BROWSING: Smart Farm

Finnish vendor Nokia and Italian operator Telecom Italia have joined with six international agri-tech firms on a smart agriculture initiative, ConectarAGRO, that seeks to bring connectivity, automation and intelligence to 93 per cent of Brazilian farmers. The Brazilian arm of Telecom Italia (TIM...

New seed-stage private equity firm Ubiquity Ventures has made its first six investments in start-ups. Each of the companies selected for funding are in the industrial transformation or tech security games. Ubiquity Ventures, based in Palo Alto, is focused on “pushing software beyond the screen”,...

IoT America designs solutions for precision agriculture, livestock management and infrastructure monitoring French internet of things (IoT) specialist Kerlink and Internet of Things America (IoT America), a U.S. company dedicated to deploying IoT solutions across rural America, have recently teamed up to enable the deployment of IoT...

  Vodafone Idea said it is already testing automatic metering infrastructure at Genus’s R&D facility in Jaipur   Vodafone Idea Business Services, the enterprise arm of Indian carrier Vodafone Idea, has inked a strategic partnership with compatriot firm Genus Power Infra to establish a commercial proof of...

Ericsson has redefined its portfolio and vision for cellular IoT technologies in four categories, including two new segments for Broadband IoT and Industrial Automation IoT. It said the objective of the exercise is to “outline the evolution” of IoT technologies, to encompass higher-powered LTE and...

Nokia’s biggest opportunity, it explains, is to go beyond its traditional customer base to serve industrial markets directly, with private networking solutions. The total market for private LTE, and later private 5G, masts is potentially twice as large in straight volume terms as the...

This week, 1,500 business types from every-sized enterprise in the burgeoning IoT space will descend on Amsterdam in The Netherlands to chat LoRaWAN, the low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking technology that saw 60 per cent growth last year. The occasion is The Things Conference (January 31...

The carrier carried out a precision agriculture trial in Mississippi last year as part of the firm’s Tech Movement initiative Regional carrier C Spire, which is headquartered in Ridgeland, Miss., aims to partner with farmers and smart equipment firms to provide network and information technology...

Note, this is the second part of a feature/interview Sigfox; click the link for the first, about the company's ‘Zero-G’ strategy and global rollout plans. When it comes to wireless network deployment, US states are like countries, reckons IoT company Sigfox. Of all its achievements,...

IoT networking company Sigfox has big plans for 2019. Every IoT company does, of course, but the French firm has set a target to secure 'global' coverage by setting up in China, India, and Russia, finally, and plugging three major gaps in its existing...

UK super market chain Waitrose is to start farming and selling crops reared by robots. The firm behind the technology claims farming revenues will increase by up to 40 per cent and farming costs will reduce by up to 60 per cent with the...

Qualcomm has launched its long-awaited 9205 LTE modem for internet-of-things (IoT) applications, combining cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity, and support for IoT developers. Module makers Telit and Quectel were quick to announce products based on the 9205 integrated module. The new Qualcomm solution,...

Note, this is the second part of an interview with Mentor Graphics; for the first instalment go here. For Siemens, Mentor Graphics' software capabilities with chip and board design, particularly the latter, was attractive, as the German company sought to build its digital-twinning offer as...

Nordic Semiconductor’s new cellular IoT module, billed as the world’s smallest and lowest power, according to its maker, could “kick-start a new wave” of cellular IoT applications, including in tracking, metering, industrial intelligence, and smart cities. The Trondheim-based firm said its nRF9160 ‘system-in-package’ (SiP) is...

  The company said the IoT network will cover some 3 million hectares across Australia   Australia’s National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) and Goanna Ag announced the rollout of a publicly available LoRaWAN internet of things network for smart irrigation management solutions to Australian cotton growers. The network...

With brand new silicon, a vibrant support network, and a profile burnished in the early IoT rush, LoRa specialist Semtech is looking to spread its wings and rise above the challenge from cellular IoT carriers. Outside of the IoT space, the US semiconductor outfit has...

“The kaleidoscope has been shaken, the pieces are in flux.” It is a phrase written for a different time, and another sphere – a generation ago, which seems like a lifetime, to mark a political transformation, which now seems so slight Because the future is...

Note, this is the third part of a wide-ranging interview with AT&T President of IoT Solutions Chris Penrose; for the first instalment go here. AT&T has used the line before: it is a ‘master systems integrator’, it says. There is a job to create order...

Sigfox is looking to add a half a dozen territories to its global footprint by the end of this year, and pass the 70-mark by the end of next. Its top priority in 2019 is to open operations in China, India, and Russia, as...

Note, this is the second part of a wide-ranging interview with AT&T President of IoT Solutions Chris Penrose; for the first instalment go here. In all, AT&T has connected 48 million devices around the world. It counts 2,000 different “types of deployment” down the years....

The greatest challenge for Chris Penrose, president of IoT solutions at AT&T, is just to order and manage the multiplying opportunities afforded by the advancement of machine connectivity and intelligence. For Penrose, the key is that business is repeatable, and his resources within the business...

The sense to design and build a custom system-on-chip (SoC) is plain, we understand from an earlier companion piece. As we also understand, from the first part of this post, the process of IoT chip design is logical, much like constructing a printed circuit...

The number of cellular IoT connections, comprising NB-IoT and LTE-M technologies, will reach 4.1 billion in 2024. As reference, the new forecast reckons the number of cellular IoT connections, mostly of machines, will outrun the total number of 5G connections, mostly of people, by a...

The wisdom of bespoke chip design for IoT products is plain, and already discussed in some detail. UK based Arm says a custom chip will produce a higher-grade product, with optimised performance, and save money in the end. Fine. But how should developers, with little...