After a hectic 18 months, following its acquisition of French IoT networking company Sigfox in April last year, Taiwan-based Unabiz has been forced into a cost-cutting drive with “several dozen” roles in Toulouse and Taipei to be axed by Christmas. The firm told partners...
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...
Germany-based IoT company Dryad Networks, offering a planet-saving wildfire protection solution, and talked about in these pages a year ago as a “superstar on the LoRaWAN circuit”, continues to pick up useful-sounding contracts with government agencies, municipal authorities, forestry trusts, and private landowners variously...
Note: this article is continued from a previous entry, available here, which went under the headline: ‘If you want 100% cellular, then you get what you get’ – why hybrid IoT is the only IoT.
Where were we? Oh yes; this idea that governments, regulators,...
Network operator Hutchison Drei (Three) in Austria is rolling out a nationwide LoRaWAN network in its home work to provide industrial IoT connectivity for Industry 4.0 use cases, including for manufacturing companies, energy companies, solution providers, smart cities, retail companies, and facility management services....
Netherlands-based LoRaWAN operator Everynet is offering network access in the US and the UK via AWS’s managed LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS) on its AWS IoT Core service. The deal means IoT devices can be connected to its public LoRaWAN in the US and the...
France-based startup Dracula Technologies, offering low-light energy-harvesting solutions for passive (battery-less) LoRaWAN-based IoT connectivity, has confirmed its new smart factory will start “high-volume” production in “early 2024”. The new 2,500 metre-square facility, in Valence in southeastern France, is to be fully automated, with capacity...
Note: this the second part of an introduction to a forthcoming editorial report on smart meters, covering how ‘IoT has changed up a gear in the utilities market’. The report will be available next month. RCR Wireless will host a webinar on the same...
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...
Meanwhile in other Sigfox news, Sigfox-parent Unabiz has sold a large-scale LoRaWAN network to a major shopping mall in the northeast of Singapore. NEX, a seven-storey shopping mall at the Serangoon bus station, located where the city-state’s Northeast and Circle metro lines cross, has...
Some of the best ideas in IoT… Scratch that; some of the most important innovations in the whole tech game… Actually, scratch all of that; if everything in the end is going to be connected in an internet-of-things (whatever that is), then some of...
Orange has committed to non-cellular IoT connectivity technology LoRaWAN “beyond 2027”. The France-based mobile operator effectively told the SIDO Lyon, the major France-based IoT and AI trade fair, today (September 20) that it will continue to support the development of its public LoRaWAN network...
Deutsche Telekom is offering non-cellular LoRaWAN, as well as satellite-based cellular IoT, as part of its expanded global IoT proposition for connecting data-only embedded SIMs (eSIMs) in both low-power (LPWA) and also high-power wide-area IoT applications. It said it has integrated distributed LoRaWAN “more...
The big message from the big massacre in ‘massive’ IoT – which has seen high-takes vendors written-down and high-stakes gamblers written-off – is that it is not a massacre at all. It is a general abandonment; a yellow-bellied resignation by the self-appointed commanders in...
“You can't just put on a hoodie and be down with the kids.” RCR Wireless is in conversation with Wienke Giezeman, co-founder and chief executive at The Things Industries, the Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN collective selling middleware and tooling into the hyperactive low-power end of the...
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...
US building monitoring company ProSentry is taking a LoRaWAN IoT system from IoT service provider Senet in order to deploy and manage private LoRaWAN networks to support IoT monitoring in residential and commercial buildings. ProSentry’s new LoRaWAN-based IoT monitoring proposition includes water and gas...
The LoRa Alliance has trumpeted growth in the Asia Pacific region, ahead of its bi-annual meetup in Tokyo in October. It claimed “millions of sensors” have been added in the region in the first half of 2023 on the backs of “large projects” in...
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...
MachineQ has launched a number of new active RFID asset tracking tags for indoor positioning, along with a new IoT occupancy monitoring solution. They are an extension of its hybrid Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and LoRaWAN real-time location system (RTLS) combo-solution, launched last year....
Patrick Griffin, Chief Product Officer, Heliot Europe, the largest Sigfox network operator in the European Union; here, he expands on the importance of the new unlicensed LPWAN working group proposing a new 0G-WAN standard to deliver network redundancy, reliability, and scale to support a...
Sigfox has officially joined the LoRa Alliance – as a contributing member, no less. The French-born ultra-narrowband IoT network tech – once (long ago) the darling of the European IoT startup scene, until its money-shredding decline and desperate fire-sale at the start of 2022...
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...
Sooner or later, it all comes down to money – and there just aren’t that many clear-cut use cases to bankroll a private 5G deployment. That is the consensus. Yes, industrial AR for remote assistance, reliable mobility for AGVs and AMRs, and, most convincingly,...
