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Ubiik intros dual-mode Release-15 LTE-M/NB-IoT small cell for industrial IoT

Taiwanese industrial IoT provider Ubiik has released a Release 15 level dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT unit that can operate as a small cell or access point. It is pitching the product to mobile network operators and private LTE network providers, supplying industrial enterprises. The...

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...

Signify completes acquisition of UK smart street-lighting pioneer Telensa

Lighting firm Signify has completed its acquisition of UK-based Telensa, a pioneer in the smart street-lighting market, with a strong customer base among local councils and utility organisations, notably in the UK. The deal was originally announced last July; the transaction fee has not...

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...

UnaBiz signs with France-based satellite provider Kinéis to join IoT space race

Singapore-headquartered terrestrial IoT provider UnaBiz has struck a deal with Kinéis, a France-based satellite IoT spin-off from the French Space Agency (CNES), with a view to provide satellite IoT connectivity for the logistics and transportation industries. Kinéis was created in 2018 by CNES and...

LoRa Alliance adds new self-test capabilities LCTT pre-certification tool

The LoRa Alliance has added a number of new testing capabilities to its LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT), for device makers to pre-test the performance of IoT solutions before seeking formal certification from a LoRa Alliance Authorized Test House (ATH). New capabilities in the...

Five trends that will shape the next decade in IoT (Vodafone on 2022 – and beyond)

Eighteen months ago, in the middle of the first COVID-19 wave, we launched a study to learn more about how businesses were using IoT. We sought to discover if IoT was helping them cope with the unprecedented challenges caused by the global pandemic. The...

Ultra-cheap, long-life, green-by-design – Sigfox teases biodegradable IoT at $0.30

Note, in the week following publication of this article, Sigfox filed for bankruptcy. Coverage of receivership procedings against Sigfox can be found here; read on to hear about the kind of big ideas that, perhaps, undermined Sigfox in the end – but which also...

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...

Batteries not included – the only way to make IoT massive, and also green

Last week, Amsterdam-based Nowi, a specialist in energy harvesting tech for integrated circuit (IC) microchips, announced work with narrowband IoT connectivity provider Sigfox to produce IoT modules that extract power from ambient energy sources, instead of from conventional single-use or rechargeable batteries. It has...

Sony, Kigen, FloLIVE prep IoT solution for hybrid public-private 5G, LTE, NB-IoT

London-based startup FloLIVE, offering global 5G connectivity for high-performance IoT, has combined with SIM specialist Kigen and chip maker Sony Semiconductor Israel (Sony; formerly Altair)) on a new iSIM-based cellular IoT module. The solution embeds the FloLIVE roaming solution onto Sony’s Altair ALT1250 cellular...

Senet and Eutelsat combine on “first and only true-global” LoRaWAN IoT network

US LoRaWAN network operator and cloud provider Senet has partnered with European satellite operator Eutelsat Communications, together with US-based LoRaWAN and GPS tracking solutions provider TrakAssure, and UK-based LoraWAN (and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi mesh) network provider Wyld Networks to integrate terrestrial and satellite LoRaWAN...

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...

LoRaWAN gets the nod from the ITU as proper IoT standard

LoRaWAN has been approved as a standard by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies. The standard has been given the title Recommendation ITU-T Y.4480, as a “low power protocol for wide area wireless networks”. It was...

Quectel White Paper: Why cellular connectivity provides the robust, secure foundation for new revenues in smart metering

Smart meter deployments have been underway across the globe for many years with many millions of devices already deployed. Substantial and sustained further growth is expected as utility companies seek more accurate, granular and timely data to operate their businesses more efficiently. By definition,...

Vodafone adds 24m IoT SIMs in 12 months, tips EU’s Covid recovery plan for new growth

Vodafone added 24 million IoT SIM connections in the 12 months to September 30. Its total connections count stood at 136 million at the end of the period, at the end of the second half of the 2021/22 financial year, up from 112 million...

Hiber signs up to use Inmarsat’s ELERA satellite system for hard-to-reach IoT

Busy Dutch industrial IoT scale-up Hiber has announced it will use Inmarsat’s new ELERA satellite IoT network to expand its own low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT network, which goes under the name Hiberband. The deal allows Hiber, founded in 2016, to “gain years in satellite...

Singapore Zoo installs 1,000 LoRaWAN meters in bid to save 10% of water, electricity

Semtech Corporation has teamed with Singapore-based IoT metering company Sindcon to deploy around 1,000 (“plus”) LoRaWAN energy and water metering devices at the Singapore Zoo. Sindcon worked with local utility Electrique Energie & Metering on the project, also. The target is to save 10...

Sequans partners with iBASIS to offer global eSIM connectivity on NB-IoT and LTE-M

France-based chipmaker Sequans has partnered with roaming provider iBASIS to integrate embedded SIM (eSIM/eUICC) technology and global LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity with its Monarch 2 GM02S NEKTAR development kit (EVK). The pair claimed the arrangement provides “global cellular connectivity for worldwide deployments of massive...

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,...

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)...

‘The right tool for the right job’ – Vodafone doubles NB-IoT cell sites in the UK

Vodafone UK has restated its commitment to NB-IoT and doubled the number of sites in its narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) network to meet increasing demand for IoT services, it says. The firm claims its NB-IoT network in the UK now covers 98 percent of the...

Soracom intros ‘blended’ IoT support for NB-IoT, LTE-M, Sigfox, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, satellite

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom, flush from an injection of new funds from Hitachi and Sony Group, has launched a new platform to allow IoT developers to connect devices using Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and satellite connectivity, as well as low-power wide-area (LPWA) cellular technologies, including...

Citymesh snaps up Belgian Sigfox operator, as Sigfox seeks buyers in France and US

Busy Belgian private network provider and industrial connectivity specialist Citymesh has acquired local Sigfox operator ENGIE M2M. The firm said the addition of ultra-narrowband (UNB) low-power IoT connectivity rounds-out its wireless portfolio for enterprises, which includes localised LTE and 5G connectivity in its own...