An adjunct to our run-of-the-mill cellular reporting; a new report from Verizon Connect, the US carrier’s fleet tracking business, says there has been a five-percent increase in usage of GPS in automotive fleet tracking in Europe in 2024, compared with last year. More than...
Sigfox-parent Unabiz reckons it can now deliver a 90 percent “success rate” with Wi-Fi positioning on Sigfox trackers thanks to the addition of some AI/ML trickery to its Wi-Fi scanning software. Sigfox operator KYOCERA Communication Systems (KCCS) has claimed a jump from 62 percent...
Note, in the week following publication of this article, Sigfox filed for bankruptcy. Coverage of receivership procedings against Sigfox can be found here; read on to hear about the kind of big ideas that, perhaps, undermined Sigfox in the end – but which also...
China-based IoT manufacturer Queclink is adding Sigfox-based IoT connectivity in its stolen vehicle trackers. The two companies have struck a deal to “uncover hidden potential of IoT”, they said, by launching more products with different form factors and applications.
Queclink has launched a new...
Irish postal company and fleet operator An Post Mails & Parcels (An Post) has contracted Irish Sigfox operator VT Networks to equip and monitor “several thousand” roll cages and containers for parcel processing and distribution.
The state-owned logistics firm said the move, to embrace connected...
US LoRaWAN provider Senet and French LoRaWAN provider Objenious have both certified battery-operated tracking devices and telematics software from Australian IoT maker Digital Matter. The certification means ready integration and faster deployment of Digital Matter devices on LoRaWAN infrastructure from Senet and Objenious.
Senet has...
IoT network provider Sigfox will enable private ultra-narrowband networks from early 2020, starting in France, it has announced.
The company said it is on track to pass 15 million connected devices and 1,500 customers by the end of the year. It also announced a...
