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SNCF tests LoRaWAN to track rail assets as LoRa Alliance bids for GS1 certification

The LoRa Alliance is working with SNCF to monitor rail assets in France and test the feasibility of adding LoRaWAN as a carrier tech in GS1 standards. It is engaged with GS1 in Europe, the European arm of the GS1 standards body for the...

BehrTech intros IoT gateway to make TS-UNB / MIOTY “accessible, consumable”

Toronto-based low-power IoT challenger BehrTech has launched a low-cost gateway for ultra narrowband IoT networks under its MYTHINGS brand. The new product, from Germany-based IoT manufacturer WEPTECH, is the first to gain its new MYTHINGS certification, the company said. It said the new unit...

Once upon a time in the (New) West – how LoRa is looking to strike gold on the IoT trail

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘IoT is not about LoRa vs Sigfox anymore; it is about Design Process X vs Design Process Y’. Click here to see the previous instalment. Picking up the thread again, we hear that the cost-sensitive...

‘IoT is not about LoRa vs Sigfox anymore; it is about Design Process X vs Design Process Y’

The low-power wide-area (LPWA) end of the IoT sector is characterised by the capabilities and limitations of its main connectivity technologies. But this is wrong. These technologies – the likes of LoRaWAN, Sigfox, and NB-IoT – should not be so easily reduced to a...

Sigfox chief Le Moan exits, replaced by USA boss, as IoT firm kickstarts new ‘evolution’

Sigfox co-founder and chief executive Ludovic Le Moan has stepped down from the French IoT firm with immediate effect. He has been replaced by Jeremy Prince, who has served as president of the company’s US operations since March 2019. Le Moan founded Sigfox in 2009...

DT ties-up on dual-mode LTE-M/LoRaWAN, as LoRa 2.4GHz catches sail

Deutsche Telekom is working with The Things Industries (TTI), the industrial solutions division of LoRaWAN network provider The Things Network (TTN), to combine licensed and unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies LTE-M and LoRaWAN into a single IoT connectivity solution. The partnership is a major statement...

‘Smart city tech works in towns, too’ – Kerlink proclaims small-town IoT in France

Smart city tech, traditionally the reserve of the world’s major metropolitan centres, works just as well in small towns. So says French IoT provider Kerlink, which has installed a LoRaWAN network in Saint-Grégoire, in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France, a city of 9,700 residents, in...

LoRa Alliance gees-up troops for ‘massive’ IoT battle – ‘only’ LoRaWAN ready for scale

As is its job, the LoRa Alliance took to the (virtual) stage at The Things Conference this week to proclaim its destiny, slate the competition, and gee-up the troops. The message was that LoRaWAN will achieve “massive scale” in practically every ‘vertical’ market in...

Australian IoT collective deploys LoRaWAN in Tasmania for cities, utilities, farmers

Australian IoT networking company National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) has completed deployment of a LoRaWAN network in Tasmania in conjunction with local energy distribution utility TasNetworks. LoRaWAN gateways have been deployed on TasNetworks’ utility assets across the island state, south of the Australian mainland,...

Telia on 2021: Private 5G will play key role in digital change for critical industries

2020 has been a year of reckoning with a devastating human toll. Technology was a silver lining. It has helped us – as people, businesses and societies – to cope with an unprecedented situation.  Even before the pandemic, the Nordic and Baltic countries were considered...

LoRa Alliance on 2021: ‘The planet must get (IoT) prepped for further disruption’

2020 has seen the greatest acceleration of digital transformation and automation in history. As the world looks to emerge from Covid-19, the reality that this will not be the last pandemic remains – and this means every person, company, and government must be better...

Senet on 2021: A mandate for SLA-backed carrier-grade IoT networks

As IoT deployments continue to scale and solution requirements become more predictable, the market will recognize the clear distinction between carrier-grade low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks and those that fail to meet carrier-grade specifications. This distinction will draw clear lines between commercial and consumer grade...

Connexin to deploy nationwide IoT network in the UK

U.K. Internet of Things (IoT) and smart city operator Connexin announced that it will expand its IoT network nationwide, providing carrier-grade roaming long range wide area networks (LoRaWAN) connectivity and infrastructure to customers all over the U.K. “With a low cost wide-area networking solution becoming...

Covid-19 vaccine shipments – a defining public proof-point for IoT tracking?

If there was ever a critical proof-point for the efficacy of IoT technologies, then this is it: the coordinated global shipment of coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines. This is the moment, arguably, in late 2020, going into 2021, when the world’s gaze falls obliquely on the...

Semtech on 2021: Availability and simplicity to drive critical mass for LPWAN systems

One thing that became abundantly clear during the Covid-19 pandemic was the importance of the supply chain throughout the enterprise. From the factory floor through distribution to retail stores and deliveries, there is an increased imperative to track and manage billions of items as...

Amazon and Semtech integrate LoRaWAN into AWS IoT core network server

The LoRaWAN low-power wide-area IoT connectivity protocol has been integrated into Amazon Web Services’ cloud-based IoT core network server. The news comes as the LoRaWAN community pushes Amazon to re-think its recent decision to choose a proprietary version of LoRa, over LoRaWAN, for its...

Fractus Antennas on 2021: After the gold rush (post-hype, when the real work begins)

Big brands will start to enter the IoT space more aggressively in 2021 with full end-to-end solutions, buying up successful companies either to avoid competition or else to complete their own portfolios. This will trigger regulators to set rules in the longer terms around...

LoRa Alliance, Semtech in talks with Amazon to switch Sidewalk over to LoRaWAN

The LoRa Alliance, the technical and marketing group promoting the LoRaWAN protocol for wide-area network (WAN) communications, is looking at ways to tweak the LoRaWAN specification for Amazon, so the retail and cloud giant switches its Sidewalk wireless networking platform from a proprietary version...

Wi-Fi HaLow gets $13m funding boost in bid to upset the LPWA applecart

Australia-based semiconductor company Morse Micro, developing Wi-Fi HaLow  for low-power mid-range IoT solutions, has raised $13 million in new funding. The latest Series A funding round takes its total to $30 million, and will go on expanding its product and technology development teams at...

NNNCo builds LoRaWAN in Sydney – from North Shore to Blue Mountains

Australian IoT operator National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) has turned on a city-wide LoRaWAN network in Sydney, Australia, stretching north of the city along the Upper North Shore and west of the city towards the Blue Mountains. NNNCo said the infrastructure, covering 2,700 square kilometres,...

What is asset tracking, and what is it worth? (Why it’s a jungle – and why it’s massive)

What is asset tracking, anyway? And what is it worth? Because tracking of machine data, one way or another, is easily conflated with the internet-of-things (IoT) movement, at large. And we all know about the mad growth slated for general purpose IoT. Fifty billion...

Senet offers RAN planning to help newbie LoRaWAN operators into IoT game

US IoT provider Senet has released a suite of radio access network (RAN) planning and management tools to support rollout of LoRaWAN networks by traditional infrastructure providers, and other new entrants, so they can get 'skin' in the IoT services game. It is also...

Australia trials LoRaWAN smart lighting in bid to save turtle hatchlings

The wellbeing of turtle hatchlings appears to have swung the case for smart lighting along the coast in Queensland, in Australia. A short strip of street lighting in the Shire of Livingstone, a small coastal locality near the city of Rockhampton in Central Queensland, has...

From vehicles to vaccines (and BLE to NB-IoT): five key asset tracking use cases

1 | FedEx + BLE – for tracking vaccine shipments FedEx has introduced a new Bluetooth based asset tracking system in time for anticipated shipping of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as for other emergency pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. Customers in the aerospace and retail sectors will...