Sprint’s Curiosity IoT is enabling connectivity, over-the-air device management and intelligent data capabilities for Dynamics' Wallet Card, which claims to be the world's first connected payment card.
Already adopted
by major global financial institutions, the Wallet Card will operate with
seamless connectivity through Curiosity IoT, remote device management...
LoRaWAN supports a broad set of IoT applications, applicable to a wide variety of vertical markets. Below is a comprehensive list of 19 use cases, as provided by LoRaWAN provider Senet, which offers LoRaWAN infrastructure in 80 countries.
Check out the new report on...
Cities must use all new mobility options, starting with shared and electric vehicles, if they are to decrease vehicle emissions by as much as 95 per cent by 2050. Focus on autonomous vehicles should come after immediate groundwork has been laid with shared high...
U.S. utility Colorado Springs Utilities has selected Swiss company Landis+Gyr to replace the utility's metering system with an advanced IoT network technology, capable of supporting the next generation of energy management applications, the former said in a statement.
Under the terms of the agreement, the...
Restaurant chains Shake Shack, Five Guys and Hard Rock Café have deployed LoRa-based temperature monitoring systems in their commercial kitchens.
UK firm CM Systems, a specialist in monitoring systems for food safety compliance, has transferred these chains, alongside regional brands like City Barbeque and...
The Asia/Pacific (APAC) region will lead the internet of things market in terms of spending this year, with around 35.7% of the global spend, followed by the U.S. and Western Europe with 27.3% and 21.2% of the total IoT spend in 2019 respectively, according...
Sigfox has said it will boost its so-called 0G network infrastructure six-fold in terms of capacity and features to serve as a cellular back-up network for an expanding customer base. It has also extended a key deal with Securitas Direct into Portugal.
Sigfox said...
For all the experience of LTE and excitement of 5G, the IoT market has been propped by low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies. The concept of smart-anything as the prerequisite for industrial change – in buildings, cities, manufacturing, logistics, agriculture – has gained credence, in large...
French IoT firm Traxens has followed up news of pending investment from shipping giant Maersk with the closing of a €20 million Series C round of investment funding.
Traxens said the injection will go to scale-up of its smart containers and rail freight businesses,...
Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) is a cellular-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology. Specified in Release 13 of the 3GPP in June 2016, it coexists with GSM and LTE in licensed frequency bands.
NB-IoT is associated with simple sensor applications, which make up most of the burgeoning...
A new blueprint for internet of things adoption by municipalities offers up three models for the ownership and operation of IoT networks for smart cities.
The Municipal IoT Blueprint report comes via the Wireless SuperCluster of the Global City Teams Challenge, operating under the auspices of...
Portland General Electric Company is launching its Smart Grid test bed in Oregon, the company said in a release.
"We're using our Smart Grid Test Bed to
deliver simple, seamless solutions and working with customers to drive carbon
out of our system," said Maria Pope, president and CEO...
A new blueprint for internet of things adoption by municipalities lays out half a dozen areas where IoT can offer benefits to cities.
The Municipal IoT Blueprint report comes via the Wireless SuperCluster of the Global City Teams Challenge, operating under the auspices of the...
T-Mobile US announced it will start selling what it claims to be the first asset tracking solution in the United States, the telco said in a release.
T-Mobile US partnered with Roambee for its BeeAware asset tracking IoT offering. The solution will be offered via...
Nowadays, security and privacy are on everybody’s mind. Hardly a day goes by without the news of security breaches at major institutions. Most of the time, the reporting is focused on the cloud or network infrastructure, hardly ever on devices. However, when it comes...
French IoT firm Traxens is poised to receive major investment from shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, alongside a big order for cellular cargo trackers. It has also been drafted into the new French Smart Port in Med initiative in Marseille as an associate partner.
Traxens...
Australian internet-of-things (IoT) operator National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) has signed a strategic investment agreement with global energy and environment company Enzen Group. The $8 million deal is geared towards driving LoRaWAN adoption in Australia “at scale”.
The pair said they are in position to...
UK firm Telensa has struck a deal to provide smart controls to 15,000 LED street lights in the City of Dunedin in New Zealand.
The arrangement is part of a deal by Spanish-owned, Australia-based infrastructure management company Broadspectrum to upgrade the city’s streetlighting network. Broadspectrum...
French IoT company Sigfox claims 6.7 million active devices in the field (“not counting proofs of concept, just commercial rollouts in diverse industries”), in 63 countries on five continents. It has set an ambitious (bonkers, surely?) target of one billion connections by 2023, under...
German telco Deutsche Telekom and Software AG have announced a strategic partnership to deliver IoT services on a global scale.
Under the terms of the deal, Deutsche Telekom and its enterprise customer unit T-Systems will expand their "Cloud of Things" offering, using Software AG’s...
Cradlepoint highlights enterprise private network use cases
The notion of an enterprise private network, whether it’s LTE or 5G deployed in unlicensed, licensed or shared spectrum, is a hot topic at the moment. Carriers and vendors see a major opportunity to work with enterprise stakeholders...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is generating a great deal of excitement across all verticals, especially as operators ramp up plans for 5G networks. IoT increasingly is being used across a broad spectrum of industries, as well as in the consumer segment. Globally, IoT...
The U.S. Transportation Research Centre (TRC) has inaugurated its new SmartCentre for testing automated and connected vehicles in Logan County, Ohio.
The SMARTCenter is designed to test advanced automotive and mobility technologies in a safe, secure, and repeatable real-world environment before the vehicles are deployed...
Sea ports have become a primary focus for the telecoms sector as it maps out potential customers for private communications networks, particularly as the industrial space at large hits upon the opportunity for new LTE and 5G networks to bring digital advancement.
But networking...
