Taoglas CEO pushing to shorten IoT design cycle and get customers ‘to market on time, the first time’
The growing understanding and popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions has led to exceptional growth for antenna and IoT solution provider Taoglas. Co-founder and joint CEO...
Qualcomm reported quarterly revenue of $9.3 billion beating analysts’ projections
Qualcomm this week reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ expectation in terms of total revenue and earnings per share. The San Diego-based company reported quarterly revenue of $9.3 billion with the chips business growing 56%...
Canadian operator Bell announced an agreement with compatriot firm Esri Canada, a geographic information system (GIS) provider, to create the Bell Integrated Smart City Ecosystem.
This integrated solution will combine Bell's 5G network and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions with Esri's real-time analytics and location...
Industrial 5G and IoT – or at least, the digital pyrotechnics sprung from 5G and IoT networks – can help the planet reduce carbon emissions, reckons the tech and telecoms market. Telecoms vendor Ericsson, chorusing the message from telecoms operator Vodafone a couple of...
Operating in the sub-1 GHz band, Wi-Fi HaLow sports long range and low power, making it suitable for IoT environments
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced Wi-Fi Certified HaLow, designed for the certification of products incorporating IEEE 802.11ah technology, expanding Wi-Fi applications for the Internet of...
Airborne support for fiery situations
Over the past year it’s been hard to miss the headlines about huge fires across the world, from Australia, to Russia, to the USA. I am saddened to read about the damage to the landscape, wildlife and property, not to...
IoT module maker and service provider Telit is offering five- and 10-year prepaid airtime plans on its new mobile core network Telit NExT, the company has said. Telit is offering MVNO-style cellular IoT connectivity on 600-odd 2G, 3G and 4G networks in 190 countries;...
Swiss-based u-blox is working with SoftBank to develop common global navigation satellite system (GNSS) augmentation services for Japan, the US, and Europe. The pair have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate on GNSS 1 augmentation services for global markets, with a view...
This article is continued from a previous entry, covering key NB-IoT challenges 1-5 (available here) and key NB-IoT challenges 6-10 (available here). All of these articles are taken from a new report, entitled NB-IoT – what has gone wrong, and when will it go...
'Low cost for massive deployment is the name of the game,' Verizon Business’ Chief Revenue Officer said during a Mobile World Congress LA keynote
LOS ANGELES – Verizon Business’ Chief Revenue Officer Sampath Sowmyanarayan took to the Mobile World Congress Los Angeles (MWC LA) keynote...
This article is continued from a previous entry, covering key NB-IoT challenges 1-5 – which is available here. Both articles are taken from a new report, entitled NB-IoT – what has gone wrong, and when will it go right? The full report is available...
Note, this article is taken from a new report, entitled NB-IoT – what has gone wrong, and when will it go right? The full report is available here. A webinar on the same topic is available here, with panellists from BICS, Sequans, and Nordic...
Note, this article has been updated from the 27/10/21 version, which suggested 57% of electric meters in Europe will be connected to NB-IoT and LTE-M. This is wrong, the stated figure of 57% refers to electric meters connected via all wireless technologies.
Wireless technologies of...
Private networking company Celona has announced it has deployed a private LTE network in the 3.55-3.7 GHz CBRS band in the US on the grounds at California State University, Stanislaus. It said the deployment is the first “campus-wide” deployment of private LTE in CBRS...
Vodafone and Deloitte have teamed up on a virtual centre for digital healthcare. The new facility, called the Vodafone Centre for Health with Deloitte, combines the former’s healthcare solutions and the latter’s healthcare consultancy practice. The two will collaborate, they said, to simplify access...
UK-based Arm has introduced a new cloud-based IoT design system to enable software development for IoT without the need for physical silicon. The new offering, called Arm Total Solutions for IoT, brings together the software and hardware design processes, into a single virtual co-innovation...
Google Cloud has introduced a new embedded computing toolset to help manufacturers develop and deploy IoT solutions for consumers and enterprises. Slipping under the radar at the company’s annual Google Next shindig, which majored on the distribution of its cloud portfolio into network edge...
Vodafone has deployed iSIM-based NB-IoT-connected sensor units, loosely resembling the printable iSIM tracker solution it developed with Altair and Arm for pharma firm Bayer last year, along the UK's southern coast. The new project is to help academics, businesses, and local authorities bring new...
New research from UK satellite company Inmarsat says IoT is set to overtake cloud computing as the primary Industry 4.0 technology, with enterprise IT investments in industrial IoT to trump everything else in the next three years, including next generation security, big data analytics,...
Automation in the manufacturing space is certainly not a new concept. In fact, according Daniel Collins, senior director of IoT Edge Solutions at ADLINK, the company’s clients already have automated production lines. However, he continued, what these customers want now is to remove manual processes...
Singapore-based IoT service provider UnaBiz has raised a further $25 million as part of a Series B funding round led by Tokyo-based investment company SPARX Group. The round was oversubscribed, the company said, with participation also from Taiwanese venture and private equity firm CDIB...
It’s no secret that the number of connected IoT devices is growing rapidly. Industry experts anticipate nearly 64 billion connected devices by 2025. While IoT devices can power a broad new set of capabilities, the rapid diffusion of connected smart devices across many different...
38.1% of businesses say the main challenge they face with connectivity is that the cost prohibits deployment scaling.Industry 4.0 has brought about the next generation of edge computing and connectivity. Wireless connectivity and device management are vital to the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem....
