Vodafone rigs-up 1.5 million Wimbledon strawberries with IoT monitoring, tracking
Vodafone is working with Hugh Lowe Farms to use IoT to deliver 1.5 million strawberries to Wimbledon, the UK grand slam tennis championship, which started in London this week. The …
Libelium buys Spanish smart cities firm HOPU, sets sights on future IPO
Spanish IoT provider Libelium has acquired local firm HOP UBIQUITOUS (HOPU), which produces IoT solutions for environmental and meteorological monitoring. The deal follows Libelium’s capital injection from venture capital fund …
Johnson Controls, Accenture to collaborate in the smart buildings space
As part of the smart buildings deal, Accenture will assist Johnson Controls by implementing edge technologies on the OpenBlue platform Smart buildings specialist Johnson Controls and Accenture are collaborating …
Global IoT community set for jamboree LoRaWAN event in Paris (Sponsored)
The LoRa Alliance expects over 2,000 delegates in Paris next week (July 6-7) for the LoRaWAN World Expo, billed as its first global jamboree event for the LoRaWAN community, and …
The juggernaut workload and geopolitical tangles to make 5G work for critical industry
Critical Communications World (CCW) in Vienna this week (June 20-23) told the now-familiar story of how an influential industrial sector, which has existed in a horizontal tech vacuum until now, …
More network, more devices – LoRaWAN is more ‘massive’ on every score, says LoRa Alliance
To get the juices going, on all sides of the IoT divide, ahead of its jamboree LoRaWAN World Expo event in Paris in two weeks, the LoRa Alliance has issued …
Deutsche Telekom and Telia strike back at anti-operator agenda in private 5G market
Right, let’s see how good my notes are two days later; shortly following a shot-across-the-bows from a top analyst at a London private 5G event (Omdia’s Pablo Tomasi at Private …
Integration, simplification, multiplication – three signs private 5G has come of age
This is a rehash (and extension, in the end) of a previous post, to an extent; but it distils the message from before, and says there are sure signs, at …
Edzcom, Signify to build private smart-city network on 5G lightpoles in Finland
Finland-based Edzcom and Netherlands-based Signify have entered a partnership to build a private smart-city 5G and IoT network using street-lighting and other road infrastructure for the city of Tampere, in …
Siemens buys UK industrial IoT firm Senseye for global smart factory push
Siemens has acquired UK-based industrial IoT firm Senseye for an undisclosed fee. Senseye, founded in 2014, provides analytics-based (“AI-powered”) predictive maintenance solutions for industrial machines, offering ways to manage and …
