BROWSING: IoT

EMEA: Connected car connects automotive and telecoms

Audi Electronics Ventures and Cubic Telecom have announced a strategic partnership inclusive of a $20.3 million investment. Yet another example of telecommunications and the automotive industry joining hands to further the vision of the connected car. Let’s start by taking a look at who these...

Nokia: Small cell is key to future mega cities

Site acquisition, jurisdictional approval, backhaul access key small cell challenges. Chris Stark, Nokia’s chief business development officer for North America, envisions a future of smart mega cities where traffic, resource use, emergency response latency and more are problems of the past. Stark, during a keynote address...

EMEA: Sprint M2M’s Internet of everything

Sprint announced in late April its Command Center 2.0 for machine-to-machine solutions. The original Command Center has been around for four years, but the new offering is what is driving industry attention to Sprint in the M2M space – providing connected device support and a global...

Verizon pushes smart cities and smart farms

Carrier plans an 8-city IoT education tour WASHINGTON – Verizon Enterprise Solutions announced it will expand its foray into smart city and smart agriculture technology as part of the vaunted "Internet of Things" revolution. The carrier’s push into IoT makes business sense as many analysts predicted connected...

EMEA: Is M2M finally ready for prime time?

Last week London was host to M2M World Congress. The presenters were an interesting mix of network operators, hardware and software vendors and industry analysts approaching this space from many different angles. There was smart home, smart city, connected car and retail applications in the...

Coders: Episode 8 — Apple Watch development, Microsoft Build roundup

This week on Coders I speak with Brian Mueller, the developer behind the Carrot line of apps for iPhone and Apple Watch. His line of apps are named Carrot from "carrot and stick," and the humorous content in the fitness, to-do and weather apps...

LIS2015: Keeping up with the evolution of LTE

DEL MAR, Calif. – The continued evolution of LTE is providing fertile ground for the testing industry, and features including carrier aggregation and Voice over LTE were the focus of the first day of this week's LTE Innovation Summit. Olga Shapiro, program director for the...

EMEA: Accenture’s take on IoT for the digital consumer

Earlier this year Accenture released its "Digital Consumer Survey" taking a look at how consumer views are changing in this new connected world. Focusing on how the "Internet of Things" will impact these views, 24,000 consumers in 24 countries were surveyed in order to...

Defense consultant thinks IoT will shape cybersecurity

More connected devices equates to more cybersecurity exposure, more risk WASHINGTON – Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the nation's largest management consulting firms that is well known for its broad range of experience on cybersecurity, has predicted that a new and more comprehensive approach will...

Driving connected car profits for telecom and automotive

There’s no denying the fact that the connected car is one of the hottest topics in the telecommunications and automotive industries. Although within the connected car topic there are a great many sub-topics that still require discussion in order to reach an appropriate outcome. For...

Intel to invest $24M in Chinese accelerator

Intel also spends $16M on IoT and $13M on angel fund WASHINGTON – At the Intel Developer Forum last week, the company announced plans to spend $24 million on a mass-market accelerator program in China. Intel claims the program is designed to allow Chinese innovators and...

IoT to power a smart business district in Shanghai

International investment to use IoT to connect major world hub WASHINGTON – Dutch firm NXP Semiconductors announced on March 27 it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Digital China Holdings, an IT services company, and B.M. Holding Group, a real estate development firm, with...

EMEA: Semtech and KPN taking LoRa to the IoT market

Solutions to power the IoT RCR Wireless News covered the recent announcement of the LoRa Alliance and resulting go-to-market activities of IBM Research and Semtech. After meeting with Semtech and KPN, there is more to the story now than just the Alliance discussion. Semtech, a supplier of analog...

Affirmed Networks snags LG U+ NFV, virtualized EPC deal

NFV deal said to enhance South Korean operators network agility, LTE-U plans South Korea telecom operator LG U+ is pushing forward with plans to deploy network function virtualization technology on its network, announcing a deal with Affirmed Networks to deploy an NFV-based virtual evolved packet...

EMEA: Bristol’s open programmable smart city

Bristol Is Open is developing an open programmable city. The project is a collaboration among technology companies, media and telecommunications companies, universities, local communities, and local and national government. In addition, a new organization has been developed to provide management and oversight to this joint venture...

Reality Check: Will the IIoT trend live up to the hype?

Remember the dawn of the Internet? Remember all the skeptics who didn’t see its transformational genius? Remember how it became enormous? It’s happening again. What’s happening involves the Internet, of course, but in a newly emerging context. I am referring to a phenomenon called the industrial...

EMEA: IBM Research enables ‘Internet of Things’

IBM Research and Semtech announced a new technology based on low-power, wide-area networks targeting machine-to-machine and the "Internet of Things." The technology is said to offer an alternative to the use of cellular or Wi-Fi. The technology is based on long-range wide-area networks, using a...

EMEA CEOs: Wirepas believes for IoT, the ‘thing’ is the network

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Teppo Hemiä, CEO of Wirepas, to learn more about the company’s offering and vision for the "Internet of Things." This IoT vision at the simplest level is that the "thing" is the network. An intriguing concept. Wirepas...

#TBT: AT&T, T-Mobile US price war; Son claims Sprint a broadband savior … 1 years ago this week

Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories! AT&T Mobility gives...

Reader Forum: How MNOs can seize opportunities with data and the IoT

In most cases, the management structures of mobile network operators have yet to grasp the value proposition of the "Internet of Things" as they have been historically hyper-focused on competing according to who can offer the lowest price for handling megabytes. But in the...

EMEA: Embedded World highlights IoT

This week Nürnberg was host to Embedded World, three days of embedded system technology companies showcasing construction elements, modules, full systems, operating systems and software. With roughly 900 exhibitors from more than 35 countries, this is the world’s largest trade fair for the embedded...

HP helps network operators monetize IoT

Hewlett-Packard today announced its "Internet of Things" platform, which will enable network operators to manage IoT sensors. This solution will provide vertical applications on M2M devices, have the ability to analyze the collected data regarding the performance of these applications via a secure cloud infrastructure...

EMEA CEOs: Where will wearables go from here?

RCR Wireless News recently spoke with Christian Stammel, CEO of Wearable Technologies about the state of the wearables industry and the possibilities for the future. The good news is that there are still many opportunities for innovation yet to come. However, the bad news...

EMEA: Nokia Networks powers 5G IoT

The "Internet of Things," 5G and security are all hot topics. Nokia Networks has pulled them all together in announcing its vision for secure IoT connectivity via 5G that will be demonstrated at the upcoming Mobile World Congress event. There are many statistics in the public...