French LoRaWAN specialist Actility has acquired a France-based LoRaWAN startup called API-K, which produces a LoRaWAN tracking system for mountain sports and rescue teams, and was co-founded by LoRaWAN luminaries François Sforza and Nicolas Sornin, two parts of the three-man team that invented the...
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....
France-based Dracula Technologies, developing low-light energy-harvesting technology for passive (battery-less) LoRaWAN-based IoT connectivity, has said its new production facility in Valence in southeastern France has passed an audit by US-based Semtech for quality, safety and sustainability, and is ready to roll. The firm said...
NB-IoT and LoRa-based IoT connectivity technologies have, and will continue to have, the lion’s share of the low-power wide-area (LPWA) end of the IoT networking market, reckons research house Omdia. The firm said the total number of IoT connections on the two technologies, operating...
Switzerland-based mobile operator Swisscom is working with French IoT stalwart Actility and Irish satellite IoT company EchoStar Mobile to expand its LoRaWAN IoT footprint across Europe. EchoStar Mobile will provide capacity to support direct sensor-to-satellite operations, and Actility will provide interworking functions between Swisscom’s...
Actility-owned IoT asset tracking provider Abeeway is using the Monarch 2 GM02S module from Sequans for cellular IoT connectivity in the new version of its Abeeway Compact Tracker, according to the French IoT chipmaker. The Abeeway product uses the Monarch 2 GM02S for LTE-M...
In case you missed it (we did); China-based Quectel Wireless Solutions, the biggest cellular IoT module maker on the planet, is getting into the non-cellular low-power-wide-area (LPWA) IoT game with the launch of a new LoRa-based module, called KG200Z, based on an STM32WLEx series...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on those sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
LoRa's path on...
US-based cellular IoT module maker Blues has appointed Alistair Fulton (pictured), formerly in charge of LoRa activity at chipmaker Semtech, as its new chief operating officer and vice president (“of ecosystem”) to handle the firm’s go-to-market strategy and partner base. Fulton has been around...
The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), handling Wi-Fi industry cooperation and initiatives, has said Wi-Fi HaLow is ready to rock in “commercial IoT deployments across a range of sectors”. As such, it has issued a new white paper with a bunch of likely deployment scenarios...
This is not a definitive guide; this is not an exact science. But the logic is plain – to present a sensible way to think about devising an Industry 4.0 system that hits the mark. Because, when novel technology is brought to market by...
France-based Dracula Technologies, developing energy-harvesting technology for low-power IoT solutions, has announced a new electrical energy storage solution, called LAYERVault, which retains photovoltaic power, drawn from light sources even in murky venues, on a single flexible film. It works with the firm’s existing LAYER...
Semtech has enabled Sigfox ‘0G’ technology on its SX126x family of LoRa chipsets, for use with LoRaWAN or other LoRa-based networks. The SX126x series is the California firm’s ‘legacy hardware series; the move follows its move to make one-time rival Sigfox work at chip...
Based on his insights gained over the past decade, Kristoff Van Rattinghe, chief executive at Belgium-founded IoT tracking firm Sensolus, discusses how IoT technology is developing and the trends companies can expect in 2024.
Containers, pallets, special loading racks, trailers, boxes and mobile machinery –...
French low-power IoT specialist Actility, operating and selling LoRaWAN infrastructure, has raised €16 million ($17.2m) in a new funding round to drive its own growth in the private networks space and consolidation in the wider low-power IoT market. The implication is that Actility remains...
Note this article is continued from a previous entry, under the title ‘Cellular has changed’ – eSIM positions cellular IoT for energy transition. Click here for the previous instalment.
But, as said, metering is a weird game, which employs different technologies in different local markets...
IoT provider Blues and hardware maler RAKwireless have combined their connectivity and hardware products in a modular industrial IoT developer solution, offering interchangeable IoT components and global IoT connectivity. The solution combines a pre-configured IoT connectivity solution from the former with a composable interface...
Singapore-based Unabiz, owner of the Sigfox technology, has announced a deal with Shenzhen Kaifa Technology (KAIFA) to jointly sell Sigfox-based smart meters in global markets, and also to develop hybrid Sigfox and LoRa meters for certain markets. The deal is with the advanced metering...
Heliot Europe, already the largest Sigfox operator in Europe, has said its new networks in the UK and Denmark have now been integrated into its infrastructure portfolio, which includes Sigfox networks in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and Liechtenstein. The Switzerland-based firm acquired the UK...
And so it comes to pass; hybrid IoT devices running both LoRaWAN and Sigfox, once the bitterest rivals in the low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) game, will be available soon. US semiconductor company Semtech, owner of the LoRa physical-radio layer technology (and licensor of hardware...
Seven IoT service providers in Europe have signed multi-year deals to develop and sell IoT solutions using EchoStar Mobile's satellite LoRa network. The customers are API-K, Cyric IoT, DalesLandNet, Dryad Networks, Galaxy1, ProEsys and Symes. They will use the service, offering satellite coverage in...
The total number of cellular IoT connections, on all cellular network technologies, grew 29 percent in the last 12 months, to finish 2022 on 27 billion connections, and will more than double in the period to 2030, when the figure tops six billion. So...
Big news at the low-power wide-area (LPWA) end of the IoT world, particularly for those in the trenches with Sigfox, and final proof if it was needed that Sigfox-owner Unabiz, a year into its rescue mission, is an agitator and a reformist in the...
Amazon has issued a clarion call to the IoT crowd to build IoT devices for Sidewalk, its nationwide LoRa-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) network in the US. It said the Sidewalk network, which links consumer smart home devices into a low-power neighbourhood wirless infrastructure for...
