IoT

  Finnish vendor Nokia announced, in partnership with China Mobile/CMCC Guangxi, that it is delivering a landslide monitoring and early warning system for highways operations management company BGIGC Group. Deployed on the G75 Lanzhou–Haikou Expressway, one of the main highways …

Smart lighting as a platform. Lighting is everywhere humans are, and already connected to power, making it the perfect apparatus for future wireless technologies and sensors. This report considers how smart lighting platforms are developing in the buildings / commercial …

The number of connected devices in the medical is growing fast, and while these IoT devices will bring a greater efficiency and innovation to the medical field, allowing patients to receive better and fast care, there remains a serious problem …

  Nokia has announced that it is adding 5G and edge capabilities to its Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING) managed service. In a release, the Finnish vendor said that this upgrade enables operators to offer 5G IoT services without having …

LoRaWAN enhances security and long-range tracking Pallet Alliance has added the LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN connectivity protocol to its Internet-of-Things-enabled IntelliPallet platform, the company said in a release. The new capability is the result of Pallet Alliance’s collaboration with …

LTE just became the dominant mobile network technology last year, but the industry is already looking ahead Mobile network operators are projected to invest more than $1.1 trillion in their networks over the next five years, and about 80% of …

  Spanish telecom giant Telefónica and Idrica, which specializes in technologies for water management, have signed a global partnership agreement to provide services to companies in the water sector, Telefonica said in a release. Telefonica said that this new agreement …

The vertical farming industry in its infancy, with most practitioners stuck in hobbyist production. But the fragile case for growing food in warehouses – automated and dynamic local production, using less water, less fertiliser, less energy – is alive and …

Around 40 per cent of organizations are deploying IoT solutions already and a further 22 per cent planning to deploy in the next two years. But the rate of adoption is slower than expected, according to open-source IoT group the …

  Canada-based firm Siyata Mobile announced the commercial launch of the company’s flagship Push-to Talk LTE Uniden UV350 in-vehicle cellular IoT device in partnership with Verizon. The UV350 provides its enterprise customers with a dedicated in-vehicle Push-to-Talk (PTT) cellular solution built for the specific …

Editor’s note: Keysight Technologies offered up these predictions for 2020, from CTO Jay Alexander and Jeff Harris, who leads the company’s global marketing.  New realms of measurement will grow in importance in 2020: Measurement based tools of many kinds are key enablers …

An IoT sensor platform has helped a team of geologists from York University in Canada and the University of Zurich in Switzerland to monitor the stability of the terrain over the tomb of the 18th dynasty of pharaohs in the …

  IoT connections will reach almost 25 billion globally by 2025, up from 12 billion in 2019, according to a new report by the GSMA. “The business case for IoT is shifting from just connecting devices to addressing specific problems …

The US arm of T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom’s digital services division, is bundling LoRaWAN connectivity plans and hardware offers from US-based Senet with its own IoT platform. Senet said it had struck a deal for T-Systems to resell its network connectivity …

  Sprint announced collaborations with Swiss operator Swisscom and Nordic carrier Telia to extend the Sprint Curiosity Internet of Things (IoT) platform to Europe. Sprint said that thanks to this new deal, Swisscom and Telia Company customers will now be …

  Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), announced that its ME910G1-W1 module has been certified for use on AT&T’s LTE-M and narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) networks. Based on the Qualcomm® 9205 LTE Modem from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., …

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 …

IoT infrastructure provider LORIOT has partnered with local networking and security system integrator Layer3 to deploy LoRaWAN in Nigeria for smart city and smart building solutions. Layer3’s cloud infrastructure will allow private and public sector organizations to access and maintain …

  French IoT specialist Sigfox has officially launched its IoT network in Indonesia, the company said in a release. In the first stage, Sigfox’s network is available in greater Jakarta area and Bandung. Sigfox said that the launch of Sigfox …

  German company Bosch has consolidated its activities centered on the Internet of Things (IoT) into a new subsidiary. With some 900 associates, Bosch.IO covers a wide range of IoT services including consulting, implementation and operation. “With Bosch.IO, we are …

  Cisco has announced advancements to its IoT portfolio that enable service provider partners to offer optimized management of cellular IoT environments and new 5G use-cases, the company said in a release. Cisco highlighted that new wireless technologies – such …

An intro-video plays as the founders of The Things Network (TTN), take to the stage at their annual LoRaWAN bash in Amsterdam. A Hollywood-style voiceover crows about big-sounding tech – something about 5G and 0G, and all the other Gs …

Smart IoT devices and sensors utilize a wide range of wireless protocols such as Wi-Fi, ZigBee, Z-Wave, LoRa, and BLE. The deployment of smart IoT devices and sensors – each with its own set of requirements – inevitably creates multiple …

Mobile network operators will have earned $8 billion, and counting, in brand new sales revenue from 5G-based IoT connections by 2025, according to new forecasts from Juniper Research. The firm reckons global operators will, collectively, add $8 billion from new …