IoT

Sigfox has been placed into receivership in France, with a six month window to find a new owner. The company’s chief executive, Jeremy Prince, instructed the Toulouse Commercial Court to …

Lighting firm Signify has completed its acquisition of UK-based Telensa, a pioneer in the smart street-lighting market, with a strong customer base among local councils and utility organisations, notably in …

Nokia and Nordic Semiconductor are to make Nokia-owned Standard Essential Patent (SEP) licences available with the purchase of cellular IoT hardware from the Norway-based chip and module maker. The cellular …

Chip-maker Silicon Labs has introduced two families of 2.4 GHz wireless system-on-chips (SoCs), featuring integrated AI/ML accelerators and support, variously, for short-range protocols including Matter, Zigbee, OpenThread, Bluetooth Low Energy …

The narrative about the environmental impact of disposable IoT (see here and here; check back for upcoming report on The Green Credentials of 5G and IoT), begs the question, of …

Helium has followed roaming deals with LoRaWAN operator Senet in the US and LoRaWAN platform provider Actility in Europe with a new roaming tie-up with LoRaWAN provider X-TELIA in Canada. …

Swiss salt producer Swiss Saltworks (Schweizer Salinen / Salines Suisses) has deployed an LTE-based IoT monitoring system, gauging salt levels and temperatures, to help it deliver salt to the right …

Oracle says it’s “redefining the telco market” with Oracle Cloud for Telcos, which bundles its infrastructure, services and apps for CSPs.

Cellular IoT provider EMnify has raised $57 million (€50 million) in Series B funding from London-based growth fund One Peak. The new capital, with One Peak as sole investor, will …

Singapore-headquartered terrestrial IoT provider UnaBiz has struck a deal with Kinéis, a France-based satellite IoT spin-off from the French Space Agency (CNES), with a view to provide satellite IoT connectivity …

Telefónica Tech, the digital services arm of Telefónica, has signed a deal with Spanish engineering services company Grupo Álava, to launch a predictive analytics solution for the Industry 4.0 market …

The LoRa Alliance has added a number of new testing capabilities to its LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT), for device makers to pre-test the performance of IoT solutions before seeking …

Eighteen months ago, in the middle of the first COVID-19 wave, we launched a study to learn more about how businesses were using IoT. We sought to discover if IoT …

Note, in the week following publication of this article, Sigfox filed for bankruptcy. Coverage of receivership procedings against Sigfox can be found here; read on to hear about the kind …

The spectacular growth of online shopping and remote working in 2020 and 2021 thanks to the pandemic translated into almost nonchalant acceptance of the idea of home delivery of all …

We are a little slow off the mark with this one, but there was a notable missive last week from Amazon about IoT network-building in the US, as the firm …

Qualcomm Technologies has identified physical retail as a key growth sector for its IoT chip business. The sector has been severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, it said, and requires …

Last week, Amsterdam-based Nowi, a specialist in energy harvesting tech for integrated circuit (IC) microchips, announced work with narrowband IoT connectivity provider Sigfox to produce IoT modules that extract power …

Satellite IoT is everywhere, suddenly. Further to Inmarsat’s L-band satellite IoT solution with energy firm RWE in the UK, and LoRaWAN outfit Senet’s arrangement on satellite IoT tracking with Eutelsat …

RWE has recruited Inmarsat to carry IoT data traffic from its hydroelectric power facilities in Snowdonia national park in northwest Wales over its new ELERA satellite service. The German energy …

London-based startup FloLIVE, offering global 5G connectivity for high-performance IoT, has combined with SIM specialist Kigen and chip maker Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony; formerly Altair)) on a new iSIM-based cellular …

Germany-based IoT provider 1NCE is to set up a new home in Miami in the US, from where it will run its operations in the North America region. The company, …

US LoRaWAN network operator and cloud provider Senet has partnered with European satellite operator Eutelsat Communications, together with US-based LoRaWAN and GPS tracking solutions provider TrakAssure, and UK-based LoraWAN (and …

California-based chipmaker Semtech, which owns and licences the non-cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) LoRa technology and LoRaWAN protocol, has released a software upgrade for LoRa integrated circuits (IC) and gateways to …

  Spending on the internet of things in the Asia Pacific region was forecasted to expand by 9.6% in 2021, accelerating from 1.5% the previous year, according to a recent …