Ultra-cheap, long-life, green-by-design – Sigfox teases biodegradable IoT at $0.30
Sigfox reckons it can get IoT hardware costs down to just 30 cents ($0.30) per unit, with battery life lasting up to 13 years. It suggests it can, on paper, …
Wirepas lands indoor tracking, monitoring deals – including key contract with Orange
IoT connectivity company Wirepas has secured a couple of notable deals, including with Orange Business Services (OBS), the enterprise IT and system integration division of French operator Orange, which will …
Qualcomm seeks to remake physical retail – as touchless, frictionless and filled with IoT
Qualcomm Technologies has identified physical retail as a key growth sector for its IoT chip business. The sector has been severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, it said, and requires …
Batteries not included – the only way to make IoT massive, and also green
Last week, Amsterdam-based Nowi, a specialist in energy harvesting tech for integrated circuit (IC) microchips, announced work with narrowband IoT connectivity provider Sigfox to produce IoT modules that extract power …
‘All the capabilities to be a front-runner’ – OBS and the SI model for Industry 4.0
Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, under the headline: ‘A “different beast” in the telco pack – often it’s not about 5G at all, says Orange’. For …
A ‘different beast’ in the telco pack – often it’s not about 5G at all, says Orange
Orange’s supply of a non-cellular Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) indoor tracking system for aerospace manufacturer Safran Aircraft Engines in France, announced in November, is the jumping off point for a …
Orange plays SI in supply of non-cellular BLE tracking for Safran Aircraft Engines
Orange Business Services, the IT and system integrator (SI) division of mobile operator Orange, has delivered a non-cellular Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based indoor tracking system for aerospace manufacturer Safran …
Morse Micro confirms Wi-Fi certification of HaLow chips, modules, reference designs
Semiconductor company Morse Micro, developing Wi-Fi HaLow for low-power mid-range IoT connectivity, has confirmed its various chipsets, modules, and reference designs have been certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance as part …
Nordic offers embedded ML in resource-constrained cellular IoT modules
Nordic Semiconductor is now offering embedded machine learning (ML) software with its cellular-based IoT chipset portfolio. The move continues its partnership with US-based Edge Impulse, which makes miniaturised ML (‘TinyML’) …
PostNL connects 250,000 roll containers using BLE trackers in the Netherlands
Netherlands postal logistics provider PostNL has deployed Bluetooth-based tracking beacons on 250,000 roll containers. It has partnered with Polish IoT provider Kontakt.io on the project. PostNL delivers 1.1 million parcels …
