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 …
The top five industrial IoT platforms – Microsoft and AWS make their moves
Time for an update on the state of play in the industrial IoT platform market; there are numerous studies and rankings of the principle platforms in the space, but Gartner’s …
ABI on 2020: 5G wearables, self-driving trucks, yadda yadda – what won’t happen in 2020
Analyst house ABI Research has pulled together its big guns in each vertical sector to consider how technologywill change things in 2020 – or, rather, how it won’t. Some seasonal …
Why (most) industrial IoT platforms suck – and solve nothing by themselves
Sometimes content gets left on the cutting room floor, and sometimes it does not even make the edit. And often that content is excellent, and deserves a feature all of …
Nippon Gas to upgrade 850,000 gas meters with smart capabilities
Japanese utility firm Nippon Gas (NICIGAS) announced plans to upgrade 850,000 gas meters with smart capabilities in 2020 using a retrofitted gas meter reader developed by UnaBiz and Soracom, the …
Texas Freight selects Orbcomm for in-cab connectivity
Machine-to-Machine and internet of things provider Orbcomm was selected by Houston-based van truckload carrier Texas Freight Services to provide its in-cab solution across Texas Freight Services’ entire fleet of trucks. Orbcomm’s solution …
Microsoft report reveals state of enterprise IoT adoption
Microsoft: “If not addressed, industry challenges may compromise benefits to IoT” Microsoft Corp.’s new research report IoT Signals is designed to provide a global overview of the IoT landscape. The vendor-neutral …
MRO maturity and IIoT (Reader Forum)
Efficient maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) processes are important in every industry to achieve the best possible return on assets (ROA). This is especially true for capital-intensive industries such as …
PTC, Hitachi, SAP top Gartner review of IIoT platforms, but major challenges remain
PTC, Hitachi and SAP have come top of Gartner’s inaugural ‘magic quadrant’ for IIoT platforms, ahead of IBM, Software AG and Accenture. But the analyst house warned also that major …
MTN selects Cisco platform as springboard for IoT services in South Africa
MTN has selected Cisco’s Jasper Control Center platform as a launchpad for enterprise customers’ ‘internet of things’ (IoT) services on its mobile network in South Africa. MTN said interest in …
