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Wyld taps IoT maker Miromico for satellite LoRaWAN modules; ramps-up US sales

Satellite IoT company Wyld Networks has signed a deal with Switzerland-based IoT manufacturer Miromico to design and manufacture a new range of sensor-to-satellite LoRaWAN modules and terminals to support remote and hard-to-reach IoT applications. Miromico will also resell the UK firm’s Wyld Connect portfolio...

IoT gateway market to jump 20% per year with cellular sunsetting, industrial demand

Snap IoT analysis just in from ABI Research; the US-headquartered firm has run the rule over the post-coronavirus market for IoT gateways and concluded, because of industrial IoT takeup among other factors, that total global revenues from the sale of IoT gateways will jump...

Samsung headlines five private 5G gigs in South Korea as part of Industry 4.0 ramp-up

South Korean tech firm Samsung has announced a tranche of new private 5G deployments in its home country, including with three public sector agencies and two private sector hospitals. All the deployments utilise the newly-liberated 4.7 GHz and 28 GHz bands in South Korea,...

AT&T and Nokia deploy private LTE network at APM Terminals port in Yucatán, Mexico

AT&T in Mexico has installed a private LTE network from Finnish vendor Nokia at the APM Terminals port in Puerto Progreso, in the Yucatán in Mexico. The pair are billing the new LTE installation as “industrial grade”. It uses Nokia’s Digital Automaton Cloud (DAC)...

The question is always the same: ‘Can we trust you?’ – NTT on its big-ticket 5G wins

NTT is making waves in the private 5G market right now; deals with BMW on a test installation at its production site in Dingolfing in Germany and with local airport operator Fraport on a major commercial engagement at Frankfurt Airport (which followed a parallel...

Private 5G rocks, says private 5G provider – with bigger savings, returns than Wi-Fi 6

More research from a private cellular network provider into the business value of private cellular networks says… private cellular networks rock, compared to enterprise Wi-Fi. Well, of course they do – the findings echo previous total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) calculations, from Nokia and others (and they...

Telit strikes again with acquisition of US custom IoT startup Mobilogix

Italian-American IoT module maker Telit has followed up its deal for the cellular IoT division of French firm Thales with the purchase of California-based custom IoT solutions startup Mobilogix for an undisclosed fee. The acquisition has closed already, said Telit. Mobilogix will make Telit...

The top 10 industry sectors for private 5G

A California-based research firm, called TECHnalysis Research, has polled 400 US-based organisations either using or interested in using private cellular networks, and come up with a handy (regional-anecdotal) snapshot of the state of the market, with some decent figures to consider. Among them, it...

Euro transport and space agencies team up on satellite comms for smart vehicles

ERTICO, the European public-private collective of road transport agencies and organisations, has signed a provisional deal with the European Space Agency (ESA) to collaborate on space technology and services to improve the safety and reliability of assisted and automated vehicles on European roads. The...

Behind the green curtain – Semtech reveals magic to merge cellular and non-cellular IoT

Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, available here.  So what happens behind the ‘green curtain’, exactly? What is the trick that non-cellular IoT leader Semtech is looking to pull off with its purchase of cellular IoT maker Sierra Wireless? Or rather, how...

A truly connected enterprise is in sight, says Software AG (Reader Forum)

As the modern-day enterprise continues growing in complexity, so too does the data used within it – both in nature and usage. This is especially true of businesses employing IoT networks. Connected devices are becoming increasingly more sophisticated in terms of their functionality and...

Betacom and Airspan deploy private 4G/5G for Texas logistics company Teltech Group

Network design and services firm Betacom is helping logistics company Teltech Group to deploy a private LTE/5G network to automate its 200,000 square-foot warehouse in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. The warehouse will be a “showcase for warehouse automation and Industry 4.0 IoT capabilities”,...

Semtech on Sierra deal – ‘We are siding with the developer, and siding with the planet’

There is a temptation to view this deal as symbolic, somehow, suggests Enterprise IoT Insights; that with the purchase of cellular IoT champ Sierra Wireless, Semtech is stepping beyond the enduringly fragmented, slightly disjointed, vaguely dysfunctional unlicensed low-power end of the wide-area (LPWA) IoT...

Senet approves LoRaWAN gateways and sensors from China-based Milesight

LoRaWAN operator and system provider Senet has said it has approved gateways from China-based Milesight, which majors in analytics-based IoT solutions to run on LoRaWAN and 5G networks. The pair called it a “partnership to qualify Milesight LoRaWAN gateways and sensor-enabled end devices for...

Nordic Semiconductor expands low-power IoT range with first Wi-Fi chip

Nordic Semiconductor has expanded its low-power IoT hardware portfolio to include Wi-Fi 6 connectivity. The Norwegian outfit has debuted its first Wi-Fi chip, the nRF7002, which it describes as a “companion IC (integrated circuit)’ to go alongside its existing products, in order to add...

Paris La Défense preps 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave bands

Paris La Défense, the major metropolitan business district in Paris, has called for applicants to run 5G neutral-host and use-case trials in 26 GHz mmWave spectrum at its site in the French capital. The two trial streams will be open, respectively, to public mobile...

Ondas boosts ‘mission: critical IoT’ with $15.2m deal for Israeli drone firm Airobotics

US private cellular Ondas Holdings, parent of Ondas Networks, is to buy Israeli drone system and platform developer Airobotics in a $15.2 million merger acquisition. The new business will be combined with American Robotics, its other drone subsidiary, acquired by Ondas Holdings for $70.6...

ABI sees a new path for digital maps’ use in vehicles

ABI Research noted that applications such as lane centering, localization and location-enriched sensor fusion will see automotive digital maps expand out of the infotainment domain   Global revenues for intelligent speed assistance (ISA) and autonomous vehicle maps are forecast to surpass $500 million by 2027, according...

Amazon buys iRobot for loads of money – to vacuum homes and home data

Amazon has signed a deal to acquire US smart-home brand iRobot, maker of the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, for $1.7 billion. The disc-shaped Roomba robot – which autonomously vacuums floors using IoT sensors to navigate obstacles, drops, and dirt – integrates with various smart...

Industry IoT Consortium writes satellite IoT guides into networking framework

The Industry IoT Consortium (IIC) has for the first time included an update on satellite connectivity in its Industrial Internet Networking Framework (IINF), its guide to help IoT application developers to design, deploy, and operate industrial networking solutions. It has also joined with the...

Ferrovial, Intel, Liberty Mutual, Toyota join MIT on ‘front line’ of mobility revolution

An automotive-technology-engineering collective has joined a new mobility initiative organised by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the ‘front lines of the mobility revolution’. Their task is to shape a “mobility system”, a press statement goes, that is “sustainable, safe, clean, and accessible”. The...

Siemens completes Brightly buy to bolster smart infrastructure business

Siemens has completed its acquisition of US firm Brightly, a provider of cloud-based asset management and maintenance management software for buildings, and more broadly for built infrastructure. Brightly joins Siemens’ smart infrastructure business, called Siemens Smart Infrastructure. The deal was first announced on June...

Tech truce, vendor tussle, new era, smart play – analysis of the Semtech, Telit deals

The IoT hardware market has, suddenly, shrunk – in order to expand, and to rebalance the western power-play. So say market watchers, reacting to the twin acquisitions this week by US-based chipmaker and Semtech, which has confirmed a deal to splurge $1.2 billion on...

Five thousand private 5G networks in China? BS! Talking definitions, storms in teacups

Someone somewhere said something about 5,000 ‘private networks’ in China. (Forgive me for not having the reference to hand; I am trying to write quickly and cover ground.) The point, as always, seemed to be just that China is running away with it –...