Cameron Coursey, vice president of IoT product development at AT&T, got a laugh from the audience Sunday afternoon at the Mobile IoT Summit, a curtain raiser for Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. “All this talk of putting up walls,” he said. “We’re tearing...
Chip-design company Arm has appointed Vodafone as its global 'bootstrap' provider for NB-IoT and LTE-M devices based on its new line of integrated SIM (iSIM) designs.
Emerging iSIM technology provides enterprises with a programmable, connected system-on-chip design that eliminates the need for traditional SIM cards....
With Nokia’s IoT platform, the Japanese company will be able to offer IoT services for sectors including agriculture, industry and automotive
BARCELONA--Nokia announced that Japanese operator Rakuten has selected its Impact IoT platform for the deployment of internet of things services across Japan.
With the deployment of...
Ericsson has warned Europe will fall further behind North America and Asia on LTE and 5G unless governments and regulators act to accelerate the release of new spectrum and licences.
The Swedish vendor, with an early-morning address at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, refused...
Telstra and Ericsson are combining their cellular IoT and connectivity services, in the shape of the former’s narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M networks and the latter’s IoT Accelerator connectivity and device management platform, respectively. The move will enable the deployment and management of IoT...
A total of 94 commercial narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M have been launched in 50 markets, according to the GSMA’s latest count of low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks operating in licensed spectrum.
This is an increase of 53 mobile IoT networks, or 130 per cent, in...
Rich NB-IoT applications, urging outstanding networks
The booming of IoT is involving more and more vertical industries. The applications are gradually being diversified and differential:
From public utilities to different industries, such as smart home appliances, wearable devices, smart logistics, intelligent transportation;
From fixed deployment...
Sequans Communications has introduced a new version of its Monarch chip platform, combining LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity. The backward-compatible Monarch 2 chip brings a new secure element, a 60-percent boost in power efficiency, higher levels of integration, and lower costs.
Sequans called it the “most...
A number of pre-MWC announcements from variously-aligned IoT vendors, including Spanish and US IoT firms Libelium and Senet, have revealed a truth about the manic IoT sector and a sub-theme of this year’s summit: that the IoT market has gone unchecked, and its protagonists...
The two companies have been testing the use of NB-IoT in Italy since 2017
Italian carrier TIM, along with compatriot company Olivetti, has unveiled a range of services for narrowband internet of things technology.
The operator said that its expansion of NB-IoT connectivity to cover all...
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Nordic Semiconductor is bundling an eSIM with 10MB of data into all its nRF9160 development kits. Network operators buying the company’s dual-mode LTE-M / NB-IoT nRF9160 system-in-package (SiP) can connect their cellular IoT services anywhere in the world, it said.
The eSIM is from international...
This article is taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018.
The report tells the story of smart manufacturing in four chapters. The first two examine the expectations surrounding the IIoT movement (‘The...
Vodafone Idea said it is already testing automatic metering infrastructure at Genus’s R&D facility in Jaipur
Vodafone Idea Business Services, the enterprise arm of Indian carrier Vodafone Idea, has inked a strategic partnership with compatriot firm Genus Power Infra to establish a commercial proof of...
Ericsson has redefined its portfolio and vision for cellular IoT technologies in four categories, including two new segments for Broadband IoT and Industrial Automation IoT.
It said the objective of the exercise is to “outline the evolution” of IoT technologies, to encompass higher-powered LTE and...
The Singaporean telco, together with Noki,a had launched a nationwide NB-IoT network in 2017
Singaporean telco M1 said it will use Nokia’s Impact IoT platform to bolster its carrier’s current smart city and internet of things portfolio.
The carrier said the new addition will allow the...
International carrier services company BICS has gone from a useful clearing house for airtime to a close strategic partner for communications providers of every type. Importantly, the company can bring the rangy 'internet of things' (IoT) market into line for the mobile operator community,...
IoT networking company Sigfox has big plans for 2019. Every IoT company does, of course, but the French firm has set a target to secure 'global' coverage by setting up in China, India, and Russia, finally, and plugging three major gaps in its existing...
SEQUANS | Four new LTE-M / NB-IoT trackers for supply chain, vehicle industries
French chipmaker Sequans is releasing four new IoT trackers for asset and vehicle tracking, among other use cases. The trackers use modules from Shanghai-based Asiatelco, running Sequans’ own Monarch LTE-M and NB-IoT...
French IoT chipmaker Sequans has announced it will embed ‘cloud location over cellular’ (C-LoC) software to its LTE-M and NB-IoT Monarch platform, creating a IoT location solution that does not require GPS/ GNSS, or other radios for positioning. It has worked with C-LoC Polte...
MTS is currently in process to deploy a nationwide NB-IoT network across Russia
Russian telecom operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has launched a smart city pilot project based on an narrowband internet of things network for the housing and utilities sector in Arsk, in the Republic...
Swedish vendor Ericsson is looking at ways to employ artificial intelligence to enable advanced “fingerprinting” of mobile radio networks to enhance the positioning resolution of LTE-M and NB-IoT devices.
The initiative will have implications for both the consumer and enterprise space, it said. However, the...
Under the agreement, Telstra will soon launch Arduino’s new IoT developer board in the Australian market
Telstra has signed a partnership with open source hardware and software ecosystem company Arduino aimed at boosting internet of things growth in Australia.
Under the terms of the agreement, Telstra...
Don’t believe the hype: 5G still likely won’t happen in 2019. Many of the 5G announcements that are getting buzz are just marketing talk. There has actually been only a few tiny deployments of 5G, and those are pre-standard. There are still too many moving...
The carrier said it already operates 1.6 million IoT connections in New Zealand
Vodafone New Zealand has launched its NB-IoT and LTE-M networks in the country, which will allow users to have access to a new range of IoT applications, the carrier said in a...
