
‘No future Elon Musks in IoT’, ‘no future in IoT without LoRaWAN’ – team LoRa plots next moves
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 …

Arm, AT&T, Ericsson, HPE et al join new Linux group to bring order to edge IoT chaos
The Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. …

Amazon joins Zigbee board to push open standards in smart home, smart city
Amazon is to take a seat on the Zigbee Alliance board of directors. The Zigbee Alliance said the decision shows the IoT market is convening around its technology as a …

Semtech spurs LoRa community with next-gen silicon, stares down cellular IoT carriers
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 …

Six steps to build a custom IoT chip – as directed by Arm (Pt 2)
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, …

Power to the people – how blockchain will democratise the energy market
Will blockchain help to democratise power generation and power consumption? It is a tangential, and tech-minded, question, which came out of the central narrative at European Utility Week 2018 in Vienna …

Electrification and digitisation of energy is key to hitting green targets, says Siemens
The planet’s appetite for energy is growing; demand for electricity shows no signs of slowing. German technology company Siemens told European Utility Week 2018 in Vienna the only way the …

Europe seeks to hamonise 900MHz band for next-gen IoT and RFID devices
The European Commission (EC) will make usage of the 900MHz band for short-range devices consistent across all member states. The move will make the 874-876 and 915-921 MHz bands a …

Deutsche Telekom: The future of the smart home is here, almost (Reader Forum)
The smart home space has been a busy one over the last few years. If anything, the pace of innovation is accelerating. Research consultancy Market Insights predicts the market’s total …

12 years to save the planet – UN report calls for smarter politicians, enterprises, people
We have 12 years to save the planet, calculate scientists in the starkest warning yet that our chances of tackling climate change and averting disaster are slipping away. After 2030, …