AT&T strikes deal with Toyota, walks the line on crunch C-V2X / DSRC debate
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAT&T has slipped out a minor announcement about LTE connectivity on latest-model Toyota and Lexus cars and trucks in the US, starting from the fall, just as the technology and …
China to build 150 automated and intelligent smart logistics hubs by 2025
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailChina is to build 30 logistics hubs during the next 12 months and 150 in the following five years as part of a major expansion and transformation of its supply …
Intel’s AI technology helps protect endangered animals in African reserves
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail TrailGuard AI cameras use Intel’s technology to protect wild animals from poachers Intel’s technology is powering non-profit Resolve’s new TrailGuard AI camera to detect poachers entering Africa’s wildlife …
Sequans adds cloud positioning to Monarch chip, intros Verizon-approved IoT tracker
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFrench IoT chipmaker Sequans has announced it will embed ‘cloud location over cellular’ (C-LoC) software to its LTE-M and NB-IoT Monarch platform, creating a IoT location solution that does not …
Sigfox, FP, Philip Morris develop smart tag to fight cigarette theft
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Sigfox said that the smart tag is now being deployed to 600 tobacco retailers in the Bouches-du-Rhône area with a national rollout planned at a later stage French IoT …
Water utilities and LPWA networks to bring new growth in smart meter market
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailGrowth in smart meter shipments by water utilities during the next decade, alongside higher sales of smart gas meters, will offset a decline in smart electricity meters, which have underpinned …
Logistics firm G7 claims record $320m IoT funding round, headed by TEV, Tencent
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailChinese internet of things (IoT) company G7 Networks has completed a $320 million funding round, with investments from Total Energy Ventures (TEV) International, Tencent, and GLP, among others. The value …
Chinese steel firm re-boots indoor stockyard with Siemens automation, analytics tools
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSiemens has been engaged to digitise and automate the new indoor stockyard for the Jiangsu Binxin Special Steel Material Company (Binxin Steel) in China. China’s moves in recent years to …
American Tower targets two million Brazilian LoRaWAN connections in 2019
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAmerican Tower’s LoRaWAN network in Brazil has passed 400,000 connected devices. The company has set target two million or more by the end of 2019, deployed for a range of …
Veolia to connect three million water meters over Orange’s LoRa network in France
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailOver three million water meters will be connected to Orange’s LoRa network in France, after a subsidiary division of French water company Veolia appointed the telecoms provider to help digitise …
