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Libelium buys Spanish smart cities firm HOPU, sets sights on future IPO

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 Axon Innovation Growth IV, part of Spain-based Axon Partners Group, a year ago, which...

Libelium intros multi-tech, multi-vendor IoT cloud-management platform

Spain-based IoT provider Libelium has launched a new cloud platform, Libelium Cloud, to manage multi-vendor IoT environments. The firm said the launch “completes” its reinvention as an “end-to-end” IoT solutions provider, covering hardware, software, and connectivity. The firm has traditionally specialised in IoT sensors...

The planet needs tech but the tech needs fixing – new ‘global action plan’ to solve IoT

The world urgently needs new digital tech, but the new digital tech urgently needs attention. So said the World Economic Forum this week, as it corralled together various private enterprises, public-sector groups, city authorities, and national governments around a ‘global action plan’ to solve...

Libelium catches ‘wind of change’ to recast itself as one-stop IoT solutions shop

Spanish IoT company Libelium has expanded its singular focus on IoT hardware to embrace wider IoT system integration, solution provision, and consultancy. The company has updated it corporate logo and website to go with the shift in its core business offering. It has been coming;...

Post-pandemic IoT – three ways to fight COVID and recover business (Reader Forum)

The crisis we face with the COVID pandemic must provide us with lessons to avoid making the same mistakes again. This is because, in an increasingly globalised world, sadly this will not be the last pandemic. Once the initial phase of health alerts has...

King Tut gets connected – IoT for cliff stability in the Valley of the Kings 

An IoT sensor platform has helped a team of geologists from York University in Canada and the University of Zurich in Switzerland to monitor the stability of the terrain over the tomb of the 18th dynasty of pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings...

Libelium pivots to go from IoT hardware provision to IoT systems integration

Spanish IoT hardware maker Libelium has announced a new strategy to expand its offer to include integrated hardware, software and systems. The company said at IoT Solutions World Congress 2019 in Barcelona it is moving into consultancy mode in order to capture more complex IoT...

City briefs: AT&T cohort Ubicquia bundles CBRS into street-light gear, starting in Vegas

Cities are set to be able to run smart city applications in CBRS spectrum contained on street-lighting poles, after streetlight networking provider Ubicquia announced it is adding CBRS functionality to its Ubimetro-branded small cells. The addition of support for IoT, LTE, and 5G networks...

Pennsylvania state capital hangs smart city sensors off its lighting network

UK smart-city firm Telensa has struck a deal with the city of Harrisburg, the state capital of Pennsylvania in the US, to trial traffic analytics, air quality monitoring, and smart waste sensor systems using its connected street lighting system. Harrisburg deployed a Telensa smart...

IoT vendors strive for simplicity with NB-IoT developer kits, LoRaWAN box solutions

A number of pre-MWC announcements from variously-aligned IoT vendors, including Spanish and US IoT firms Libelium and Senet, have revealed a truth about the manic IoT sector and a sub-theme of this year’s summit: that the IoT market has gone unchecked, and its protagonists...

Smart cities Q&A: “Greater democracy will be the legacy of IoT,” says Libelium

Spanish IoT maker Libelium, author of sensors and gateways for smart solutions, is a mainstay in the smart energy and smart cities spaces. Enterprise IoT Insights caught up with the company's chief executive, Alicia Asín, to discuss dominant and emerging business models in the...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: Does the tech industry need a new way to sell to cities? (5/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: Should cities build a central data platform? (4/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: Which smart city apps provide the surest ROI? (3/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: What’s so good about PPP? (2/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: How hard is it to fund smart cities? (1/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city - procurement models to make every city smart, we five burning questions for...

NIB: Sigfox nabs Nokia man; u-blox’s remote IoT lock; Libelium, Alibaba pair up

Sigfox nabs ex-Nokia man to head up US sales Sigfox has appointed former Nokia man Murray Kawchuk as vice president of sales for its US business. Kawchuk will lead the company’s sales, engineering and IoT teams, develop partnerships with device makers, system integrators, and other...

Libelium patches security flaws in IoT gateway to ward off Mirai-style attacks

IoT gateway provider Libelium's Meshlium Manager System had web vulnerabilities, which were open to Mirai-style botnet attacks. Libelium said it has corrected the faults. The Meshlium Manager System receives data from sensors and forwards the information directly to the Internet.  The gateway is used for...

How IoT sensors are helping protect and conserve beluga whales in Alaska

In 2017, a natural gas leak was detected six kilometres off the coast of Nikiski in Alaska. The leak impinged on a critical habitat for endangered beluga whales. The Alaskan authorities sought ways to assess and manage the leakage, and its impact upon the...

How LoRaWAN threaded IoT sensors are helping with flooding in Buenos Aires

On January 16, 2017, the Arroyo del Medio river, north of Buenos Aires in Argentina, broke its banks, forcing three quarters of the village of La Emilia to evacuate their homes. This was after local authorities had already constructed retaining dikes to avoid flooding,...

Montpellier, Sarasota implement smart parking initiatives

The French city has deployed a smart parking solution with Libelium’s technology while the U.S city has launched a smart parking app The smart parking industry continues to grow and has emerged as a major internet of things (IoT) use case that falls under the...

IoT case studies: Smart agriculture and smart parking

Learn how the IoT is enabling efficiencies in a variety of high-impact verticals The internet of things (IoT) is all about using data to bring efficiencies to anything really--municipal government operations, manufacturing, oil and gas, building management, transportation and food production among many other examples....

Ericsson, Libelium deploy IoT platform in the Netherlands

The IoT platform will allow Tilburg municipal government to manage air and water quality and measure sound levels The Council of the Dutch city of Tilburg has selected Ericsson and Spanish firm Libelium to set up an IoT platform around the area of Puishaven, in...

Libelium’s technology helps protect mussels in the Ohio River

U.S. firm Aridea Solutions has selected the Spanish firm to deploy sensors for mussel protection Spanish wireless sensor maker Libelium is currently involved in a smart water project in the Ohio river, with the main aim of protecting mussels. The Ohio river is home to populations...