devices to autonomous systems, IoT developers are building a diverse ecosystem of products and services, only set to grow. The number of IoT connected devices worldwide is projected to reach over 15 billion in 2023. MicKinsey estimates its market value will...
