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  The new IoT offering is part of a joint strategic agreement signed by the two companies last year   Bosch and Mojio have unveiled a jointly developed, internet of things-integrated emergency response solution for vehicles. The new offering adds crash detection and emergency call (eCall) response to...

Las Vegas is working with network operator AT&T and IoT provider Ubicquia to trial a new smart street-lighting solution that makes use of existing lighting infrastructure. In a flurry of announcements from the city, timed for the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the network operator...

Irish IoT antenna firm Taoglas has bought US competitor ThinkWireless for an undisclosed fee. The deal will help the Wexford firm expand sales in the commercial vehicle industry, it said. ThinkWireless, headquartered in Florida, specialises in combination antenna systems incorporating two or more frequency bands,...

Car companies Audi, Ducati, and Ford have joined with California chip maker Qualcomm to prove the “maturity and potential” of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology by showing their vehicles navigating a crossroads by themselves. The showcase at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas...

AT&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 automotive markets appeared in a newly climactic embrace ahead of the 2019 Consumer Electronics...

China 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 chain industry, according to a strategy document published last month by China’s state planning...

  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 reserves and alert park rangers in near real-time so the poachers can be stopped before killing endangered...

French 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 require GPS/ GNSS, or other radios for positioning. It has worked with C-LoC Polte...

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 specialist Sigfox, together with Follower Product (FP) and Philip Morris France, unveiled what it claims is the...

Growth 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 the market to date. Asia Pacific will remain the biggest market for smart meters,...

Chinese 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 of the fund-raising round set a new record in the global IoT start-up sector,...

Siemens 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 improve air quality in its urban centres has seen a push to move industrial stockyards...

American 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 IoT applications. LoRa maker Semtech, whose protocol, technology and gateways is at the heart of...

Over 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 its water-related services in the country. The deal is between Orange’s enterprise arm Orange Business...

  The Canadian firm has already launched connected car offerings with nine carriers globally   Vancouver connected-car startup Mojio announced that it has partnered with T-Mobile Polska to power Smart Car, the European carrier’s new connected car service. As part of the agreement, Mojio will deliver a suite...

Qualcomm has launched its long-awaited 9205 LTE modem for internet-of-things (IoT) applications, combining cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity, and support for IoT developers. Module makers Telit and Quectel were quick to announce products based on the 9205 integrated module. The new Qualcomm solution,...

  The company said the IoT network will cover some 3 million hectares across Australia   Australia’s National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) and Goanna Ag announced the rollout of a publicly available LoRaWAN internet of things network for smart irrigation management solutions to Australian cotton growers. The network...

With brand new silicon, a vibrant support network, and a profile burnished in the early IoT rush, LoRa specialist Semtech is looking to spread its wings and rise above the challenge from cellular IoT carriers. Outside of the IoT space, the US semiconductor outfit has...

Note, this is the third part of a wide-ranging interview with AT&T President of IoT Solutions Chris Penrose; for the first instalment go here. AT&T has used the line before: it is a ‘master systems integrator’, it says. There is a job to create order...

German industrial giant Siemens has been contracted to increase productivity and reduce downtime at a coal mine in China by connecting, analysing and optimising the performance of four mine hoist systems. Siemens has won the deal from the YanZhou Coal Mine Company. It will collect...

Sigfox is looking to add a half a dozen territories to its global footprint by the end of this year, and pass the 70-mark by the end of next. Its top priority in 2019 is to open operations in China, India, and Russia, as...

Note, this is the second part of a wide-ranging interview with AT&T President of IoT Solutions Chris Penrose; for the first instalment go here. In all, AT&T has connected 48 million devices around the world. It counts 2,000 different “types of deployment” down the years....

Orange Business Services, the enterprise division of French carrier Orange, has won a contract to connect cargo ships along the Arctic shipping route, making them “offices at sea” with virtual networks, electronic mapping, and weather and safety updates. The Arctic Shipping Company has selected Orange’s...

The greatest challenge for Chris Penrose, president of IoT solutions at AT&T, is just to order and manage the multiplying opportunities afforded by the advancement of machine connectivity and intelligence. For Penrose, the key is that business is repeatable, and his resources within the business...