LTE-M and NB-IoT will carry 75% of asset tracking by 2023, claims report
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailCellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks running on LTE-M and NB-IoT technologies will account for three-quarters of the installed base of asset trackers in 2023, according to new research. These will …
Sigfox operator UnaBiz raises $10m from KDDI and ENGIE for East-Asia LPWA rollout
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSigfox operator UnaBiz has raised over $10 million in Series A funding to develop ‘internet-of-things’ (IoT) infrastructure and services in Singapore and Taiwan. The funding included investments from Japanese operator …
Five ways Sigfox alarms are helping farmers fight robbers, rustlers and vandals
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailLow-power wide-area (LPWA) networks like Sigfox are providing the platform for internet-of-thing (IoT) based alarm systems that are cheap and easy to install. They also provide coverage to rural areas, …
The four principle LPWA connectivity techologies for IoT deployments
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail The internet of things (IoT) is gathering momentum in the enterprise space. Analyst firm Machina Research anticipates there will be three billion low-power wide-area (LPWA) connections by 2025, and …
Cisco in pole, as Newcastle prepares to pick a partner to make it the UK’s smartest city
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe city of Newcastle in the UK will procure a “technological partner” after the summer to set down the infrastructure to help it develop its connectivity and sensor capabilities and …
European cellular IoT market to grow 384% by 2023, but telcos warned of LoRa, Sigfox
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe European market for cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) communications will grow to 416.5 million connections by 2023, from 86 million at the end of 2017, according to ABI Research. This growth, …
The market is too fragmengted, even for the punk ethos of IoT, says LoRaWAN leader TTN
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe LoRaWAN movement has something of the do-it-yourself ethos of punk music in the late 1970s. The Things Network (TTN), an Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN curation project, is one of its leaders, …
Design, not price, will drive 2019 adoption of cellular IoT, says Nordic Semiconductor
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe adoption of cellular internet-of-things (IoT) technologies is not being slowed by the high price of chipsets, but by the complexity of their design, reckons chip supplier Nordic Semiconductor. Module …
The top 10 smart cities – ranked according to their infrastructure and potential
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNew research by McKinsey Global Institute has evaluated the planet’s smartest cities on both their underlying infrastructure and their over-lying applications, and ranked them in order on both counts. Here, …
Senet claims LoRaWAN in 80 markets, invites towercos to join its LPWA market
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailUS IoT company Senet has expanded its LoRaWAN capabilities to over 80 markets. It has also introduced a raft of server enhancements for its LoRaWAN platform, to simplify the deployment, …
