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Sigfox partners with WND to deploy nationwide IoT network in the U.K.
The IoT network is expected to cover 94% of the U.K. population by end-2018
French IoT specialists Sigfox has signed an agreement with U.K. operator WND to deploy a nationwide IoT network in the U.K. before the end of 2018.
The LPWA network is expected to...
Sweden working on nationwide LPWAN for IoT
French IoT firm Actility will carry out the deployment in partnership with local company Blink Services
French company Actility, which specializes in Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) and Blink Services, a Swedish company offering connectivity through open networks, LoRaWAN and smart city solutions, confirmed...
Sigfox partners with Alizent to offer industrial IoT solutions
The two firms are already looking for industrial IoT opportunities in the U.S. and Europe
French IoT connectivity provider Sigfox has signed a global partnership with Alizent to offer industrial IoT solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, the two partners will combine their respective technologies...
eGate relies on Vodafone’s IoT connectivity platform to improve airlines’ service
eGate Solutions, a provider of technology and software solutions for the airline and railway industries is using Vodafone’s IoT platform in order to improve the passenger experience through the delivery of fast and accurate on-board data to suppliers.
The firm’s solutions help airlines get the...
Simplifying and automating small cells creates scalable process
Learn how Parallel Wireless is using its unique solution to bring coverage to rural, urban and enterprise environments
Rajesh Mishra, president, founder and CTO of Parallel Wireless, shared an experience during Mobile World Congress 2017 that speaks to a much larger trend of digital divisions....
Enterprise IoT Summit: Connectivity for the Industrial Internet of Things
Connectivity for the Industrial Internet of Things
Stan Schneider, CEO,  Real-Time Innovations, RTI provides insight on connectivity for the Industrial Internet of Things as part of the Vertical Market IoT: Agriculture, Oil & Gas, Healthcare, Manufacturing track at the Enterprise IoT Summit in Austin, Texas.
https://youtu.be/DXK-nUZLxsg
Stan Schneider is...
Nik Kitson explains the challenges of deploying IoT solutions at scale
Spotlight presentations: Challenges of Deploying IoT Solutions at Scale
Nik Kitson, HaxIoT
https://youtu.be/MbYqfd4FkdA
Bringing over 18 years experience from the Service Provider and Internet of Things field, Nik Kitson previously worked with Vodafone, Juniper Networks and Cisco. In these organizations, he was responsible for rolling out as...
IoT Vertical Markets: Connected Vessels
Globecomm & The Maritime Industry; Connected Vessels
Paul Scardino, SVP, Globecomm
https://youtu.be/R8BlFyJaRLs
The Internet of Things may be newer-used terminology but it is truly an evolution of a term that was coined in the 1970s, SCADA (Supervisory control and data acquisition) systems. These are systems that provide...
Empowering Mobility One Customer at a Time
From opening an app to closing a deal, almost everything we do during a day is made simpler by reliable wireless service. What isn’t simple is deciding how to deliver reliable service to employees or customers, day in and day out.
Many enterprises and venues...
Orange wins three-year IoT contract with Hertz
The French telecom operator is set to provide IoT connectivity for the car rental company’s hourly vehicle service.
Orange Business Services won a three-year contract with Hertz to support "internet of things" connectivity services for its hourly vehicle rental service. Under terms of the agreement,...
3GPP tech to account for 35% of LPWA networks according to report
There are a number of unlicensed low-power wide-area network startups going toe-to-toe to be one to connect the biggest chunk of the massive and growing "internet of things" market. Players like Sigfox, Ingenu and Senet have been competing with each other over the past...
Altair chipset passes interoperability tests with Lightweight M2M protocol
Altair Semiconductor, a provider of LTE chipsets, announced earlier this month that its ALT1160 LTE Cat-1 chipset successfully completed interoperability testing with the Open Mobile Alliance's Lightweight machine-to-machine protocol. The test took place at the recent OMA TestFest, where vendors had the opportunity to test the stability...
Vodafone provides connectivity for medical asset tracking
As much as one-third of medication is unusable by the time it is supposed to be taken as a result of poor storage of temperature-sensitive medicines due to insufficient supply chain management and failure of patients to correctly store prescriptions, according to a case...
Understanding Lightweight M2M protocol and its benefits
The millions of connected devices that make up machine-to-machine systems and are part of the "internet of things" need to be switched on, configured, provisioned for services, maintained, updated with software, recovered from error conditions, monitored, queried for data, repaired and taken off their...
Understanding Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) protocol and its benefits
The millions of connected devices that make up machine-to-machine systems and are part of the "internet of things" need to be switched on, configured, provisioned for services, maintained, updated with software, recovered from error conditions, monitored, queried for data, repaired and taken off their...
Vodafone provides connectivity for medical asset tracking
As much as one-third of medication is unusable by the time it is supposed to be taken as a result of poor storage of temperature-sensitive medicines due to insufficient supply chain management and failure of patients to correctly store prescriptions, according to a case...
Audi vehicle-to-infrastructure technology tells drivers when lights turn green
Audi's Traffic Light Information technology enables a car to communicate with traffic light infrastructure in select cities across the United States. The car receives real-time signal information from advanced traffic management systems that monitor traffic lights via an onboard LTE data connection. When approaching a connected traffic...
Audi vehicle-to-infrastructure technology talks to traffic lights
Audi's Traffic Light Information technology enables a car to communicate with traffic light infrastructure in select cities across the United States. The car receives real-time signal information from advanced traffic management systems that monitor traffic lights via an onboard LTE data connection. When approaching a connected traffic...
Bluetooth 5 is here, and built for the internet of things
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is going directly after the "internet of things" market with this week’s release of Bluetooth 5, the newest version of the now ubiquitous wireless technology said to offer significant range, speed and broadcast message capacity upgrades.
According to the release,...
Cisco brings internet of everything to growing Canadian smart city
Creating a connected city.
Mississauga, Ontario, looked to Cisco Systems to help leverage the "internet of things" to improve services, reduce costs and drive efficiency with real-time data in the Canadian city.
Mississauga’s population has grown to nearly 800,000 residents in recent years thanks...
Bluetooth 5 is here, and built for the internet of things
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is going directly after the "internet of things" market with this week’s release of Bluetooth 5, the newest version of the now ubiquitous wireless technology said to offer significant range, speed and broadcast message capacity upgrades.
According to the release,...
Cisco brings internet of everything to growing Canadian smart city
Creating a connected city.
Mississauga, Ontario, looked to Cisco Systems to help leverage the "internet of things" to improve services, reduce costs and drive efficiency with real-time data in the Canadian city.
Mississauga’s population has grown to nearly 800,000 residents in recent years thanks...
Sigfox secures new funding, eyes rapid network expansion
Sigfox announced earlier this month it is closing a $160 million (150 million euros) funding round it intends to use on expansion of its low power wide area network. Companies including Salesforce, Total, Henri Seydoux, Alto Invest, Swen CP and Tamer Group joined existing shareholders...
Sigfox secures new funding, eyes rapid network expansion
Sigfox announced earlier this month it is closing a $160 million (150 million euros) funding round it intends to use on expansion of its low power wide area network. Companies including Salesforce, Total, Henri Seydoux, Alto Invest, Swen CP and Tamer Group joined existing shareholders...