TS-UNB pioneer BehrTech gets $3m grant for Canadian Industry 4.0 lab
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe Canadian government has awarded $3 million (CAD) to IoT connectivity provider BehrTech, an early exponent of telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) technology, to build an industrial IoT lab at its headquarters …
LoRa community hails “unique piece of silicon” as dual-mode IoT comes of age
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe developer community working with LoRa-based IoT solutions took stock of Semtech’s new LR1110 module at a virtual meet-up last month, and declared it a “pretty unique piece of silicon”. …
‘NB-IoT’s time has come,’ says GSMA, as it catches-up on LTE-M, reaches beyond China
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic will accelerate rollout and takeup of narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), which is building a head of steam already. NB-IoT passed 100 million connections in January on the …
AWS joins new alliance recruits to drive LoRaWAN development
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAmazon Web Services has joined the board of the LoRa Alliance, alongside US telecoms company Charter Communications, German untility Netze BW, and US LoRaWAN operator Senet. Members from each company …
Demand for LoRaWAN smart water networks rises in COVID-19 crisis, says Senet
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailLow-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT technologies like LoRaWAN are proving their worth as connectivity technologies for smart water preservation and management during periods of change and crisis, including in the current …
Semtech says LoRa devices optimize quarantine monitoring in China
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail U.S. company Semtech said that several of its customers, including CIAAIoT, EasyLinkin, IOCA, RisingHF, and Winext Technology, have integrated Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol with cloud-based platforms …
MQTT provider and LPWA rival Thingstream snapped up by u-blox for $10.4m
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSwiss IoT company u-blox has bought UK-based Thingstream, which offers low power wide-area (LPWA) IoT connectivity based on the MQTT lightweight messaging protocol. The sale closed for at CHF 10 …
Kerlink lands biggest LoRaWAN deployment in Germany, plus retail and water projects
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFrench IoT network equipment vendor Kerlink has announced the biggest LoRaWAN deployment in Germany, a major LoRaWAN initiative around retail analytics, and pioneering work to help with water management for …
Metals & Mining | Digging with data – unique challenges, cellular solutions (part 3)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThis article continues from here (part 2). It is also available to download (for free) in full, as a standalone report – from here. The report features additional information. It …
Pallet Alliance adds LoRaWAN capabilities to IntelliPallet platform
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailLoRaWAN enhances security and long-range tracking Pallet Alliance has added the LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN connectivity protocol to its Internet-of-Things-enabled IntelliPallet platform, the company said in a release. The …
