Global revenues from cellular IoT modules increased by 58 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021, compared with the year-ago period, with more than 40 percent of the total revenue in the period in China. 5G-based IoT modules contributed to nearly a quarter of...
Sierra Wireless’ Smart Connectivity service offers access to over 600 partner networks in over 190 countries
Sierra Wireless has announced an expanded agreement with U.S. carrier T-Mobile, with the aim of boosting its global Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) connectivity offering via its Smart Connectivity...
Swedish tracker company C Security Systems has appointed Orange Business Services, together with its bandmates in the recently-formed IoT Continuum initiative, to accelerate delivery of LTE-M trackers in Europe. C Security Systems, headquartered in Stockholm, specializes in tracking devices for boats, pets, and agricultural...
The consumer smartphone market was the first market to be disrupted by 5G. Today, wireless providers, smartphone vendors, and app developers are already providing a wide variety of 5G-based products and services, and beginning to make the easily available, super-fast personal connectivity promised in...
Orange has banded together with hardware, software, design, and manufacturing companies in the IoT space to accelerate deployment of cellular IoT in Europe. Canadian module maker Sierra Wireless, French-Italian chip maker STMicroelectronics, and French manufacturing and design firm Lacroix are its new crewmates, working...
The EM9190 and EM9191 are industrial-grade 5G sub-6/LTE NR modules
Sierra Wireless has completed the testing of its 5G Sub-6/LTE NR embedded modules — the EM9190 and the EM9191 — with NTT DoCoMo on its 5G network in Japan. Now, customers can deploy connected...
Global cellular IoT module shipments increased by 14% in 2020, reaching 303 million, according to a recent Berg Insight report. Even though the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was felt by the industry, the result represents a new record level of shipments. In 2019,...
IoT module maker Sierra Wireless has announced a new family of embedded 5G modules, compliant with the latest Release 16 (R16) version of the 5G standard, for routers, gateways, and industrial IoT devices. The forthcoming EM92 series will bring the cost of 5G-based IoT...
Businesses are becoming more reliant on their IoT connectivity as services evolve, with greater emphasis on overall cost reductions as well as increasing revenue expectations. It is one thing to select the most appropriate IoT connectivity to fulfill the needs of an IoT project,...
Barcelona-based IoT antenna company Fractus Antennas has rebranded as Ignion. The company has reissued its mission statement, to establish its proprietary off-the-shelf multiband ‘virtual antenna’ chip technology as a driver for faster, cheaper IoT development, and a spur for ‘massive’ scale IoT deployments.
Industry veteran...
Sierra Wireless has unveiled a new 5G-capable vehicle router which it says is the industry's first multi-network 5G vehicle networking solutions for mission-critical applications, including use by first responders, field service and transportation.
The AirLink MG90 5G platform leverages 4G networks and will automatically connect...
IoT provider Sierra Wireless has been selected by IoT tracking firm Ekatra to underpin its industrial tank monitoring solution, which is geared particularly towards fertilizer tanks in the farming industry. Ekatra has integrated the Cabadian firm’s ‘full-stack’ Octave IoT platform into its new product,...
With the sunset of 3G technology imminent, now is the time to consider upgrading your devices. With only months until sunset, there are some decisions to be made and moving to LTE isn’t quite as plug and play as the move from 2G to...
Cloudification of IoT accelerates
Philippe Guillemette, chief technology officer, Sierra Wireless:
“The complexities that companies experience building out and maintaining IoT infrastructure has hindered growth of the sector, leading to the failure of as many as 75 per cent of IoT projects.
“However, in 2020, we will see an...
What will it take to get users who are still holding onto 3G rate plans and devices to give them up so carriers can re-farm 3G spectrum?
More compelling 4G rates plans, for one, according to new analysis by OpenSignal. The network and device performance...
Sierra Wireless has released its new Octave IoT platform, first announced in June as an integrated offer with Microsoft’s Azure IoT cloud solution. It claims the platform is "unique" as the only ‘full-stack’ IoT package on the market, combining hardware, connectivity, and management software...
Sierra Wireless expects revenues from its IoT solutions business to expand by more than 12% year-on-year during 2019, the company’s President and CEO Kent Thexton said during a conference call with investors.
In February, Thexton had said that the company was forecasting an annual growth...
With all the talk about 5G these days, it can be hard to decipher what is applicable for IoT applications, when it will be available, and what the transition looks like for platforms currently on 2G, 3G, or 4G technologies. The good news is...
Buzz in the IoT market regarding Citizens Broadband Radio Services (CBRS) is building. In July 2018, the FCC released a public notice outlining the procedures and deadlines for submitting proposals for commercial deployments of networks on the 3.5 GHz CBRS band.
However, there remains a...
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A future for...
Well established North American and European manufacturers of M2M and IoT devices have seen their share of global shipments slip by 15 per cent in the last 12 months as Chinese vendors have flooded the market with low-value 2G kit, and ramped up their...
Needham-based industrial software maker PTC has come top in a series of reviews of industrial IoT (IIoT) platform providers. Its ThingWorx proposition has been consistently identified by analysts in 2018 as a leading platform for digital transformation.
PTC also topped Gartner’s inaugural ‘magic quadrant’ for...
The Chinese vendor said the new product doubles the cell capacity of previous terminals
Huawei has launched what it claims to be the world's first 3GPP Release 14-based commercial NB-IoT solution in eRAN13.1.
Huawei said that this new NB-IoT solution increases data rates by a factor...
Over the past decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed logistics, enabling shippers to track the location of assets as they move through the supply chain — in real-time, if necessary. However, although enterprises have become savvy at using the IoT to track...
