US chip-maker Silicon Labs has said it has shipped four million Wirepas sub-GHz RF mesh IoT units for India’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) initiative, to go in smart electricity meters. The Indian government set new rules in 2021 to reduce losses and improve operational...
Czech cloud service provider CRA has taken a LoRaWAN operator platform from Swedish firm Netmore Group to expand IoT services to water and gas utilities and real estate management firms in the Czech Republic. The platform-as-a-service product from Netmore, which is in the process...
Does AT&T’s decision to ditch NB-IoT in the US, confirmed in RCR Wireless last week, spell the end for this clever and brave little IoT network technology? Just as a technology, the answer is: no, probably not – at least until LTE, whose ‘guardband’...
Netherlands-based smart energy platform provider Netinium has integrated eSIM provisioning software from IoT module maker Telit Cinterion into its multi-vendor head-end system (HES) for smart metering and smart grids. The solution enables subscription management from an HES for the first time, to streamline smart-meter...
UK water utility Yorkshire Water has appointed Netmore Group to swap-out 1.3 million water meters across the Yorkshire region for smart LoRaWAN-connected meters over a five year period. Sweden-based LoRaWAN network operator Netmore Group, with infrastructure operations across Europe and the US, and a...
More Friday market figures for you; these provide a definitive evergreen overview of the smart metering market, arguably, as follows…
The total number of smart meters in the world will double over the next decade, from 1.7 billion at the end of 2023 to 3.4...
Vodafone has said enterprise customers in the UK now have all the necessary cellular-based IoT tools at their disposal, after it switched on LTE-M services in its home market. The operator, which has hitherto steered customers looking to connect battery-powered IoT monitoring applications onto...
Vodafone said that over 805,000 IoT connections had been added in the first half of the year
Vodafone Spain reached over 7.37 million active IoT lines as of June 30, marking a 27.7% year-on-year growth, the telco said in a release.
Vodafone noted that 1.6 million...
Sweden-based IoT network operator Netmore Group, with infrastructure operations in Europe and the US, has signed with Stena Fastigheter to deploy LoRaWAN technology across the Swedish real estate company’s property portfolio. Netmore will supply LoRaWAN connectivity at apartments in the cities of Stockholm, Malmö,...
IoT network operator Sigfox South Africa has been awarded a major government contract to adapt or replace around 15 million water meters in the country with ‘smart’ connected metering devices. The tender, listed as RT29 in the National Treasury archives, closed in November. Sigfox...
France-based low-power IoT specialist Actility, operating and selling LoRaWAN infrastructure, is working with Italian IoT provider Urbana Smart Solutions to “overhaul” and extend Italy’s IoT infrastructure. The deal will see Urbana manage the rollout of LoRaWAN infrastructure “throughout Italy”, and the integration of combined...
Local Sigfox specialists have sold 7,000 smart water meters to the municipality of Parga in the northwest of Greece, and declared they expect to “scale” Sigfox-based IoT solutions for water metering in the region. The contract and the deployment is being managed by local...
Industrial IoT provider Itron, specialising in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions for utilities, is working with Cairns Regional Council in Queensland, Australia, to deploy an NB-IoT system to manage usage, identify leaks, and lower costs in the district water distribution system. Itron is in...
UK broadband and digital services provider Connexin and regional UK broadband and connectivity provider NYnet have signed a network sharing and operations agreement to expand LoRaWAN infrastructure across North Yorkshire. The deal will see Connexin use and expand NYnet’s LoRaWAN network in the region,...
One we missed, from late February: Spanish water company Aqualia has appointed Vodafone on a 10-year deal to automate and manage its advanced meter infrastructure, with a view to supply more than one million NB-IoT smart meters over the first five years of the...
The installed base of smart gas meters in Europe reached 55.9 million in 2023, according to analyst house Berg Insights. This is equivalent to a penetration rate of 45 percent, it said. The number will grow at a compound annual rate (CAGR) of 6.8...
Utility metering specialist Itron has struck a deal with German enterprise software and data orchestration firm Software AG to use its Cumulocity IoT platform for management of low-power IoT devices. The pair will use the open Lightweight M2M (LwM2M) protocol to translate telemetry data...
UK broadband and digital service provider Connexin has won a deal with utility supplier Essex & Suffolk Water to manage the roll-out of smart meters across the Essex and Suffolk supply regions, to the northeast of London. The advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) framework contract...
Heliot Europe, Europe’s biggest Sigfox operator, has partnered with smart meter vendor B4T to offer Sigfox connectivity for the UK-based firm’s upcycled smart water meters. B4T’s Jellyfish range of meter devices track consumption and leaks in the water network; they can be retrofitted to...
In case you missed it, SIM specialist Kigen hosted a webinar earlier this month about smart metering – but more about the impact of embedded SIM (eSIM) technology, actually, for the whole IoT market – which presented a thorough view of the varying rates...
An interesting angle came up last week in a webinar about smart metering, hosted by eSIM specialist Kigen, where Danish meter maker Kamstrup responded to a question about how utility companies go about choosing connectivity technologies and connectivity providers by declaring cellular as the...
Airtel said its smart metering solutions are powered by NB-IoT, 4G and 2G technologies
Airtel Business, which is the enterprise arm of Indian carrier Bharti Airtel, announced that it will power over 20 million smart meters for local utility firm Adani Energy Solutions Limited (AESL).
Under...
Bharti Airtel said its IoT offering includes its proprietary platform dubbed “Airtel IoT Hub”
Indian telecommunications operator Bharti Airtel announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with smart metering and digital solutions provider IntelliSmart with the aim of powering up to 20 million smart...
Note, this article is taken from the upcoming RCR Wireless editorial report on smart meters, and is spliced together from different excerpts from the report. The report – called, Smart Meters: Why Meters Matter, and How Cellular IoT is Driving the Energy Transition –...
