NB-IoT

UK-based cellular IoT MVNO Eseye is working with cellular IoT satellite connectivity provider Sateliot to connect customers where terrestrial cellular IoT networks do not reach. Sateliot, building a low-earth orbit (LEO) NB-IoT satellite constellation based on Release 17 specifications in …

A holy trinity of sorts, at least in the context of this developing iSIM nativity-play in the cellular-end of the IoT market – as 2024 starts to draw to a close, and the industry looks ahead to the new year. …

AT&T has stopped selling NB-IoT data plans and certifying NB-IoT devices, as it starts the process to decommission its NB-IoT network in the US entirely. The decision was taken as part of a strategy for “improving” its IoT services for …

Water leakage is a critical issue affecting residential and commercial properties across the UK, with severe financial, environmental and operational consequences. The rising cost of water bills, paired with the prevalence of insurance claims for water damage, highlights the urgency …

UK-based Vodafone is to supply global IoT connectivity for industry applications running on Oracle’s edge-cloud enterprise platform, called Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP). The US software company said Vodafone’s global SIM will “underpin” its portfolio of industry applications, as offered on …

For never was a story of more woe than this; except it happens too often in the IoT space. Montpellier-based IoTerop, a pioneer of the Lightweight M2M (LwM2M) standard, is seeking a buyer after it was placed into receivership by …

The broad internet-of-things (IoT) market will drive demand for reduced-capability 5G, and even-more reduced-capability 5G (enhanced RedCap; eRedCap) technology to the tune of almost a billion connections by 2030, says analyst house Omdia. The total will surge upwards at a …

Qualcomm Technologies is to integrate its Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/Thread combo system-on-a-chip (SoC), which features on-board compute processing for low-power AI workloads on industrial IoT applications, into STMicroelectronics’ STM32 family of microcontrollers (MCUs). The deal will expand to see other cellular IoT SoCs …

Barcelona-based satellite IoT provider Sateliot has raised €10 million from venture capital group Global Portfolio Investments as part of a continuing €30 million Series-B funding round, as covered here, which has also seen interest from IT and defense firm Indra …

The number of global cellular IoT connections jumped 24 percent in 2023 to finish the year at 3.3 billion; the number will increase by 88 percent (at a compound growth rate of 10 percent per year) to reach 6.2 billion …

Swiss IoT module maker u-blox has launched its first combined terrestrial and non-terrestrial network (NTN; satellite) IoT module, the so-called SARA-S528NM10. It uses the firm’s UBX-S52 dual-mode chipset, offering connectivity via LTE-M and NB-IoT on terrestrial cellular networks and NB-IoT …

Total shipments of reduced-capability (RedCap) 5G IoT modules, offering 5G-based alternatives to mid-range 4G-level LTE Cat-4 and LTE Cat-6 units, will top 80 million over the next five years, in the period to 2029, reckons ABI Research. Further-reduced (‘enhanced’) RedCap …

If only to remind us that, despite all the hullabaloo, non-terrestrial network (NTN; satellite) IoT technology remains a putative proposition, Barcelona-based satellite IoT provider Sateliot has issued a press notice to declare the launch of four new low-Earth orbit (LEO) …

More Friday market figures for you; these provide a definitive evergreen overview of the smart metering market, arguably, as follows…  The total number of smart meters in the world will double over the next decade, from 1.7 billion at the …

Vodafone has said enterprise customers in the UK now have all the necessary cellular-based IoT tools at their disposal, after it switched on LTE-M services in its home market. The operator, which has hitherto steered customers looking to connect battery-powered …

KDDI-owned cellular IoT provider Soracom is offering satellite NB-IoT in a phased and controlled commercial launch to key enterprise customers. The move follows integration with US-based non-terrestrial network (NTN) service operator Skylo Technologies, which lets terrestrial Release 17-level 3GPP-based NB-IoT …

Satellite IoT provider Sateliot is to launch four new NB-IoT satellites into low-Earth orbit (LEO). It is working with German firm Exolaunch, on the launch, scheduled on the Transporter-11 Rideshare mission with SpaceX in “mid-2024”. Exolaunch, which makes satellite separation …

The global cellular IoT market remains impacted by challenges with inventory and demand – except in China and India, where continued growth in sales of cellular meters and trackers, plus other devices, sent the overall IoT module market spiralling upwards …

NB-IoT and LoRa-based IoT connectivity technologies have, and will continue to have, the lion’s share of the low-power wide-area (LPWA) end of the IoT networking market, reckons research house Omdia. The firm said the total number of IoT connections on …

The number of active IoT devices will more than double to 40 billion by the end of 2033, according to IoT analyst house Transforma Insights. Short-range IoT technologies will account for 73 percent of the total by the end of …

Nokia has announced another private-5G go-to-market deal, this time with the UK arm of Canada-based IT consulting giant CGI. It is unconfirmed whether the deal extends beyond than the UK and Ireland. CGI has already deployed Nokia’s private LTE/5G gear …

Cellular MVNO Transatel has struck a deal with satellite IoT operator OQ Technology to be able to offer a converged terrestrial/non-terrestrial cellular NB-IoT network service. OQ Technology has deployed NB-IoT on a constellation of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites. It wants …

Qualcomm has a white paper, actually from last year, about the benefits of LTE Cat 1bis, which makes it hard to see much of a future in NB-IoT and LTE-M for low-powered IoT applications. Indeed, the comparison exercise suggests Qualcomm …

Satellite connectivity startup Skylo, offering Release-17 level NB-IoT on existing geostationary satellites, has certified the Altair ALT1250 chipset from Sony Semiconductor Israel for dual-mode cellular and satellite IoT communications. It is the fifth module to be certified by Skylo, RCR …

Industrial IoT provider Itron, specialising in advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions for utilities, is working with Cairns Regional Council in Queensland, Australia, to deploy an NB-IoT system to manage usage, identify leaks, and lower costs in the district water distribution …