LoRaWAN

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 …

There will be 108 million IoT connections on private LTE (4G) and 5G networks in the manufacturing sector in 2030, according to a new forecast from ABI Research. Manufacturing will …

The LoRa Alliance, the association of companies steering the open LoRaWAN standard, has released a formal development roadmap to enhance features, simplify deployments, drive interoperability, and raise security. The objective, …

Embedded World 2024, Nuremberg: Barcelona based IoT antenna company Ignion has launched a new “AI-powered” antenna integration platform called Oxion to further shorten the design time for wireless IoT devices. …

UK broadband and digital services provider Connexin and regional UK broadband and connectivity provider NYnet have signed a network sharing and operations agreement to expand LoRaWAN infrastructure across North Yorkshire. …

Japan-based KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, in the third-tier Growth Market section for emerging high-growth companies. Soracom claims to have more than 20,000 …

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 …

Evidence, or indication at least, that the burgeoning market for private networks in Industry 4.0 is as much about local knowhow and boots-on-the-ground as it is about global corporate reach; …

IoT is hard, man. Even talking about it, in any proper detail, is hard. Except if you’re talking with Ray Ozzie – over a breakfast croissant at MWC in Barcelona …

Singapore-based Unabiz, owner of the Sigfox technology, but proceeding as a multi-tech IoT solution provider, has been appointed on a “multi-million” dollar deal to install a private LoRaWAN network to …

French LoRaWAN stalwarts Actility and Kerlink are integrating their LoRaWAN network hardware and connectivity software into a simplified private LoRaWAN network solution to enable “easy” deployment and scalability of industrial …

MWC is a brilliant show, of course. Not because of the big talk and shiny displays, although they are fun, too. But because you can get lost on the main …

Smart label pioneer Sensos, spun-off from Sony Semiconductor Israel last year, has closed a Series A funding round worth $20 million to further develop and commercialise its disposable and degradable …

Netmore Group has acquired US LoRaWAN operator Senet for an undisclosed fee. The deal means the Swedish firm expands its public LoRaWAN footprint outside of Europe, where it has assembled …

UK broadband and digital service provider Connexin has won a deal with utility supplier Essex & Suffolk Water to manage the roll-out of smart meters across the Essex and Suffolk …

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 …

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, …

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 …

Sigfox-owner Unabiz continues to push rival low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technology LoRaWAN as a connectivity platform for major IoT projects, confirming a deal with Singapore-based engineering group GreenA Consultants to …

Some new-year reading, before the 2024 news agenda goes into over-drive; here, the enterprise team at RCR Wireless picks some choice long-form reports from 2023 about all-things IoT (low- and …

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 …

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 …

The total number of cellular IoT connections will reach around three billion at the end of 2023, reckons Ericsson, with most, and the increasing majority, connected on so-called ‘broadband’ cellular …

Note, this article is continued from a previous instalement, available here. There was lots of other good stuff during the Devil’s Advocate session earlier this month at Industrial 5G Forum. …

This session, a couple of weeks ago at Industrial 5G Forum, was presented as a kind-of empire-strikes-back; an opportunity for established connectivity providers to put the boot into this new …