IoT

Polish IT firm Comarch has said it has secured a spectrum licence from the Office of Electronic Communications (UKE), the national telecoms regulator in Poland, to build a private 5G …

The installed base of IoT devices using embedded SIM (SIM) technology will top 3.6 billion by 2030, up from just over one billion in 2023, reckons analyst house Omdia. Growth, …

US-based Skylo Technologies has raised $37 million for its non-terrestrial cellular 5G network (NTN), including from the investment arms of Intel, BMW, and Samsung, among others. The new investment will …

Intel is pushing the private 5G angle ahead of MWC in Barcelona at the end of the month – plus the AI one, the edge one, the transformation one, and …

Ten new projects have been selected for €50 million of European Union (EU) funding from a second call for proposals under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital) programme. The focus …

US-based network orchestration software company Aarna Networks has combined with radio and core network vendors Airspan Networks and Druid Software to produce a managed private 5G solution for multi-site deployments. …

California-based Industry 4.0 connectivity specialist Ataya has announced a flurry of system integrator and channel reseller deals to launch its Harmony industrial connectivity platform in Europe, Japan, South Korea, and …

Professional services outfit Ernst & Young (EY) is to open an edge technologies lab (EY Edge Technologies Lab) in London with US-based Dell Technologies to demonstrate and develop edge-based “ecosystem …

Swiss IoT module maker u-blox has announced two new LTE-M cellular module series, the SARA-R52 and LEXI-R52, designed for industrial IoT applications. Both are based on its UBX-R5 cellular chip …

The smarter the home, the greater the need for faster, safer, and more direct connections. With the average home now counting more than 20 devices, consumers are looking for ways …

LG Uplus said it added 980,000 5G subscribers during 2023 Korean operator LG Uplus ended the fourth quarter of 2023 with 7.04 million 5G subscribers, up 16.2% year-on-year, according to …

Smart label pioneer Sensos, spun-off from Sony Semiconductor Israel last year, has closed a Series A funding round worth $20 million to further develop and commercialise its disposable and degradable …

US-based IoT connectivity provider OptConnect has acquired Chilean firm M2M DataGlobal for an undisclosed fee. The deal means OptConnect will manage cellular IoT across North and South America. The M2M …

Netmore Group has acquired US LoRaWAN operator Senet for an undisclosed fee. The deal means the Swedish firm expands its public LoRaWAN footprint outside of Europe, where it has assembled …

The big announcement last week from IBM and the GSMA about teaching telcos in the ways of the force – as in generative artificial intelligence (AI) – is not just …

France-based IoT security startup ProvenRun has done a deal with Renault Group to protect onboard comms on software-defined vehicle (SDV) platforms for Ampere, the car company’s electric vehicle (EV) software …

Nokia has released the compact version of its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private LTE/5G product in Europe, pitching to small- and medium-sized industrial enterprises (SMEs) and the logistics industry, specifically. …

RAI Amsterdam, the conference and exhibition centre in the Dutch capital, has a new private 5G network, courtesy of NTT and Cisco. The setup has been signed off in time …

Siemens is to bundle generative AI with its machine learning software for predictive maintenance cases, which draws on data from IoT sensors and other operational metrics in production machines and …

Proximus NXT, the system integrator division of Belgian operator Proximus, is to deploy a private 5G network, in pilot form, at the AZ Groeninge hospital in Kortrijk, West Flanders, in …

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 …

Sigfox-parent Unabiz is working with Holtek Semiconductor to integrate Sigfox (“0G technology”) into the Taiwan-based design firm’s “ultra-cheap” BC68F2150 chipset. Unabiz said the initiative will bring “more energy-efficient and cost-effective” …

STMicroelectronics (ST Micro) has gained level-three (Level 3) certification from both SESIP and PSA Certified for its STM32 system-on-chip security solution, which allows IoT developers to write and deploy code …

Chip design company NXP Semiconductors has released two new lines of low-cost and low-power microcontroller units (MCUs) to support intelligent edge applications in industrial and industrial IoT gadgetry, plus in …

It is always good to talk to Celona. The California scale-up has taken a position as an agitator in the excitable private networks market, positioning itself as an enterprise-friendly alternative …