BROWSING: M2M

Audi vehicle-to-infrastructure technology talks to traffic lights

Audi's Traffic Light Information technology enables a car to communicate with traffic light infrastructure in select cities across the United States. The car receives real-time signal information from advanced traffic management systems that monitor traffic lights via an onboard LTE data connection. When approaching a connected traffic...

Arrow Electronics inks deal with Vodafone to target IoT

Arrow to market and sell network services tailored for customer applications. Arrow Electronics inked an agreement with Vodafone to market the latter’s “internet of things” services as part of its EVolve IoT offering. The agreement between the two companies creates a new offering...

Machine learning is leading the way to a smarter internet of things

What is machine learning and what can it do? You step into the tennis section of your local sports store looking for a new racket when a notification alerts you of a coupon on Wilson products. Something must have picked up your location along with...

Machine learning is leading the way to a smarter internet of things

What is machine learning and what can it do? You step into the tennis section of your local sports store looking for a new racket when a notification alerts you of a coupon on Wilson products. Something must have picked up your location along with...

Reality Check: 10 things to keep in mind for when cellular networks meet IoT devices

The IoT market is rapidly encroaching on the cellular world, but steps needs to be taken to make sure the two can work together. Over the last two decades, we’ve seen a significant increase in the number of devices designed and...

OPC: An IIoT interface standard for industrial data sharing

OPC, standards for the IIoT Making data actionable by moving it away from machines and onto software is a fundamental challenge for the industrial "internet of things." Looking to tackle that challenge is the object linking and embedding for process control standard, which is a...

OPC: An IIoT interface standard for industrial data sharing

OPC, standards for the IIoT Making data actionable by moving it away from machines and onto software is a fundamental challenge for the industrial "internet of things." Looking to tackle that challenge is the object linking and embedding for process control standard, which is a...

Future Electronics hoping to benefit from Gemalto M2M, IoT portfolio

Future Electronics announces new franchise agreement with Gemalto Future Electronics, a supplier of electronics components, recently announced a new franchise agreement with Gemalto. The new agreement includes Gemalto’s portfolio of machine-to-machine products, cellular technologies and "internet of things" solutions. “The addition of Gemalto to our line...

Future Electronics hoping to benefit from Gemalto M2M, IoT portfolio

Future Electronics announces new franchise agreement with Gemalto Future Electronics, a supplier of electronics components, recently announced a new franchise agreement with Gemalto. The new agreement includes Gemalto’s portfolio of machine-to-machine products, cellular technologies and "internet of things" solutions. “The addition of Gemalto to our line...

Analyst Angle: How did M2M migrate into IoT?

The simple answer is “the addition of people.” IoT now has a very broad swath covering many vertical markets as well as consumer embedded. There’s an old adage in marketing that rapidly expanding markets always segment. A hundred years ago you had the car or...

What is a service level agreement and what’s the SLA place in IoT

Defining SLA and examples of its coverage A service level agreement is a contract between the provider of a service and its internal or external end-user or customer that defines what services the provider will offer and the level of performance it must meet as...

What is a service level agreement and what’s the SLA place in IoT

Defining SLA and examples of its coverage A service level agreement is a contract between the provider of a service and its internal or external end-user or customer that defines what services the provider will offer and the level of performance it must meet as...

AT&T helps save 15 billion gallons of water by connecting IoT

Landscape irrigation, a wasteful endeavor For decades, landscape irrigation in homes and commercial properties has been controlled by timers or manual valves without the ability to regulate how much water is being used. This has led irrigation to become the most wasteful method in urban water...

AT&T helps save 15 billion gallons of water by connecting IoT

Landscape irrigation, a wasteful endeavor For decades, landscape irrigation in homes and commercial properties has been controlled by timers or manual valves without the ability to regulate how much water is being used. This has led irrigation to become the most wasteful method in urban water...

Consultancies merge to expand IoT strategy offerings

Mirroring continued consolidation in the telecom industry as a whole, this week two major market strategy and consultancies, 151 Advisors and James Brehm and Associates, joined forces under the 151 Advisors brand name. The new combined company, with a global workforce of more than...

T-Mobile to launch NB-IoT network in major cities across the Netherlands

T-Mobile Netherlands notes planned NB-IoT network set to launch next week to be initially available in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Eindhoven Dutch mobile operator T-Mobile Netherlands confirmed its narrowband “internet of things” network will be commercially available in major cities across the country starting...

T-Mobile to launch NB-IoT network in major cities across the Netherlands

T-Mobile Netherlands notes planned NB-IoT network set to launch next week to be initially available in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Eindhoven Dutch mobile operator T-Mobile Netherlands confirmed its narrowband “internet of things” network will be commercially available in major cities across the country starting...

Reader Forum: The road to IoT dominance – how to capitalize on the IoT opportunity (Pt. 1)

There are ample IoT opportunities for communication service providers if they have the right plan in place to capitalize on the opportunity This is the first article in a three-part series examining the opportunity, challenges and course of action for service providers as they tackle...

Developing a health care IoT solution to monitor vaccine temperatures

Keeping vaccines cold Dulas, a renewable energy provider, sought a machine-to-machine (M2M) solution that would allow it to record and report the temperature inside vaccine refrigerators to prevent the vaccines from losing their potency, according to a case study provided by IoT One. Applying IoT technology to vaccine storage...

Ingenu deploys LPWA IoT network in South Africa

U.S.-based Ingenu has deployed a LPWA IoT network in South Africa, and announced a new smart city platform. Ingenu announced the deployment of a Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) Internet of Things (IoT) network using the company’s proprietary Random Phase Multiple Access (RPMA) technology in...

Nokia to open testing facility for drone traffic management

Located at the Twente Airport in the Netherlands, drone tests will focus on real-world drone simulations Finnish vendor Nokia will be in charge of the deployment of Europe's first dedicated testing facility for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for traffic management. Nokia’s testing...

T-Mobile IoT plans target AT&T 2G shut down

With AT&T’s plans to shutter its 2G network set for year-end, T-Mobile is offering free SIM cards and service in attempt to lure connections T-Mobile US is looking to exploit AT&T Mobility’s upcoming plans to shutter its 2G network in an attempt to bolster its...

Intel acquires Movidius to accelerate machine vision strategy

Intel announced its intention to acquire machine vision specialist Movidius, to further strengthen its position within computer vision, deep learning. In a move to strengthen its position in the growing computer vision market, Intel announced its intention to acquire machine vision specialist Movidius. Machine vision uses cameras...

What is Zigbee and where does it fit into the IoT?

What is ZigBee? ZigBee is a low-power wireless local area network (WLAN) specification that was designed to provide small amounts of data using very little power, with most connected devices running off of a battery. Because of this, the open standard has been linked with...