Microsoft joins LoRa Alliance board, labels LoRaWAN ‘critical fabric’ for digital twins
Microsoft has joined the board of the LoRa Alliance, the marketing and development body for the LoRaWAN low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) standard. Microsoft said LoRaWAN was a “critical connectivity fabric” …
LoRa Alliance, Semtech in talks with Amazon to switch Sidewalk over to LoRaWAN
The LoRa Alliance, the technical and marketing group promoting the LoRaWAN protocol for wide-area network (WAN) communications, is looking at ways to tweak the LoRaWAN specification for Amazon, so the …
NIB: Altair’s IoT chip ‘revolution’; Rockwell’s cyber alliance; Cisco and Actility’s LoRa trip
1 | GCF certification sets Altair to “revolutionise cellular IoT” Cellular IoT chipset maker Altair Semiconductor, owned by Sony Corporation, has announced its lab has been officially authorised by the …
LoRaWAN roundup: Senet in the Gulf, Actility and Microchip, Semtech’s Indian IIoT boost
Amid a recent flurry of announcements around LoRa technology and the LoRaWAN protocol, US IoT company finds itself helping out with smart city solutions in the Persian Gulf, microcontroller maker …
PTC tops three separate polls of the leading industrial IoT platforms
Needham-based industrial software maker PTC has come top in a series of reviews of industrial IoT (IIoT) platform providers. Its ThingWorx proposition has been consistently identified by analysts in 2018 …
Cisco in pole, as Newcastle prepares to pick a partner to make it the UK’s smartest city
The city of Newcastle in the UK will procure a “technological partner” after the summer to set down the infrastructure to help it develop its connectivity and sensor capabilities and …
Actility brings “pinpoint” accuracy to LoRa based tracking of supply-chain assets
Actility has struck a deal with mapping and location company HERE Technologies to integrate HERE’s positioning capabilities into its own LoRaWAN management platform. It means internet-of-things (IoT) users can “pinpoint” …
Actility underpins rollout of state-run open-access IoT networks in Sweden
IoT platform provider Actility has been appointed by Öresundskraft, a regional energy and fibre broadband provider in Sweden, to help it build out an open-access LoRaWAN network, starting in the …
Actility launches enterprise version of ThingPark platform for private LoRa networks
IoT connectivity platform provider Actility has released a slimmed-down version of its ThingPark solution for enterprise customers. ThingPark is the most widely deployed LoRa platform among operators of public LoRA …
ThingPark China opens IoT ecosystem lab in Beijing
The IoT firm was established in March through a joint investment by French LPWAN specialist Actility and Ginko Ventures ThingPark China, a LPWA IoT platform and solutions development provider, has …
