New design approaches to house 5G and IoT at the smart-city edge (Reader Forum)
The constantly increasing demand for reliable, high-throughput digital connectivity is the crucial driver behind the ongoing deployment of 5G cellular systems across North America. In response, telecom providers are investing …
Australian NB-IoT beer-keg tracking goes live for breweries in North America
Australian IoT hardware maker Binary Beer and Canadian IoT software company Kegshoe, specialising in keg trackers and tracking solutions for breweries, respectively, have teamed up to sell their products in …
Updates from LoRa-land – air-quality installs in urban forests, wildfire hotspots, buildings
Various updates from LoRa-land, and beyond… Semtech, the owner of LoRa tech and licensing, said environmental IoT provider ICT International, is using LoRa-based devices on LoRaWAN networks to improve urban …
Sigfox intros prepaid airtime online – for connecting less / more than 10,000 devices
Narrowband IoT company Sigfox has teamed up with Irish-American financial software company Stripe to offer IoT subscriptions for purchase online. Stripe is providing the online payment infrastructure. Customers can choose …
Viasat buys Inmarsat for $7.3bn to forge global satellite broadband and IoT network
US satellite broadband provider Viasat has agreed a deal to acquire UK-based counterpart Inmarsat for $7.3 billion. The combined company will integrate their spectrum, satellite, and terrestrial assets as a …
Cellular IoT to drive growth and gains in electric bikes and scooters, says Ericsson
The micromobility market, covering electric bikes and scooters (e-scooters), will grow at a compound rate (CAGR) of 16 percent per year to 2027, from around $3 billion in 2019 to …
SCF preps blueprints for private 5G – as platform for Industry 4.0, smart cities, C-V2X
​​Small Cell Forum (SCF) is to develop a new set of private 5G ‘blueprints’ for enterprise and industry, to build on parallel work already completed by the likes of the …
Portland upgrades to Dhyan’s streetlight platform, as Echelon fallout continues
The city of Portland in Maine, in the US, has migrated its smart street lights onto a cloud management platform (CMS)Â from California-headquartered Dhyan Networks and Technologies, and away from …
Buy more 5G kit or miss your CO2 targets – says 5G kit vendor, in warning to Europe
Industrial 5G and IoT – or at least, the digital pyrotechnics sprung from 5G and IoT networks – can help the planet reduce carbon emissions, reckons the tech and telecoms …
Scotland starts private 5G rollout in bid to add £17bn GDP and 160,000 jobs
The Scotland 5G Centre, a government-sponsored research centre with the universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, has opened a private 5G network testbed in Dumfries in the south of Scotland, to …
