Cloud communications platform company Twilio said that it is powering its first commercial narrowband internet of things deployment in the United States by Sensoneo, a smart waste management solution provider.
Sensoneo solutions use smart
waste monitoring sensors which enable cities and businesses to optimize waste
collection.
Sensoneo’s...
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The case for industrial IoT in the power market, both sides of the meter,...
The installed base of smart electricity meters in Asia’s
four main markets will reach almost 966 million in 2024, up from 613.4 million
last year, according to a new a research report from Sweden-based IoT analyst
firm Berg Insight.
The study revealed that the installed base of smart
electricity...
Italian carrier Wind Tre expects to fully complete a 5G trial with Chinese vendor ZTE before the end of this year, the operator’s CTO Benoit Hanssen told RCR Wireless News.
“Since 5G deployment picked up speed in 2017, the Italian government has piloted 5G in...
Three quarters of the IoT market will be given over to low-power wide-area (LPWA) network solutions, compared with just one quarter for high-bandwidth low-latency 5G applications.
So says the LoRa Alliance, which continues to push its line about being the key technology in low-power...
The number of cellular IoT connections, mostly to machines, will continue to outrun the number of 5G connections, mostly to people, for at least five years. Ericsson predicts cellular IoT connections will reach 4.1 billion by 2024, compared with 1.9 billion 5G connections.
According...
As we have heard, the UK’s 5G RuralFirst project is trying to do with 5G (or 5G-related tech) what the telecoms industry has failed to do with previous generations, and connect the unconnected, including farming communities looking for a digital edge.
It is transformative...
LoRa and Sigfox have maintained and extended their market-share lead over their cellular equivalents LTE-M and NB-IoT, as the latter technologies have been “plagued by network hardware and connectivity module issues. LoRa has been boosted by the rollout of private networks, and Sigfox remains...
Deutsche Telekom has teamed up with logistics company Rhenus and the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (Fraunhofer IML) to develop an NB-IoT connected smart bins for disposing of sensitive documents.
An NB-IoT sensor in the containers issues a signal to Deutsche Telekom’s cloud-based...
The biggest fragmentation in smart agriculture is with base-line connectivity, which establishes the platform for the analytics and automation tools that will change farming.
“Connectivity is a neccessary evil,” says Pete DeNagy, president and co-founder, Internet of Things America. “No business is advantaged by...
Certain functions of smart farming will not work on low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, even while technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT tend to support most smart agricultural technologies, as they exist today.
LTE and even 5G networks are required to provide total coverage of fields, in...
Canadian telecoms operator Rogers announced plans to launch narrow-band internet of things (NB-IoT) technology in the country, the carrier said in a release.
The telco said that NB-IoT will
allow IoT devices and sensors to send and receive small amounts of data over
long distances, with very...
Two million farms and 36 million cattle will be connected to the internet by low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, and other technologies, by 2024. This is the calculation from analyst house ABI Research, in a new report that considers the opportunity for internet-of-things (IoT) technologies...
Vodafone's approach to the digital transformation of industry prioritises certain ‘vertical’ markets. Agriculture is not among them. Instead, it sees greater opportunity at group level in the automotive, insurance, buildings, logistics, and healthcare sectors. These offer “relevance and consistency” across geographic markets, it says,...
Next-generation 5G technology will only appear in the internet-of-things (IoT) market in late 2020, and struggle to find its mark in the space for years afterwards, according to a new report from analyst firm Berg Insight. As late as 2023, just three per cent...
Verizon has formally launched its narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) network in the US, offering an initial entry-level price plan of 50KB of data for $1 per month, shareable across NB-IoT devices on the same plan
Verizon said its NB-IoT network, running in the guard band of...
Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics and compatriot carrier KT announced the a new partnership to deploy what the companies claim is the world’s first Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) service through a public safety LTE (PS-LTE) network, Samsung said in a release.
The NB-IoT service...
AT&T adds second low-power, wide-area IoT network
AT&T has officially launched its narrowband internet of things network in the U.S., which joins its existing LTE-M network to add a second low-power wide-area network option for IoT uses. In a blog post from Chris Penrose, SVP...
Another from the MWC 2019 vaults, which has so far slipped through the gaps of a hectic quarter at Enterprise IoT Insights. This time, we catch up with Cameron Coursey, vice president of IoT product development at AT&T, to discuss how the US carrier...
The original Monarch system-in-package (SiP) from French chipmaker Sequans Communications has been made available Verizon’s ThingSpace IoT ‘accelerator programme’ for just $6.50.
The new price point is a significant advance on the magic $10 mark for IoT chips that was breached in the middle of...
AURORA, COLORADO -- The reality of building out a nationwide cellular network and competing with major mobile network operators seems to be hitting home for DISH Chairman and co--founder Charlie Ergen.
Speaking at the Competitive Carriers Association's Mobile Carrier Show, Ergen said that work...
The entity also said that 140 operators are currently investing in NB-IoT networks globally
A total of 102 operators in 52 countries have already deployed either narrowband internet of things or LTE-M technology, according to a recent study by the Global Mobile Suppliers Association.
Of these,...
At Mobile World Congress, LTE for IoT chip leader Sequans introduced Monarch 2, which is the second generation of its world-leading LTE-M and NB-IoT chip platform, Monarch.
Monarch 2 is built on three years of Sequans’ exclusive and field-proven experience with first-generation Monarch, which has...
NB-IoT connections will comprise the vast majority of cellular IoT by 2021, at up to 75 per cent and around one billion devices, according to Huawei. The number will climb from around 30 million in 2018 to 200 million in 2019, it reckons.
Huawei outlined...
