IoT

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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” …

  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 …

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 …

Satellite connectivity, spurred by new projects from the likes of Amazon and SpaceX, will support 24 million IoT connections by 2024, bringing new competition to established IoT technologies like LoRa, Sigfox and NB-IoT. While the burgeoning IoT market scratches it …

Swedish vendor Ericsson and Nordic-based service provider Telia have brought automated guided vehicles, augmented reality (AR), and a huge number of sensors to life at Ericsson’s manufacturing facility in Tallinn, Estonia, via a dedicated cellular network. The Tallinn supply site …

Hitachi sees traditional supply chain management as a road block to disruption The broad Industry 4.0 conversation focuses on how the internet of things and data analytics can add value to foundational sectors like manufacturing, transportation and retail. But linking …

Connected device manufacturer D-Link has agreed to boost the security of its routers and IP-connected video cameras as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC sued Taiwan-based D-Link and its U.S. subsidiary in 2017, accusing the …

Chinese mobile operators are leading the way in terms of IoT deployments as they have already connected nearly 960 million devices, according to a recent study by GSMA Intelligence. According to the report, announced last week during Mobile World Congress …

Smart meters have provided a read-out on energy consumption and a window on energy usage. They have brought insight and control to the field of energy management, both sides of the meter. They are, in a sense, the gateway devices …

The European Commission is offering manufacturing companies funding of €60,000 each to run collaborative smart manufacturing experiments at neutral hub sites, with a total funding pot stretching to almost €1 million. The Commission has invited small and medium sized enterprises …

U.S. tech firm Itron has signed a contract with Liberty Utilities Company, a subsidiary of Algonquin Power and Utilities, which operates nearly 40 utilities in 13 U.S. states. Under the agreement, Liberty Utilities will deploy Itron’s OpenWay Riva, an internet …

Wireless/wireline network design and build specialist creates new Technology Division Increasingly complex and converged wireless and wireline networks are a key to operator’s ongoing investments in LTE and 5G. Deep fiber, small cell densification, the internet of things and macro-level …

Our world is becoming more connected every single day. We’re experiencing the advent of autonomous vehicles, smart cities and 5G. New technologies like robotics, quantum computing and virtual reality are entering our personal and professional lives each and every day. …

Senet has announced a deal to integrate LoRaWAN connectivity with LoRa-based sensors from US equipment vendor Radio Bridge and smart cities solutions from Spanish IoT firm Wellness Telecom. Radio Bridge has said it will offer customers the option to purchase …