Satellite IoT operator Kinéis has a deal with Hyderabad-based space engineering solutions provider Dhruva Space to produce compatible devices and solutions to grow low-power satellite IoT applications in India. Kinéis will have a constellation of 25 nanosatellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) by early 2025....
Germany-based IoT company Dryad Networks, offering solar-powered AI-assisted LoRaWAN gas sensors for wildfire detection, has signed with France-based satellite IoT startup Kinéis, also using the LoRaWAN standard, to integrate direct-to-satellite connectivity into its Silvanet-branded wildfire sensors. It said the addition of satellite coverage, ready...
A trio of French tech and logistics firms have combined to develop a new tracking solution for the freight industry which uses both terrestrial and satellite IoT technologies. The consortium comprises private rail freight operator Europorte, owned by railway operator Getlink, which manages the...
France-based satellite IoT startup Kinéis is to launch five nanosatellites from a launchpad in New Zealand on June 18, with another 20 to follow within eight months. The firm wants its new satellite constellation to provide global IoT connectivity for remote applications in the...
The (real) IoT market is both highly fragmented and deeply incestuous. This is not news, of course; it is to be expected for a market that is competitive and collaborative at the same time, and which coalesces systematically and regularly around new innovations. It...
IoT solution provider UnaBiz has acquired Sensatag, a five year-old Netherlands-based provider of low-power industrial IoT tracking solutions, for an undisclosed fee. Sensatag has a decent line in Sigfox trackers; Singapore-based UnaBiz, meanwhile, is also in the running to buy Sigfox, as final bids...
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 for the logistics and transportation industries. Kinéis was created in 2018 by CNES and...
The number of satellite IoT subscribers will increase at a compound rate of 35.8 percent per year to reach 15.7 million in 2025, from around 3.4 million in 2020. Analyst firm Berg Insight, with a new research report, said the market for satellite IoT...
