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 …
‘A little more or a little less, but it will explode’ – Sigfox on its ‘1B23’ growth target
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSigfox has settled on three primary IoT use cases to deliver massive scale as it carries on its path to reach a billion connections inside the next 24 months, and …
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 …
Industrial alliance forms around telegram-splitting LoRaWAN and NB-IoT-rival MIOTY
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailA band of research organizations and industrial companies have formed the MIOTY Alliance to promote telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB), commercialized as MIOTY, as an alternative low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology to the …
LoRa Alliance sets strategy around spectrum, functionality, “kick-ass” use cases
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe LoRa Alliance set out its stall at The Things Conference, an annual LoRaWAN meetup in Amsterdam, with an agenda to make the IoT market simpler for developers, device makers, …
Sigfox flurry takes footprint to 70 countries; fast-growing UK hits 90% coverage
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSigfox IoT networks are now live in 70 countries. The French firm claims launches in three new markets in 2020, increasing its total country count by four and a half …
Verizon on 2020: “IoT is a generational aspiration – the future is now and it’s exciting”
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Steve Szabo, head of global products and solutions for IoT, Verizon Business: “Digital transformation is a hot topic, but it is not a new topic. And it is, itself, …
‘Enterprises care about the insights, not the data’ – Arm on co-creation in industrial IoT
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThis interview, with Niall Strachan, director of product at UK-based Arm’s Pelion IoT business, is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – …
Vodafone on 2020: ‘Private networks, as-a-service models, hyper-logistics’
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPhil Skipper, global head of IoT business development, Vodafone: “The key question is what will rise and fall in 2020, in terms of digital transformation for industry. At the end …
MIOTY joins with OT platform as plug-and-play industrial IoT bundle
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailBehrTech, the Toronto-based startup in charge of the MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technolgy, has signed with industrial software company MAJiK Systems, from Ontario, to connect legacy industrial equipment with analytics …
