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The four principle LPWA connectivity techologies for IoT deployments

The internet of things (IoT) is gathering momentum in the enterprise space. Analyst firm Machina Research anticipates there will be three billion low-power wide-area (LPWA) connections by 2025, and Analysys Mason forecasts LPWA technologies will generate $5 billion globally in connectivity revenue by 2025....

Cisco in pole, as Newcastle prepares to pick a partner to make it the UK’s smartest city

The city of Newcastle in the UK will procure a “technological partner” after the summer to set down the infrastructure to help it develop its connectivity and sensor capabilities and make it the “UK’s leading smart city,” it has said. Cisco appears to be...

European cellular IoT market to grow 384% by 2023, but telcos warned of LoRa, Sigfox

The European market for cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communications will grow to 416.5 million connections by 2023, from 86 million at the end of 2017, according to ABI Research. This growth, of 384 per cent, will come with the launch of new internet-of-things (IoT) based...

The market is too fragmengted, even for the punk ethos of IoT, says LoRaWAN leader TTN

The LoRaWAN movement has something of the do-it-yourself ethos of punk music in the late 1970s. The Things Network (TTN), an Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN curation project, is one of its leaders, offering a simplified set of 'internet-of-things' (IoT) connectivity solutions and developer tools, and a...

Design, not price, will drive 2019 adoption of cellular IoT, says Nordic Semiconductor

The adoption of cellular internet-of-things (IoT) technologies is not being slowed by the high price of chipsets, but by the complexity of their design, reckons chip supplier Nordic Semiconductor. Module design is the ultimate barrier to adoption of licensed low-power wider-area (LPWA) technologies like narrowband...

The top 10 smart cities – ranked according to their infrastructure and potential

New research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, we consider the fist of these measures - the top 10 smart cities, globally,...

Senet claims LoRaWAN in 80 markets, invites towercos to join its LPWA market

US IoT company Senet has expanded its LoRaWAN capabilities to over 80 markets. It has also introduced a raft of server enhancements for its LoRaWAN platform, to simplify the deployment, management and monetisation of LoRaWAN-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks and applications. Senet claimed it now...

Smart city alliance looks to establish open source LPWA interface and mesh network

A group of internet-of-things (IoT) companies has established an alliance with cities and utilities to develop an open source wireless interface and data format for low-power wide-area (LPWA) solutions in the smart city and smart energy markets. It also wants to  The non-profit uCIFI Alliance...

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,...

LoRaWAN initiatives combine to create UK’s largest free-to-use LPWA network

UK tech incubator Digital Catapult has meshed its Things Connected LoRaWAN network in with the UK footprint of Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN project The Things Network (TTN). The result is the UK’s largest free-to-use low-power wide-area (LPWA) network deployment and innovation community, according to its architects. UK...

Ericsson doubles five-year IoT forecast to 3.5bn LTE-M and NB-IoT connections

Cellular ‘internet-of-thing’ (IoT) connections will reach 3.5 billion by 2023, from around 0.6 billion million today, with compound annual growth of 30 per cent per year, according to Ericsson, with most take-up in the industrial and automotive markets. In total, Ericsson predicts 19.8 billion...

NB-IoT and LTE-M to usurp unlicensed LPWA as the go-to choice for IoT by 2023

The rate of growth of licensed low-power, wide-area (LPWA) network connections will outpace their unlicensed equivalents as the LPWA market swells by 53 per cent per year over the next five years. By 2023, NB-IoT and LTE-M will capture more than 55 per cent...

Sigfox and HERE combine to offer global location services to logistics companies

Sigfox has struck a deal with mapping company HERE to create a global internet-of-things (IoT) location service for the supply chain and logistics industry. The deal will see Sigfox’s low-power wide-area (LPWA) network and geolocation engine supplemented Wi-Fi hotspot coverage from Dutch firm HERE, owned...

DT and Voda run first NB-IoT roaming tests, as licensed LPWA networks hit 51

European operators Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone have completed the first international roaming trial in Europe using narrowband ‘internet-of-things’ (NB-IoT) technology, according to the GSMA. The trade body said 29 mobile operators have launched 51 commercial licensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, running either of the...

Google Cloud joins LoRa Alliance to bolster IoT analytics and insights

Google Cloud has joined the LoRa Alliance as a sponsor member. Its input will help LoRaWAN operators glean deeper insights from data analytics running in their low-power wide-area (LPWA) ‘internet of things’ (IoT) networks, said the LoRa Alliance. Donna Moore, chief executive of the LoRa...

Sigfox group WND debates LPWA money-making with Verizon and Proximus

The choice between licensed and unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity technologies is about use cases, concurred a panel of ‘internet of things’ (IoT) operators at LPWA World in London this week. But if both technologies fit, as they do in most cases, the choice...

Actility underpins rollout of state-run open-access IoT networks in Sweden

IoT platform provider Actility has been appointed by Öresundskraft, a regional energy and fibre broadband provider in Sweden, to help it build out an open-access LoRaWAN network, starting in the town of Helsingborg, and rolling out across the country. Öresundskraft has established a new ‘city...

Sigfox partner deploys LPWA network in Hong Kong

Thinxtra said the LPWA network will have a total of 100 base stations by June 2018 Asian company Thinxtra has announced the launch of a territory-wide low-power wide-area (LPWA) network in Hong Kong that connects to French IoT connectivity provider Sigfox networks in 36 other...

Cellular connectivity LPWA standards for IoT – debunking the myths

Arm’s mission to scale and grow the IoT ecosystem, by providing the secure architecture that underpins end-devices, puts us in a unique position in our industry as being broadly connectivity agnostic. After discussing cellular IoT at length across numerous continents and conferences with our ecosystem...

Actility bringing new vehicle tracking solution to the U.S.

The new offering combines Abeeway tracker hardware with Actility IoT platform and Cisco gateways Actility, a French company which specializes in low power wide area networks (LPWAN) and location solutions, has launched a vehicle tracking solution for the U.S. market. The offering combines Abeeway Master Tracker...

Actility using platform for precision agriculture project

Australia’s Connected Country Network will use Actility’s ThingPark platform for precision agriculture functions like remote monitoring of soil conditions French firm Actility, which specializes in low-power, wide-area (LPWA) networks for the internet of things (IoT), announced that its ThingPark platform is powering the roll out...

LPWA deployments starting to gain traction, GSMA says

Operators deploying LPWA technology include AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and Chinese telcos The deployment of LPWA solutions is starting to gain traction with the recent developments by some leading operators including AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom (DT), Verizon and Vodafone,...

Telenor launches experimental IoT offering in Norway

Telenor to set up a physical LPWA experimental network and provide free development kits to startups, students and developers for testing. Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor Group unveiled an experimental internet of things offering in Norway, dubbed Telenor Start IoT. The service is set to...

Ingenu expands IoT connectivity across parts of 5 states

Ingenu said its Machine Network is now available in New Mexico, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina. Ingenu said it has expanded coverage of its internet of things-focused network across parts of five states, pushing total coverage of its low-power wide area...