Vodafone has launched a new IoT platform for UK water companies to consolidate data from disparate industrial sensors and systems into a single management plane. The solution, which wraps in design and supply of new IoT gadgetry, allows water companies to prolong the life...
AT&T has teamed up with Belfast-based SIM specialist Kigen, spun-out of chip design company Arm at the end of last year, to allow cellular IoT device makers to source integrated SIM solutions earlier in the manufacturing process. This includes at the point of contract...
Let’s cut to the chase: will Sigfox and LoRaWAN, painted as arch rivals at the low-power end of the IoT space, ever be combined into a single IoT solution? Will the owners of these twin technologies, which have propped up large parts of the...
Vodafone UK has restated its commitment to NB-IoT and doubled the number of sites in its narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) network to meet increasing demand for IoT services, it says. The firm claims its NB-IoT network in the UK now covers 98 percent of the...
KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom, flush from an injection of new funds from Hitachi and Sony Group, has launched a new platform to allow IoT developers to connect devices using Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and satellite connectivity, as well as low-power wide-area (LPWA) cellular technologies, including...
KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has announced new investment from six technology firms, including from two major IoT customers, in the form Nippon Gas (NICIGAS) and Sourcenext Corporation in the Japanese utility industry, as well as from Japan-based trio Hitachi, Secom, and Sony Group,...
China-based IoT module maker SIMCom is offering its SIM7070 series NB-IoT device with an embedded SIM (eSIM) from German chipmaker Infineon, making the 24 mm x 24 mm SIM7070 the most compact eSIM-enabled module on the market. It is “significantly smaller” than standard eSIM-based...
IoT traffic on latest-generation mobile ‘broadband’ 4G and 5G infrastructure will outrun IoT traffic on old-generation ‘broadband’ 3G and old-school 2G networks in 2021, reckons Ericsson. The terminology gets confusing, but the message from the Swedish vendor’s latest ‘mobility report’ is IoT momentum is...
China Telecom claimed to be the world's largest carrier for NB-IoT, after the operator announced it has reached the 100 million connections milestone.
"After five years of extensive development, China Telecom has made breakthroughs in network coverage, user scale, platform services, chip modules, and industrial...
IoT module maker Telit has introduced a new cloud-based platform called Telit NExT to give service providers and enterprise users access to cellular IoT networks in 190 countries. The product, presented as a ‘core network’, taps into roaming agreements with around 600 networks globally,...
Note this story is continued from a previous post, asking if it is 'time for Sigfox and LoRaWAN to call a truce – and team up'. The previous entry can be found here.
Sometimes, the argument is so passionate and the logic is so...
The Fraunhofer Society, the largest application-oriented research organisation in Europe, has given its annual prize for outstanding scientific achievement to the novel low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology MIOTY, being lined up as a rival to LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, and Sigfox in the market for battery-powered IoT...
The town of Scarborough in Maine, in the US, has migrated its smart street lights onto a cloud management platform from California-headquartered Dhyan Networks and Technologies, and away from smart lighting company Echelon.
The firm said its central management software (CMS) has allowed the town...
Deutsche Telekom has positioned itself as a system integrator (SI) in the emerging private 5G market for Industry 4.0, via a deal with AWS for managed edge infrastructure and services. It has also released a couple of all-in packages for factory and warehouse-based AI...
India’s largest operator, Bharti Airtel, announced the launch of an integrated IoT platform for local enterprises.
The telco said that the platform, dubbed "Airtel IoT" is an end-to-end platform with the capability to connect and manage billions of devices and applications.
The platform uses Airtel’s 5G-ready...
Nokia has deployed an NB-IoT network for mobile network operator Saudi Mobily in the 800 MHz band in Saudi Arabia. The pair said they have connected more than 4,000 sites, with radius coverage of 20 kilometres per cell.
The software on Mobily’s existing LTE base...
Despite being hailed as a breakthrough technology, NB-IoT connectivity has so far failed to live up to its initial hype, with delayed deployments, and connections currently in the millions, rather than the billions promised.
Applicable to anything static or mobile which can support a sensor...
Australian network operator Telstra is to deploy weather stations on its NB-IoT network infrastructure in Queensland, in the northeast of the country, in order to create a hyper-local weather data and forecast system for farmers in the region.
The pilot project is being organised with...
Deutsche Telekom has said it is now offering NB-IoT connectivity in 20 countries and LTE-M in 10 countries. The company has outlined new cellular IoT contracts for water irrigation with Spanish manufacturer Hidroconta, in-building lighting with German lighting specialist Fischer Akkumulatorentechnik, storm damage monitoring...
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...
Canadian operator TELUS has launched a global cellular IoT roaming service with IoT connectivity management provider Eseye, and pumped £15 million (CAD$26.3m, USD$20.88m) of investment into the UK-based firm at the same time.
The new roaming service, a white-labelled version version of Eseye’s AnyNet platform,...
Among the many things we’ve learned during the era of Covid-19 is the importance of efficient, reliable, and always-available healthcare services. The urgency of the pandemic has not only spurred innovation and progress but has shined a bright light on the promise of healthcare...
Sony Semiconductor Israel has released a new cellular IoT chipset for NB-IoT networks. The firm’s low-power Altair ALT1255 chipset is designed for LTE Cat NB2 devices, running the Release 14 version of the NB-IoT protocol. It is geared for low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT devices...
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...
