BROWSING: NB-IoT

Vodafone implements NB-IoT to develop smart vineyards in Spain

  Vodafone will use its new "Sensing4Farming" platform for the NB-IoT project with Bodegas Emilio Toro   Vodafone has signed an agreement with Spanish wine producer Bodegas Emilio Moro to develop what it describes as the "winery of the future", using narrowband Internet of Things technology, Spanish...

Vodafone to double the size of its European NB-IoT network

  Vodafone announced plans to deploy new infrastructure in the U.K., Romania and Hungary   Vodafone has confirmed plans to double the number of European sites in its narrowband Internet of Things network footprint by the end of 2019. The U.K.-based telecom group said it has seen a...

New LPWA antennas and booster tech promise smaller IoT devices

A trio of diminutive multi-band low-power wide-area (LPWA) antennas has been announced at MWC Americas, promising further miniaturisation of IoT devices, alongside international roaming for applications like asset tracking. A new range of antennas from Irish antenna company Taoglas, suitable for NB-IoT networks, as well...

AT&T to intro embedded IoT SIMs in LTE-M modules in first half of 2019

AT&T will make IoT modules with integrated SIMs available on its LTE-M network in the first half of 2019. The carrier is working with German internet-of-things (IoT) module manufacturer Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) to integrate a next-generation SIM into a chipset by Israeli firm Altair Semiconductor for...

AT&T to mix 5G with IoT to make LA “one of the smartest” cities in the US

US carrier AT&T is in talks with the city of Los Angeles about a public-private partnership to deploy small cells, 5G connectivity, and internet-of-things technologies in order to enhance civic operations. AT&T said the deal will make the city “one of the smartest” in America. Traffic...

Western IoT brands lose 15% share in 12 months as China ramps up NB-IoT focus

Well established North American and European manufacturers of M2M and IoT devices have seen their share of global shipments slip by 15 per cent in the last 12 months as Chinese vendors have flooded the market with low-value 2G kit, and ramped up their...

AT&T debuts asset tracking and monitoring solution on its LTE-M network

AT&T has launched its first GPS asset tracker on its LTE-M network. Besides location tracking, it also packs in sensors for measuring humidity, temperature, light exposure, and impacts and breakages. The Asset Tracker One (AT1), which works with AT&T’s Fleet Complete mobile app, is suitable...

How AT&T is using drones, sensors, AI and LPWAN in hurricane season

As the summer ends, the weather worsens. For some, the changing seasons bring devastating storms. Their shadows grow ever-longer, and the risk to life grows ever-higher. Last year (2017) saw some of the worst natural disasters on record, with earthquakes, fires, flooding and landslides. By...

Deutsche Telekom installs digital monitoring system at Düsseldorf Airport

Deutsche Telekom said the system will be linked to the IoT for bridges, tunnels, building and other concrete infrastructure at the airport   Düsseldorf Airport, one of the most important German hubs in international air traffic, has teamed with Deutsche Telekom and its partner BS2 Sicherheitssysteme...

Sensoneo says its smart waste sensors are ready for T-Mo’s NB-IoT network

  The Slovakian firm said the sensors are ready for the NB-IoT network recently launched by T-Mobile US   Sensoneo, a Slovakian provider of smart waste management solutions, has been testing its waste fill-level sensors in several locations across the U.S. for the past few weeks to...

The four principle LPWA connectivity techologies for IoT deployments

The internet of things (IoT) is gathering momentum in the enterprise space. Analyst firm Machina Research anticipates there will be three billion low-power wide-area (LPWA) connections by 2025, and Analysys Mason forecasts LPWA technologies will generate $5 billion globally in connectivity revenue by 2025....

New business cases, technologies driving NB-IoT toward market acceptance (Reality Check)

With the announcements by three major U.S. telecom carriers this year, and significant activity taking place in China, narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) has come out of the shadows in a big way. The announcements by AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile that they would be stepping up...

Finnish operator Elisa looks for rise from industrial AI, IoT and 5G

Finnish network operator Elisa is combining its efforts in artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT) and 5G technologies to stimulate operational excellence in the enterprise market, and drive forward Finland's industrial transformation. Elisa has selected 13 startups from eight countries to compete for...

How IoT sensors are helping predict failures and faults on German roads

By the Köln Ost junction on the A3 motorway in the North Rhine-Westphalia region in Germany, a group of engineers has mocked-up a 25,000 square-metre roadway network with a mash-up of internet-of-things (IoT) technologies in order to find ways to predict faults and failures...

European cellular IoT market to grow 384% by 2023, but telcos warned of LoRa, Sigfox

The European market for cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communications will grow to 416.5 million connections by 2023, from 86 million at the end of 2017, according to ABI Research. This growth, of 384 per cent, will come with the launch of new internet-of-things (IoT) based...

China leads global smart meter deployments at end-Q1, study finds

A report by Navigant Research said the Asian country ended March with a total of 496 million installed smart meters   China continues to lead the global smart meter market with 496 million meters installed at the end of the first quarter of 2018, according to...

The market is too fragmengted, even for the punk ethos of IoT, says LoRaWAN leader TTN

The LoRaWAN movement has something of the do-it-yourself ethos of punk music in the late 1970s. The Things Network (TTN), an Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN curation project, is one of its leaders, offering a simplified set of 'internet-of-things' (IoT) connectivity solutions and developer tools, and a...

Design, not price, will drive 2019 adoption of cellular IoT, says Nordic Semiconductor

The adoption of cellular internet-of-things (IoT) technologies is not being slowed by the high price of chipsets, but by the complexity of their design, reckons chip supplier Nordic Semiconductor. Module design is the ultimate barrier to adoption of licensed low-power wider-area (LPWA) technologies like narrowband...

“We’re just getting started on industrial IoT,” says AT&T, as it preps for 2019 NB-IoT rollout

AT&T will go after the broad industrial ‘internet-of-things’ (IIoT) market with an expanded connectivity portfolio as it unfolds its new narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) network across the US and Mexico through 2019. “We’re just getting started on unlocking the promise of the industrial internet of things for...

Smart city alliance looks to establish open source LPWA interface and mesh network

A group of internet-of-things (IoT) companies has established an alliance with cities and utilities to develop an open source wireless interface and data format for low-power wide-area (LPWA) solutions in the smart city and smart energy markets. It also wants to  The non-profit uCIFI Alliance...

LoRaWAN initiatives combine to create UK’s largest free-to-use LPWA network

UK tech incubator Digital Catapult has meshed its Things Connected LoRaWAN network in with the UK footprint of Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN project The Things Network (TTN). The result is the UK’s largest free-to-use low-power wide-area (LPWA) network deployment and innovation community, according to its architects. UK...

AT&T sets 2019 schedule for rollout of NB-IoT networks in the US and Mexico

US carrier AT&T has confirmed it will launch a narrowband ‘internet-of-things’ (NB-IoT) network in the US early next year, and in Mexico by the end of next year. Its support for NB-IoT will run in parallel with its existing LTE-M network. AT&T said the...

Time is right for industrial-scale digital transformation, say GE Digital and Verizon

“If you are not investing in these technologies to drive your own product gains, know that your competitors are already doing so. If you haven’t started, you need to; the industrial IoT (IIoT) race has already begun.” This was the view from GE Digital...

NTT DoComo uses Telit’s IoT module in smart city project in Japan

Telit’s module enables the deployment of LTE CatM1 and NB-IoT technologies IoT specialist Telit announced that its Telit ME910C1-J1 module is being used in a field trial of a delivery service application implemented by Japanese telecommunications firm NTT DoCoMo. Telit said that the ME910C1-J1 features Telit’s...