BROWSING: IoT Accelerator
Ericsson and Aeris accentuate IoT positives at MWC
Ericsson and Aeris Communications sought, somehow, to raise confidence in their conjoined IoT strategy at MWC, following the sale of Ericsson’s loss-making IoT Accelerator business to long-time partner Aeris at the end of last year. In Barcelona, Ericsson hosted Aeris on its stand, and...
Ericsson quits IoT – agrees sale of loss-making IoT Accelerator business to Aeris
Ericsson has agreed to sell its IoT business, including its IoT Accelerator connectivity management platform and Connected Vehicle Cloud platform, to California-based IoT provider Aeris. The Swedish firm said its IoT business, expected to post net sales of SEK 0.8 billion ($76.85 million) in...
Ericsson extends SIM management to Cradlepoint units, simplifies IoT airtime
Eighteen months after its acquisition of Cradlepoint, Ericsson has integrated Cradlepoint's NetCloud platform with its own IoT Accelerator platform and extended SIM management to Cradlepoint’s LTE and 5G routers and adapters. The move allows enterprise connectivity providers on the Ericsson portal to provide enterprise...
Ericsson intros new IoT Accelerator facility to connect cellular IoT devices to AWS, others
Ericsson has introduced a ‘cloud connect’ function into its IoT Accelerator platform to make it easy for enterprises to connect cellular IoT devices to public cloud endpoints. A press statement from the firm led with connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS), and included a...
Stanley Black & Decker appoints T-Mobile and Ericsson for IoT connectivity
US manufacturer Stanley Black & Decker is working with T-Mobile and Ericsson to connect its industrial tools and household hardware.
The deal for airtime is with T-Mobile in Austria, and designates its narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) network in Austria for low-power wide-area (LPWA) connectivity. Ericsson is...
L-SPARK, TELUS launch accelerator for Canadian IoT ventures
Canadian firms BlackBerry and Solace are also participating in the IoT acceleration initiative
 Canadian software-as-a-service (SaaS) accelerator L-SPARK and compatriot telecommunications services company TELUS have inked a partnership to launch the Secure IoT Accelerator program in collaboration with BlackBerry Limited and Solace.
The Secure IoT Accelerator...
Ericsson adds ThingWorx to IoT Accelerator to ease IoT market’s growing pains
Swedish telecoms vendor Ericsson has added PTC’s Thingworx platform, offering tools for developing industrial ‘internet of things’ (IoT) and augmented reality (AR) services, to its cloud-based IoT Accelerator platform, designed to make it easier for developers to launch IoT applications. It is the latest...