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Hybrid IoT by vertical market – and how Sidewalk and Helium have blurred the lines

Note, this article is taken from a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights, Hybrid Low-Power IoT – How The IoT Industry Is Balancing Function And Efficiency. The report is available here, or by clicking on the image at the bottom of the page....

Backers back, bidders talk – the latest in the Sigfox saga as sale deadline looms

Last update from us on the Sigfox “soap opera” (someone else's words), almost / perhaps, before the credits roll at the end of next week on its latest tangled episode (or the whole tragic series) – and as Enterprise IoT Insights breaks from straight...

UnaBiz ‘in pole position’ to rescue Sigfox ‘for operators’ – Semtech, Actility in contention

Singapore-based UnaBiz is in “pole position” to pick up the tech assets of troubled IoT firm Sigfox, in receivership, as a number of other groups and organisations also prepare bids before the auction process closes on February 25. Others in the frame include US...

Troubled IoT firm Sigfox plunged into rapid three-week auction – sale closes Feb 25

The court-appointed receivers in charge of France-based ultra-narrowband IoT technology company Sigfox have initiated a competitive bidding process for the company’s various technology assets, customer accounts, and going-concerns, including its France based Sigfox network operation. The auction, to recover funds in default and potentially...

Sigfox placed into receivership in France – with six months to find buyers, save jobs

Sigfox has been placed into receivership in France, with a six month window to find a new owner. The company’s chief executive, Jeremy Prince, instructed the Toulouse Commercial Court to open the procedure yesterday (January 26), to place Sigfox, as well as local Sigfox...

Disposable dollar-priced IoT – how massive will it really get?

The narrative about the environmental impact of disposable IoT (see here and here; check back for upcoming report on The Green Credentials of 5G and IoT), begs the question, of course; how many, exactly? How massive does ‘massive IoT’ get? And how big is...

Amazon intros LoRa bridge device to move Sidewalk from smart homes to smart cities

We are a little slow off the mark with this one, but there was a notable missive last week from Amazon about IoT network-building in the US, as the firm announced a new LoRa bridge device, by its own smart-home security subsidiary Ring, to...

Semtech, Lacuna Space redouble satellite IoT efforts to extend LoRa to whole planet

Satellite IoT is everywhere, suddenly. Further to Inmarsat’s L-band satellite IoT solution with energy firm RWE in the UK, and LoRaWAN outfit Senet’s arrangement on satellite IoT tracking with Eutelsat yesterday (January 12), California-based chip maker Semtech Corporation has announced a further initiative with...

Semtech intros LoRa software upgrade to make LoRaWAN more scalable and robust

California-based chipmaker Semtech, which owns and licences the non-cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) LoRa technology and LoRaWAN protocol, has released a software upgrade for LoRa integrated circuits (IC) and gateways to increase network capacity and performance, and enable direct data transmissions from IoT sensors to...

MachineQ kicks off CoreKinnect venture with 325,000 LoRa units for car retailer ADESA

Comcast-owned LoRaWAN operator MachineQ has developed an outdoor asset tracking solution for inventory management with US-based IoT hardware developer CoreKinnect. The pair have deployed more than 325,000 of the devices, along with 160 LoRaWAN gateways, at 80-odd locations in North America for ADESA, part...

Technology trends for a smarter, sustainable planet (Semtech on 2022)

There is an increasing requirement for sensing and monitoring technologies to support a more sustainable world. With resources in increasingly short supply, monitoring the use of those resources becomes even more important, whether they’re water, electricity, minerals or crops, to enable the most efficient...

Semtech Webinar: The transition from ‘Connected’ to ‘Smart’ by leveraging data & analytics

 Accessibility to Internet of Things (IoT) technology and the diverse data it uncovers is key to combating some of the globe's most significant challenges that require improved situational awareness, from natural disasters to hunger and even sustainability. Increasingly, more and more companies are leveraging...

730,360 kilometres, 2.44 seconds – scientists bounce LoRa message off the Moon

A team of scientists in Europe has bounced a LoRa message off the Moon. The feat sets a new distance record of 730,360 kilometres for the distance travelled by a LoRa-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT message. It was also the first time a data...

Updates from LoRa-land – air-quality installs in urban forests, wildfire hotspots, buildings

Various updates from LoRa-land, and beyond... Semtech, the owner of LoRa tech and licensing, said environmental IoT provider ICT International, is using LoRa-based devices on LoRaWAN networks to improve urban forest management and carbon accounting. ICT International’s “plant physiology devices” are able to monitor...

‘NB-IoT could be stopped at any time’ – IoT rivals eye a knockout (NB-IoT challenge #11)

This article is continued from a previous entry, covering key NB-IoT challenges 1-5 (available here) and key NB-IoT challenges 6-10 (available here). All of these articles are taken from a new report, entitled NB-IoT – what has gone wrong, and when will it go...

Semtech hails new ‘zero-maintenance, zero-carbon’ energy-harvesting LoRa solution

Semiconductor maker Semtech has announced a new LoRa-based solution, combining a power-efficient microcontroller and an edge tracker module, that harvests ambient energy from the environment to preclude the need for a battery completely. The California-based firm called the solution “maintenance free” and “zero carbon”,...

A rock and a hard place – how NB-IoT finally escaped the long shadow of 5G (and 2G)

Massive IoT? What a joke. Except no one in the business of massive IoT is laughing, because no one has given up on it. And because everyone is too busy trying to make it work. For the cellular industry, that means getting NB-IoT (and,...

Kerlink puts LoRaWAN on Dutch streetlights; Senet offers it wholesale in the US

Further to the news yesterday of Microsoft's appointment to the board of the LoRa Alliance, the rest of the LoRaWAN ecosystem continues to move at a decent clip, it appears. Two of the leading lights in the non-cellular IoT firmament, in the form of...

Semtech collaborates on LoRa monitoring solutions for gas utilities

California-based semiconductor maker Semtech has announced it is working with IoT developer and engineering services company Oxit, based in North Carolina, to develop smart energy solutions for LoRaWAN networks. Semtech said it will support Oxit’s “intelligent energy initiatives” by providing LoRa-based low-power wide-area (LPWA)...

‘Open to any discussion’ – Sigfox on hooking up with LoRaWAN, scaling up with Google

Let’s cut to the chase: will Sigfox and LoRaWAN, painted as arch rivals at the low-power end of the IoT space, ever be combined into a single IoT solution? Will the owners of these twin technologies, which have propped up large parts of the...

The long wait for massive IoT is almost over, says Sigfox’s top brass

Sigfox was just ahead of its time; the high-cost control-freakery of its business model has been a necessary consequence of its seismic undertaking, a decade ago, to create a market from scratch. But that work is finished, almost; demand among global enterprises for IoT...

‘If you could deploy LoRa on a Sigfox network…’ – the case for low-power IoT crossover

Note this story is continued from a previous post, asking if it is 'time for Sigfox and LoRaWAN to call a truce – and team up'. The previous entry can be found here. Sometimes, the argument is so passionate and the logic is so...

Time for Sigfox and LoRaWAN to call a truce – and team up? Some say so

After years of fierce rivalry, stretching back to the early days of IoT in France, spilling over into open hostility in recent years as the fabled IoT market has struggled for ‘massive’ scale, has the time come, finally, for Sigfox and LoRaWAN to bury...

Digi International buys LoRaWAN module manufacturer Haxiot

In case you missed it (because we did); US industrial IoT manufacturer Digi International has acquired Dallas-based LoRaWAN firm Haxiot for an undisclosed fee. The deal closed at the end of last month (March). Haxiot’s portfolio includes LoRaWAN-based modules, devices, gateways, a network server solution,...