Sigfox-parent UnaBiz and LoRaWAN group The Things Industries (TTI) – two companies that appear to be culturally aligned, albeit differently rooted in IoT; which appear to speak the same language, albeit from different sides of the low-power wide-area (LPWA) divide – have struck a...
Ahead of a big week in Barcelona, when the telecoms set hits town for its annual MWC jamboree, and when the only talk of any outward substance will be about edge-based 5G for enterprises, analyst house ABI Research has stuck out a revised forecast...
Game, set, and match at MWC, and the contest hasn’t even started. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has bought Italian private core network specialist Athonet for an undisclosed fee. For our money (old Enterprise IoT Insights money), this is likely to be the biggest news...
IoT chipset hardware firm Sequans has worked with digital security outfit Thales to release a new integrated SIM (iSIM) solution, with support for the latest GSMA SGP.31/.32 eSIM IoT specifications, on Sequans’s dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT Monarch 2 chip. The new version of the...
RAKwireless, making hardware systems for the LoRaWAN-end of the IoT market, notably for the Helium community networks movement, has launched a ‘5G-in-a-box’ hotspot solution, available to system integrators and enterprises to support private 5G setups and experiments. The package features dual 5G and LTE...
Nokia has bolstered its MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) hardware portfolio with a top-end server blade from Dell for hard-working Industry 4.0 installations on its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) private 5G platform. The new Dell server, in the form of the PowerEdge XR11, goes alongside...
The mass adoption of IoT is a no-brainer, right? It’s easy to say, especially for an IoT company. But, actually, enterprises consistently raise a long list of objections when considering IoT as a means to drive digital change. Here are the five most common...
AWS has opened a new shopfront and for operator partners to hawk their private LTE (4G) and 5G solutions to enterprises, to be combined with its own cloud-to-edge compute services and applications, including sundry IoT and AI/ML based solutions. AWS has deals with Deutsche...
Tokyo-based KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom and Singapore-based IoT development house Unabiz have jointly developed and launched a new LTE-M smart ‘button’ for “dozens of unique IoT use cases”. The pair, which have collaborated previously on custom hardware and connectivity projects for specific customers,...
UK telecoms operator BT is offering a “new” national roaming service for IoT SIMs on its EE mobile network, plus on infrastructure managed by UK telco rivals and rented by partner MVNOs “where required”. The service will connect to traditional higher-powered M2M-style cellular 2G,...
How do you judge the best-in-show? By the bright eyes and bushy tails? Probably not if it is a tech fair. So how should one rate the stands at IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona? Is it a size thing? Is it a...
Barcelona-based satellite IoT provider Sateliot, in the process of deploying a low-earth orbit (LEO) constellation of NB-IoT satellites, has struck a partnership with power grid solutions company Sentrisense to launch a satellite-augmented IoT service for electric grid sensors. The Sweden-headquartered firm’s IoT devices attach...
Nokia has expanded its private 4G/5G test lab facility, called ‘Lab-as-a-Service’, to validate third-party industrial equipment and devices connecting on its Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) and Modular Private Wireless (MPW) private LTE (4G) and 5G network solutions. The service, free to customers, supports device...
IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona is not just about cellular, of course. But its proximity in the calendar, as January turns to February, to the city’s big MWC monster-mash at the end of the month – and the closer alignment of their...
Cisco has introduced a number of new cloud services in its IoT operations dashboard to increase industrial asset visibility and manage assets remotely and securely. At its annual Cisco Live event in Amsterdam, the firm said it had focused on ways to bridge the...
The first plenary session at IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona last week saw an address by the European Commission about Industry 5.0. Say what? Industry 5.0? What about Industry 4.0? Are we done with that already? Are we finished with this process...
The German government has passed a bill, to come into force in the next few months, to accelerate smart electricity meter rollout by removing competition restrictions on hardware selection and making grid operators shoulder more of the cost. The Ministry for Economic Affairs and...
US outfit NextWave, engaged historically in various wireless spectrum pursuits, focused lately on municipal private cellular, has said its New York metro-area rollout is gathering pace with 120 eNodeB radio stations from Airspan Networks now operational as part of phase-one of its city-sized infrastructure...
Dubai-based IoT network and solutions provider iWire Global, at one time in the running to buy Sigfox, has signed a regional collaboration and development deal with Singapore-based IoT outfit Unabiz, which eventually won the race to buy Sigfox’s technology assets in France. The partnership...
From AI-capable endpoint devices to autonomous systems, IoT developers are building a diverse ecosystem of products and services, only set to grow. The number of IoT connected devices worldwide is projected to reach over 15 billion in 2023. MicKinsey estimates its market value will...
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It is a pivotal moment for IoT, and we think – the team at Arden Media, publisher of RCR Wireless News and Enterprise IoT Insights thinks – that it will not survive. At least, not as we know it, or...
Canada-based cellular IoT specialist Sierra Wireless, under the stewardship of US LoRaWAN outfit Semtech since last month, has launched a new eSIM / eUICC service offering multi-carrier connectivity in the US, it has said. The new service, called Smart Connectivity Premium, uses the eSIM...
US telecoms software and services outfit Amdocs has claimed to have developed a bunch of new private 5G use cases at its sandbox lab in Dallas, Texas. The new applications, being prepped for show at MWC in a couple of weeks, include 5G-sprung scenarios...
Patient monitoring device maker Telli Health has partnered with US IoT operator and system provider Senet to launch the first remote patient monitoring (RPM) hardware to run on LoRaWAN connectivity, the pair have said. The new RPM device is being offered as a standalone...
