
Industrial IoT is the answer to good and green business, says everyone – says ABB
Industrial IoT is the tech answer to the business challenge of environmental sustainability. Everyone says so; everyone knows so. And yet only a third of enterprises are putting their money …

Telstra strikes AUS$100m cellular IoT deal for four million smart meters
Telstra has announced a AUS$100 million deal with utility services provider Intellihub to provide up to 4.1 million cellular IoT SIMs for smart energy meters in Australia over the next …

StarHub supplies University of Singapore with 5G for connectivity and IoT co-creation
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is working with operator StarHub to leverage 5G and IoT as part of a two-year trial to build a ‘smart campus’ infrastructure to bring …

Ubiik intros dual-mode Release-15 LTE-M/NB-IoT small cell for industrial IoT
Taiwanese industrial IoT provider Ubiik has released a Release 15 level dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT unit that can operate as a small cell or access point. It is pitching the …

What is the net environmental impact of dirt-cheap massive-scale IoT?
This discussion is missing something, of course; IoT is not supposed to be written about as an environmental risk. The idea that billions of disposable trackers might litter the planet …

Telefónica strikes deal for up to 650,000 NB-IoT water meters in Spain
We are a little late with this, but it is a sizeable deal, which might also be construed as significant because it is for low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity in Spain, …

Signify completes acquisition of UK smart street-lighting pioneer Telensa
Lighting firm Signify has completed its acquisition of UK-based Telensa, a pioneer in the smart street-lighting market, with a strong customer base among local councils and utility organisations, notably in …

Rogers installs private 5G at Canada gold mine – plus 5G extension for ‘off-grid’ locals
Rogers Business, the enterprise division of Canadian operator Rogers, has installed a private 5G network at Detour Lake, an open pit mine in northern Ontario belonging to gold producer Kirkland …

Disposable dollar-priced IoT – how massive will it really get?
The narrative about the environmental impact of disposable IoT (see here and here; check back for upcoming report on The Green Credentials of 5G and IoT), begs the question, of …

Signify intos new line of LTE and 5G ‘broadband luminaires’ for smart cities
Netherlands-based lighting firm Signify is to integrate LTE and 5G into a new range of ‘broadband luminaires’ for the smart cities market. Signify has signed a deal with smart-city broadband …