IoT

Operators in China deployed nearly 600,000 5G base stations in the April-June period alone Chinese operators have outperformed the country’s own construction target for 5G base stations, deploying almost 3 …

MachineQ has launched a number of new active RFID asset tracking tags for indoor positioning, along with a new IoT occupancy monitoring solution. They are an extension of its hybrid …

A panel discussion with Microsoft and Intel at Private Networks Forum in May yielded some helpful insights about the push-and-pull for enterprises to deploy private 5G networks. The conversation, under …

KDDI-owned global virtual IoT network operator (MVNO) Soracom has announced a partnership with US-based cellular-IoT satellite operator Skylo Technologies. The deal sees Soracom further integrate non-terrestrial network (NTN) connectivity as …

As a sign of where industrial-grade 5G is really up to, the announcement from German firm Siemens that it has opened a mainly-5G test lab at its main research campus …

A panel session at Private Networks Forum in May discussed what 5G delivers for enterprises now and what it promises to deliver in the future, with a keen eye on …

Let’s talk about Voice over New Radio (VoNR) and begin with an analogy. I like analogies because they can bring dry technical topics to life. Many cars today feature a …

Patrick Griffin, Chief Product Officer, Heliot Europe, the largest Sigfox network operator in the European Union; here, he expands on the importance of the new unlicensed LPWAN working group proposing …

New FCC effort seeks alignment with NIST principles on cybersecurity The Biden administration and the Federal Communications Commission are working on a product labeling effort focused on standards for cybersecurity …

Quectel, Telit Cinterion, and Fibocom captured more than half of the total cellular IoT module shipments in the first quarter of 2023, according to market analysis from Counterpoint Research. Quectel …

An IoT MVNO killer? It sure sounds like it, almost – if the whole rest of the global operator market could just pick it up. But no, says the global …

Sigfox has officially joined the LoRa Alliance – as a contributing member, no less. The French-born ultra-narrowband IoT network tech – once (long ago) the darling of the European IoT …

Bit late, but important to report: US-headquartered IoT module maker Telit Cinterion announced at the start of the month (July 3) that it has agreed to sell its cellular IoT …

Note, this is an excerpt from a new editorial report, called Private 5G for IoT – plotting timelines, defining applications and making bets. The full report is available to download …

US IoT developer Blues (Blues Wireless) has signed with Germany-based virtual IoT operator (MVNO) 1NCE to more than double its roaming access to national mobile networks around the world. The …

Vodafone appears to be putting renewed effort into its commercial smart-label product, developed originally by Sony Semiconductor, in combination with SIM specialist Kigen and module maker Murata, and supplied initially …

Development of the 5G standard is ongoing, and much of its most enterprise-relevant functionality will be made available in forthcoming releases. This paper considers what private 5G offers to enterprises …

Due to the distributed nature of IoT, connectivity/networking is perhaps the most critical element of the full IoT stack. It is also the area that requires the greatest consideration of …

Seven IoT service providers in Europe have signed multi-year deals to develop and sell IoT solutions using EchoStar Mobile’s satellite LoRa network. The customers are API-K, Cyric IoT, DalesLandNet, Dryad …

Sooner or later, it all comes down to money – and there just aren’t that many clear-cut use cases to bankroll a private 5G deployment. That is the consensus. Yes, …

France and Dutch LoRaWAN groups Kerlink and The Things Industries have announced a partnership to align their hardware and software, respectively, to offer customers zero-touch provisioning for IoT network deployments. …

Bosch has announced a deal to acquire Vancouver-headquartered systems integrator Paladin Technologies to expand its building services business in North America, and specifically to enter the Canadian market. Paladin Technologies, …

UnaBiz has signed with KDDI-owned Soracom, an investor in and collaborator with the Singapore-based Sigfox-owner already, to resell its global cellular IoT airtime as part of its burgeoning ‘universal LPWAN’ …

A new report from analyst group SNS Telecom & IT, based out of Dubai, says global spending on private LTE and 5G network infrastructure for vertical industries will grow at …

IT infrastructure and services company NTT is to create a digital twin of the Tour de France bike race, which starts next month (July 1), with a bunch of IoT …