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IoT provider Soracom lists on Tokyo Stock Exchange to fund faster growth

Japan-based KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, in the third-tier Growth Market section for emerging high-growth companies. Soracom claims to have more than 20,000 startups and enterprises on its books, connecting around six million IoT devices globally.   Its IoT...

Cisco and Kajeet combine cellular and Wi-Fi in managed enterprise IoT service

Managed enterprise IoT provider Kajeet has a deal to integrate its Sentinel platform with Cisco’s cellular gateways and mobility services platform. The pair hailed it as a “strategic partnership”; they also said in a statement they had only “initiated discussions”. But it sounds also...

Quectel steps into the LoRa game, partners with The Things Industries

In case you missed it (we did); China-based Quectel Wireless Solutions, the biggest cellular IoT module maker on the planet, is getting into the non-cellular low-power-wide-area (LPWA) IoT game with the launch of a new LoRa-based module, called KG200Z, based on an STM32WLEx series...

First ever decline in cellular IoT shipments, says report – RedCap to the rescue?

The global market for cellular IoT module slipped by around two percent in terms of annual shipment volumes in 2023, compared to 2022. It is the first time the cellular IoT sales have shrunk over a 12 month period, according to Counterpoint Research, which...

‘Complexity kills’ – Ray Ozzie sings a Blues (to rouse the IoT crowd)

IoT is hard, man. Even talking about it, in any proper detail, is hard. Except if you’re talking with Ray Ozzie – over a breakfast croissant at MWC in Barcelona last month. Ozzie, the avuncular former tech chief at Microsoft, who steered the US...

Power ‘no longer a concern’ – Sony hails ‘revolutionary’ LTE-M/NB-IoT SoC

Cellular IoT chipset maker Sony Semiconductor Israel has launched a new dual-mode LTE-M/NB-IoT system-on-chip (SoC), the ALT1350, with a low-power application MCU, a sensor-hub for data processing, enhanced security, iSIM location technology, a customisable sub-GHz LPWA/FAN transceiver, and satellite IoT (NTN) options. It is...

Hard truths and fairytales from the sharp-end of IoT (plus lessons for private 5G)

MWC is a brilliant show, of course. Not because of the big talk and shiny displays, although they are fun, too. But because you can get lost on the main streets and back alleys of this pop-up tech metropolis for a week at the...

Installed base of eSIM cellular IoT devices to hit 3.6bn by 2030 (from 1bn)

The installed base of IoT devices using embedded SIM (SIM) technology will top 3.6 billion by 2030, up from just over one billion in 2023, reckons analyst house Omdia. Growth, of 260 percent in the period, will be spurred by advances in eSIM technology,...

OptConnect agrees pan-American cellular IoT tie-up with Chile-based M2M DataGlobal

US-based IoT connectivity provider OptConnect has acquired Chilean firm M2M DataGlobal for an undisclosed fee. The deal means OptConnect will manage cellular IoT across North and South America. The M2M DataGlobal brand will be retained in Latin America, along with its headquarters in Santiago,...

Former Semtech/LoRa-boss Fulton joins US IoT firm Blues

US-based cellular IoT module maker Blues has appointed Alistair Fulton (pictured), formerly in charge of LoRa activity at chipmaker Semtech, as its new chief operating officer and vice president (“of ecosystem”) to handle the firm’s go-to-market strategy and partner base. Fulton has been around...

How cellular IoT found its groove – five things to know about the eSIM revolution

In case you missed it, SIM specialist Kigen hosted a webinar earlier this month about smart metering – but more about the impact of embedded SIM (eSIM) technology, actually, for the whole IoT market – which presented a thorough view of the varying rates...

RedCap surge to drive cellular IoT volumes up 70% to 5.4b by 2030

Mass adoption of reduced-capability 5G (5G RedCap) for mid-tier cellular IoT applications will start from next year (2024), commencing in China, reckons analyst house Omdia. The arrival of RedCap, it said, will help to drive overall cellular IoT connections to 5.4 billion in 2030,...

Local MNOs vs global MVNOs in smart metering – legacy telcos rule, says Kamstrup

An interesting angle came up last week in a webinar about smart metering, hosted by eSIM specialist Kigen, where Danish meter maker Kamstrup responded to a question about how utility companies go about choosing connectivity technologies and connectivity providers by declaring cellular as the...

Kigen announces eSIM / iSIM deals with IoT platform providers Neue and TEAL

Ireland-based SIM specialist Kigen has issued a couple of announcements about supply deals in the eSIM / iSIM space. The firm is working separately with IoT platform providers Neue and TEAL, from Sweden and the US, to combine its SIM security and operating system...

From the high seas to outer space – four IoT tracking trends in 2024 (Reader Forum)

Based on his insights gained over the past decade, Kristoff Van Rattinghe, chief executive at Belgium-founded IoT tracking firm Sensolus, discusses how IoT technology is developing and the trends companies can expect in 2024. Containers, pallets, special loading racks, trailers, boxes and mobile machinery –...

‘We’ll ask how the economy ever ran offline’ – pressure to fast-track ambient IoT

There is a niche committee vote this week at a meeting of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to decide whether ‘ambient’ IoT, to enable energy-harvesting in battery-less cellular devices, should be included as a work item in development of the Release 19 of...

Broadband IoT more-massive than ‘massive’ IoT – way less than short-range IoT

The total number of cellular IoT connections will reach around three billion at the end of 2023, reckons Ericsson, with most, and the increasing majority, connected on so-called ‘broadband’ cellular IoT technologies LTE (4G) and 5G. The arrival of reduced-capability (RedCap) 5G through 2024/5...

Carlsberg makes beer taps smart with cellular IoT and cloud analytics

Danish IoT MVNO Onomondo has been appointed to supply global IoT connectivity to brewing company Carlsberg Group to connect draught beer taps in pubs, bars, and restaurants around the world. The solution includes an IoT management platform, integrated into Carlsberg’s new DaughtMaster cloud analytics...

IoT market for critical infrastructure monitoring set for 28% CAGR surge

A new study by ABI Research says IoT sensors to monitor the structural ‘health’ of critical infrastructure will number 22.9 million by 2030, with retrofitted wireless IoT sensors, using long-range cellular IoT and other non-cellular short- and long-range technologies, growing at a compound...

A ‘revolution’ in container tracking – t42 supplies satellite IoT to 50 shipping firms

Barcelona-based satellite IoT provider Sateliot, building an NB-IoT satellite system based on Release 17 specs in the 5G NR cellular standard, has announced a deal with freight software and analytics company t42 to deploy “thousands of 5G-IoT sensors” in shipping containers for “more than...

Energy transition needs a ‘flatter (cellular IoT) architecture’, says Kigen

Note this article is continued from a previous entry, under the title ‘Cellular has changed’ – eSIM positions cellular IoT for energy transition. Click here for the previous instalment. But, as said, metering is a weird game, which employs different technologies in different local markets...

‘Cellular has changed’ – eSIM positions cellular IoT for energy transition

Utility providers are grappling with the quickening pace of energy transition as an urgent response to climate change, and to escalating pressure about how power is produced and consumed. At the same time, they are faced with a tangle of counter pressures as markets...

Blues and RAKwireless team up to offer modular industrial IoT modules

IoT provider Blues and hardware maler RAKwireless have combined their connectivity and hardware products in a modular industrial IoT developer solution, offering interchangeable IoT components and global IoT connectivity. The solution combines a pre-configured IoT connectivity solution from the former with a composable interface...

IoT maker u-blox claims first “gold-standard” cyber-secure cellular IoT modules

IoT module maker u-blox is the first out of the blocks, it says, to have its LTE-based Cat 1 and Cat 4 IoT modules certified as “gold-standard” cyber-secure by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The company’s LARA-R6 (Cat 1) and LARA-L6 (Cat 4)...