For IoT developers, safely testing products, sharing experiences, and understanding how to overcome complex challenges are critical to designing functional technologies. Community networks offer a great avenue for developers to share their information with a larger audience.
Community networks, such as The Things Network, Helium,...
Italian-American IoT module maker Telit has followed up its deal for the cellular IoT division of French firm Thales with the purchase of California-based custom IoT solutions startup Mobilogix for an undisclosed fee. The acquisition has closed already, said Telit. Mobilogix will make Telit...
Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, available here.
So what happens behind the ‘green curtain’, exactly? What is the trick that non-cellular IoT leader Semtech is looking to pull off with its purchase of cellular IoT maker Sierra Wireless? Or rather, how...
There is a temptation to view this deal as symbolic, somehow, suggests Enterprise IoT Insights; that with the purchase of cellular IoT champ Sierra Wireless, Semtech is stepping beyond the enduringly fragmented, slightly disjointed, vaguely dysfunctional unlicensed low-power end of the wide-area (LPWA) IoT...
IoT Ventures selected Semtech to supply LoRa devices for its Drought Early Warning System, a network of low-cost rainwater tank and rain monitors
IoT semiconductor company Semtech announced a collaboration with New Zealand’s IoT Ventures and global connectivity provider Lacuna Space.
As part of this collaboration,...
The IoT hardware market has, suddenly, shrunk – in order to expand, and to rebalance the western power-play. So say market watchers, reacting to the twin acquisitions this week by US-based chipmaker and Semtech, which has confirmed a deal to splurge $1.2 billion on...
There were two high profile pieces of M&A news in the IoT hardware space in the last week. First up, on Friday 29th July, Telit and Thales announced that they were combining the assets of Telit with those of Thales’ IoT hardware business into...
Well, it didn’t take long; “advanced talks” between Semtech and Sierra Wireless, as reported yesterday, have quickly concluded, with US firm Semtech confirming a deal to acquire its Canadian counterpart for $1.2 billion. The deal, subject to final approval, will bring together Semtech’s LoRa/LoRaWAN...
Note, this article has been superseded (see report here), following conclusion of the agreement between Semtech and Sierra Wireless.
US and Canadian firms Semtech and Sierra Wireless have confirmed they are engaged in "advanced discussions" about a potential transaction, with Semtech looking to purchase Sierra...
Swedish ferry company Stena Line has deployed a dual-band LoRa/LoRaWAN-based network, with IoT gateways and devices in unlicensed spectrum, on its Stena Hollandica roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) passenger ferry, following work by US chipmaker and LoRa-owner Semtech, together with Netherlands-based IoT companies SkyLab and HeNet. The...
Semtech, the steward of LoRa-based hardware production, picked up the baton at LoRaWAN World Expo last week (see more here: LoRaWAN goes pop) to further relay the message that low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT technologies, headed by its own LoRaWAN entry, present the best...
The LoRa Alliance expects over 2,000 delegates in Paris next week (July 6-7) for the LoRaWAN World Expo, billed as its first global jamboree event for the LoRaWAN community, and the wider IoT market beyond. It is set to be, by some margin, the...
It has been a month since Unabiz was declared the new owner of IoT tech provider and network operator Sigfox. And it has been a couple of weeks (such is the workload) since Enterprise IoT Insights was passed a shareholders’ note from the Sigfox...
Bouygues Telecom has announced it will shut down its LoRaWAN network in France from 2024, and start to sell new IoT business and migrate existing IoT accounts to its cellular-based NB-IoT and LTE-M networks. Following the bankruptcy last month of rival IoT firm Sigfox,...
Note, this article was updated with additional information on March 2.
Nine companies have entered bids for ailing IoT firm Sigfox, as the deadline for its sale passed last Friday (February 25). Bidders include Singapore-based IoT house and early front-runner UnaBiz, which had confirmed...
Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights, Hybrid Low-Power IoT – How The IoT Industry Is Balancing Function And Efficiency. The report is available here, or by clicking on the image at the bottom of the page....
Singapore-based UnaBiz is in “pole position” to pick up the tech assets of troubled IoT firm Sigfox, in receivership, as a number of other groups and organisations also prepare bids before the auction process closes on February 25. Others in the frame include US...
The penny has dropped – IoT is not a winner-takes-all market. Increasingly, IoT solution providers are looking to mix and match low-power IoT technologies to serve complex use cases and drive efficiencies. This report discusses the combination, variously, of wide-area IoT (LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT, LTE-M),...
The penny has dropped – IoT is not a winner-takes-all market. Increasingly, IoT solution providers are looking to mix and match low-power IoT technologies to serve complex use cases and drive efficiencies.
This report discusses the combination, variously, of wide-area IoT (LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT, LTE-M),...
The narrative about the environmental impact of disposable IoT (see here and here; check back for upcoming report on The Green Credentials of 5G and IoT), begs the question, of course; how many, exactly? How massive does ‘massive IoT’ get? And how big is...
Singapore-headquartered terrestrial IoT provider UnaBiz has struck a deal with Kinéis, a France-based satellite IoT spin-off from the French Space Agency (CNES), with a view to provide satellite IoT connectivity for the logistics and transportation industries. Kinéis was created in 2018 by CNES and...
The LoRa Alliance has added a number of new testing capabilities to its LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT), for device makers to pre-test the performance of IoT solutions before seeking formal certification from a LoRa Alliance Authorized Test House (ATH). New capabilities in the...
We are a little slow off the mark with this one, but there was a notable missive last week from Amazon about IoT network-building in the US, as the firm announced a new LoRa bridge device, by its own smart-home security subsidiary Ring, to...
Satellite IoT is everywhere, suddenly. Further to Inmarsat’s L-band satellite IoT solution with energy firm RWE in the UK, and LoRaWAN outfit Senet’s arrangement on satellite IoT tracking with Eutelsat yesterday (January 12), California-based chip maker Semtech Corporation has announced a further initiative with...
