
What is the industrial metaverse?
Industrial metaverse applications run the gamut from digital twins to AI proving grounds A lot of conversation in business and leisure around the metaverse focuses on its entertainment and commerce …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

Semtech/Sierra, Telit/Thales set ground for new east-west IoT clash (Analyst Angle)
There were two high profile pieces of M&A news in the IoT hardware space in the last week. First up, on Friday 29th July, Telit and Thales announced that they …

Hybrid IoT gets real, as Semtech confirms Sierra buy to unite LoRa and cellular IoT
Well, it didn’t take long; “advanced talks” between Semtech and Sierra Wireless, as reported yesterday, have quickly concluded, with US firm Semtech confirming a deal to acquire its Canadian counterpart …

What is 5G RedCap, and will it save cellular IoT? The skinny on the (skinny) new 5G tech
The latest release of the 5G New Radio (NR) standard has, at last, fixed a problem for cellular-based sensor comms with the emergence of a cut-down version of 5G for …

Telit to acquire Thales’ IoT unit for 25% of expanded, rebranded industrial IoT business
Italian-American IoT module maker Telit is to acquire the cellular IoT unit of French aerospace, defence, and security company Thales in return for a quarter-share of its expanded industrial IoT …

Sunderland takes smart-city 5G to uni areas; West Midlands wins £10m for 5G innovation
Sunderland City Council and the University of Sunderland in the UK have appointed BAI Communications (BAI), already engaged on a 20-year deal with the city council to build and operate …