IoT

The top ten mobile operators reported a combined active base of 1.8 billion cellular IoT subscribers at the end of 2021   The global number of cellular IoT subscribers increased …

Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities (THKMC), a voluntary welfare organisation in Singapore, has deployed a number of air quality sensors from IoT provider Unabiz, via Finnish Sigfox operator Connected Finland, …

Telefónica is looking to offer a 5G-based dual-mode terrestrial-and-satellite service for NB-IoT connectivity. Its digital services business, Telefónica Tech, and managed services division, Telefónica Global Solutions (TGS), are working with …

IoT connectivity platform provider Wireless Logic has acquired IoT MVNO Mobius Networks, a distributor of Vodafone M2M and IoT data SIMs for local government and smart cities, for an undisclosed …

JD.com, the other mega China-based online retailer, has been running at least 100 “self-developed” automated guided (or “ground”) vehicles (AGVs) over a private 5G network, apparently from local vendors Huawei …

Analyst house Dell’Oro Group has adjusted down its near-term forecast for the private LTE and 5G market. It said its calculations show that radio access network (RAN) shipments and revenues …

The war in Ukraine is being fought through many unconventional means. One of the most prominent relates to energy supply and dependence. In 2021, about two-fifths of the gas that …

It has taken three years to appear, but four cities (“communities”) are to adopt and test a set of visual icons, originally developed and announced as part of the Google …

Nordic Semiconductor has announced it is to acquire US firm Mobile Semiconductor, a specialist in embedded memory technology for microcontrollers (MCUs) and systems-on-chip (SoCs). Mobile Semiconductor already supplies static RAM …

The 5G spectrum auction is scheduled to start on July 26 India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) confirmed that it had received applications from Adani Data Networks, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Vodafone …

Semtech, the steward of LoRa-based hardware production, picked up the baton at LoRaWAN World Expo last week (see more here: LoRaWAN goes [Iggy] pop) to further relay the message that …

The powers-that-be in LoRaWAN World have decided LoRaWAN will save the planet, and the tech ecosystem that has grown around it will get rich in the process – and the …

GE Healthcare said that the 5G lab will serve as a testbed to develop future-ready products and solutions   GE Healthcare announced the inauguration of its 5G Innovation Lab in …

GSMA forecasts that 5G connections will represent 14% of total mobile connections in the APAC region by 2025 5G connections in Asia Pacific (APAC) are expected to reach 430 million …

US LoRaWAN operator and global LoRaWAN cloud platform provider Senet has announced a new network-based Location Estimator service to make any LoRaWAN device connecting to its own network in the …

In May, EchoStar announced the launch of an early adopter program for pan-European LoRa -Enabled IoT service   EchoStar Mobile, which provides mobile satellite services and is a subsidiary of …

China ended May with a total of 899.3 million subscribers in the 5G segment China’s telecommunication industry recorded revenues of CNY 665 billion ($99.46 billion) in the first five months …

Actility said that the gateway is fully configurable and manageable from the standard ThingPark Enterprise console   French IoT specialist Actility has announced the integration of Motorola Solutions’ MC-EDGE Intelligent …

The APAC smart electricity metering market will grow at a CAGR of 6.2% during the 2021-2027 period   The smart electricity metering market in Asia-Pacific is expected to reach 1.1 …

The UnaBiz takeover of Sigfox has been rubber stamped in letterheads, employment contracts, marketing outreach, and a concerted push on social media activity; “starting July, SIGFOX (sic) is now a …

The use of IoT hardware and software applications will have a very positive impact on global sustainability but the trend masks significant variations between use cases, and over the lifecycle …

The farmers can use data provided by the LoRaWAN network to anticipate extreme events that require clam-preservation action IoT solutions provider Kerlink and Bioceanor, which is a predictive water quality …

Spending on (mostly tech-linked, commonly IoT-linked) business services to streamline and manage environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance will grow to $158 billion in 2025, at a compound annual growth …

Vodafone is working with Hugh Lowe Farms to use IoT to deliver 1.5 million strawberries to Wimbledon, the UK grand slam tennis championship, which started in London this week. The …

Spanish IoT provider Libelium has acquired local firm HOP UBIQUITOUS (HOPU), which produces IoT solutions for environmental and meteorological monitoring. The deal follows Libelium’s capital injection from venture capital fund …