
Ignion taps AWS to power new digital-twin design platform for ‘virtual’ IoT antennas
Barcelona based IoT antenna company Ignion is promising to reduce IoT antenna design “from days or weeks to minutes”, following the release of its new design and simulation platform on …

Bouygues to shut down LoRaWAN in France – the start of the end for unlicensed IoT?
Bouygues Telecom has announced it will shut down its LoRaWAN network in France from 2024, and start to sell new IoT business and migrate existing IoT accounts to its cellular-based …

TrakAssure and Wyld combine on satellite-based LoRaWAN for supply chain tracking
UK-based (Sweden-owned) IoT connectivity specialist Wyld Networks and US-based IoT solution provider TrakAssure have announced the first fruit of their joint labour, also with LoRaWAN system provider Senet and satellite …

Sigfox tracker-maker ZeKat buys IoT vendor ffly4u, signs with satellite provider Kinéis
The (real) IoT market is both highly fragmented and deeply incestuous. This is not news, of course; it is to be expected for a market that is competitive and collaborative …

Busy UnaBiz buys Netherlands-based IoT tracking firm Sensatag
IoT solution provider UnaBiz has acquired Sensatag, a five year-old Netherlands-based provider of low-power industrial IoT tracking solutions, for an undisclosed fee. Sensatag has a decent line in Sigfox trackers; …

Cellnex aims to cover 80% of Ireland with IoT network by end-2022
Telecommunications infrastructure operator Cellnex said it is targeting 80% coverage of Ireland with its national Internet of Things (IoT) network by the end of this year. Through its partnership …

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 …

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 …

The trend for amped-up cross-breed IoT – and tension with stripped-back pure-breed IoT
Note, this article forms the introduction to a new editorial report from Enterprise IoT Insights, Hybrid Low-Power IoT – How The IoT Industry Is Balancing Function And Efficiency. The report …

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 …