Under the terms of the deal, the Indian telco will deploy its proprietary IoT platform 'Airtel IoT Hub'
India’s largest telecom operator, Bharti Airtel, announced that it has won a contract to provide a cellular IoT solution for TP Western Odisha Distribution Limited (TPWODL).
TPWODL is...
Munich Airport is looking to connect, expand, and automate its existing energy monitoring system, currently taking meter readings for water and electricity consumption – across the terminal buildings, baggage areas, and hangars – over local-area wired and wireless networks, to its developing low-power wide-area...
The war in Ukraine is being fought through many unconventional means. One of the most prominent relates to energy supply and dependence. In 2021, about two-fifths of the gas that Europeans burned came from Russia. The war has boosted already high prices of oil...
Telstra has announced a AUS$100 million deal with utility services provider Intellihub to provide up to 4.1 million cellular IoT SIMs for smart energy meters in Australia over the next 10 years. The operator said it was its “largest ever IoT deal”, in terms...
Taiwanese industrial IoT provider Ubiik has released a Release 15 level dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT unit that can operate as a small cell or access point. It is pitching the product to mobile network operators and private LTE network providers, supplying industrial enterprises. The...
We are a little late with this, but it is a sizeable deal, which might also be construed as significant because it is for low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity in Spain, in Sigfox’s (other) backyard, and its comes to us in the days after Sigfox’s...
This article is continued from a previous entry, covering key NB-IoT challenges 1-5 (available here) and key NB-IoT challenges 6-10 (available here). All of these articles are taken from a new report, entitled NB-IoT – what has gone wrong, and when will it go...
This article is continued from a previous entry, covering key NB-IoT deployments 1-5, which is available here. Both are taken from a new report, entitled NB-IoT – what has gone wrong, and when will it go right? The full report is available here. A...
Note, this article has been updated from the 27/10/21 version, which suggested 57% of electric meters in Europe will be connected to NB-IoT and LTE-M. This is wrong, the stated figure of 57% refers to electric meters connected via all wireless technologies.
Wireless technologies of...
Semtech Corporation has teamed with Singapore-based IoT metering company Sindcon to deploy around 1,000 (“plus”) LoRaWAN energy and water metering devices at the Singapore Zoo. Sindcon worked with local utility Electrique Energie & Metering on the project, also. The target is to save 10...
Landis+Gyr has acquired Turkey-based smart meter maker Luna Elektrik Elektronik for a “high double digit million dollar fee”, it said. It is the latest in a string of deals for the Swiss energy management company in 2021, in both the smart metering and electric...
Vodafone has launched a new IoT platform for UK water companies to consolidate data from disparate industrial sensors and systems into a single management plane. The solution, which wraps in design and supply of new IoT gadgetry, allows water companies to prolong the life...
China-based IoT module maker SIMCom is offering its SIM7070 series NB-IoT device with an embedded SIM (eSIM) from German chipmaker Infineon, making the 24 mm x 24 mm SIM7070 the most compact eSIM-enabled module on the market. It is “significantly smaller” than standard eSIM-based...
A hybrid version of the ST8500 system-on-chip (SoC) from Switzerland-headquartered STMicroelectronics has been certified for both power-line and wireless communications. It is the first chipset to receive the new ‘hybrid’ G3-PLC power-line and wireless certificate, published in March, from the G3-PLC Alliance for smart-grid,...
Sigfox operator UnaBiz has opened an office in Tokyo, Japan, to strengthen its position in the Asia region and to “develop IoT solutions for the Japan market and the rest of the world”. The firm has a presence in Singapore, Taiwan, and Japan, as...
China Telecom claimed to be the world's largest carrier for NB-IoT, after the operator announced it has reached the 100 million connections milestone.
"After five years of extensive development, China Telecom has made breakthroughs in network coverage, user scale, platform services, chip modules, and industrial...
Water and sewage service provider SABESP has deployed 100,000 smart water meters on narrowband IoT technology Sigfox in the city of São Paulo in Brazil. The deal was put together by Brazil-based industrial IoT company Laager Tecnologias Sustentáveis and engineering services company Vita Ambiental,...
Industrial IoT provider Itron, specialising in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions for utilities, is working with Microsoft to provide cloud-based meter data management (MDM) services to customers. The pair have completed a round of performance and scalability testing of Itron’s Enterprise Edition Meter Data...
Poland-based industrial IoT provider AIUT has deployed a LoRaWAN network for the local water and sewage company in the city of Piekary Śląskie, in Poland, to connect smart water meters. The initial scope is to connect 6,500 IoT devices to water meters in the...
Austin-based chip-maker Silicon Labs has announced a new range of system-on-chips (SoCs) with support for Wi-SUN, an alternative for low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking like LoRaWAN and Sigfox. It said its new EFR32xG12 platform is suited to new IoT opportunities, and will help to “accelerate”...
US IoT provider Senet has struck a deal with Canada-based Lorax Systems, a safety and environmental solutions company, around utility monitoring against natural gas incidents. The companies have certified Lorax’s meter and service shut-off valves on Senet’s LoRaWAN network.
The integration provides utilities 24/7 monitoring...
US energy company Consolidated Edison (Con Edison) has deployed a total of four million smart gas modules and electricity meters across its service territory in New York as a part of its advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) project with Itron. The duration of the project,...
Electric transmission and distribution utility Versant Power will deploy advanced metering solutions and smart meters in Maine, in the US, with a view to modernize its electricity grid. Versant Power plans to initiate some project activities in 2021 and meter installations are scheduled to...
Verizon Ventures and Qumra Capital have provided funding for Israeli firm Vdoo, which is a specialist in security solutions for connected products.
In a release, Vdoo revealed it had extended its Series B funding to $57M, in an additional round led by Qumra Capital, Verizon...
