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Wireless Logic buys cellular IoT roaming provider Arkessa

Private equity group ECI Partners has sold IoT roaming provider Arkessa to IoT and SIM management company Wireless Logic for an undisclosed fee. The UK-based venture firm said it had made a 210 percent return on its original investment (ROI) in Arkessa, and an...

Nordic buys Wi-Fi assets from Imagination Tech to mix Wi-Fi with BLE and cellular IoT

Nordic Semiconductor has acquired Ensigma, the Wi-Fi division of UK-based semiconductor and software design firm Imagination Technologies Group, for an undisclosed fee. The deal is for Ensigma’s development operations, including most of its staff, and tech assets and intellectual property. Imagination Technologies Group is owned...

Nordic signs with Arkessa to offer global roaming on dual NB-IoT/LTE-M module

Nordic Semiconductor has struck a deal with Arkessa to offer wider international cellular IoT connectivity with its nRF9160 system-in-package (SiP), the Trondheim-based firm’s flagship dual-mode LTE-M and NB-IoT module. Global roaming has remained a challenge for the broad IoT sector, with mainstream telecoms operators running...

STMicro scores takeover ‘hat-trick’ with deal for IoT and 5G specialist SOMOS

STMicroelectronics (STMicro) has followed up the summer purchases of France-based ultra-wideband (UWB) specialist BeSpoon and Canada-based cellular IoT connectivity firm Riot Micro with a deal for cellular IoT and 5G chipmaker SOMOS Semiconductor. The Franco-Italian firm said the acquisition strengthens its product portfolio, intellectual property,...

Printable NB-IoT tracking labels: Vodafone, Bayer and the deal to make IoT ‘massive’

Note, a version of this article appears in a new report on the asset tracking sector, called Asset Tracking – and the March Towards Massive IoT. The report can be downloaded here. The race-to-the-bottom in the IoT market has taken another turn, and plunged downwards...

SHV Energy uses Orange to connect, track and monitor gas tanks in Europe and the US

Netherlands-based SHV Energy is to deploy smart meters and telemetry on its gas tanks in Europe and the US. The move is geared to improve asset management, supply-chain security, and truck routing, to reduce fuel costs and carbon emissions. The solution will use LTE-M...

Sierra Wireless provides ‘full-stack’ IoT for fertilizer tank LTE-M solution

IoT provider Sierra Wireless has been selected by IoT tracking firm Ekatra to underpin its industrial tank monitoring solution, which is geared particularly towards fertilizer tanks in the farming industry. Ekatra has integrated the Cabadian firm’s ‘full-stack’ Octave IoT platform into its new product,...

AT&T bundles Azure into private LTE gateway for backhauling global IoT data

AT&T has released an LTE and LTE-M gateway device to backhaul data from IoT sensors over cellular in global markets. The new solution, presented by AT&T as a ‘guardian device’, integrates silicon, software, and cloud services from Microsoft Azure. It is positioned, like a private...

Cellular IoT to dominate asset tracking as 80% of devices offer NB-IoT, LTE-M

More than 80 percent of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the asset tracking space are releasing products for cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) network connectivity, with high growth in LTE-M trackers as mobile operators rollout LTE-M networks. Tech advisory firm ABI Research polled 43 “major” OEMs,...

Asset tracking growth at 50% per year as IoT devices get cheaper, smaller, smarter

Shipments of asset trackers will increase by more than 50 percent annually through 2024, driven by growth in low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks and smaller, cheaper and smarter IoT devices.  Asset tracking is one of the highest-growth segments in the IoT market, concludes a new study...

Rogers, Roambee to provide real-time asset monitoring

  Canadian company Rogers for Business and Roambee announced a strategic collaboration to provide Canadian businesses with real-time monitoring for shipments and assets. With COVID-19 continuing to have an impact on the shipment of goods across borders, Roambee’s solution allows businesses to have more visibility of their goods...

Five verticals for hybrid IoT – where short- and long-range IoT tech meet

Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems. Go here for the full report, which is free to download. A webinar on the same subject,...

“A private 5G backbone with BLE breakouts” – the Vodafone view on hybrid IoT

Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems. Go here for the full report, which is free to download. A webinar on the same subject, with panellists...

Deutsche Telekom launches LTE-M network in Germany

  Deutsche Telekom has completed the rollout of its 5G-ready LTE-M network across Germany, the carrier said in a release. The German operator said that LTE-M technology is now commercially available in both postpaid and prepaid IoT offerings, including its Business Smart Connect LPWA and M2M tariffs. To secure interoperability,...

STMicro strikes deals for UWB specialist BeSpoon and NB-IoT chipmaker Riot Micro

France-based semiconductor manufacturer STMicroelectronics (STMicro) has signed agreements to purchase the entire share capital of France-based ultra-wideband (UWB) specialist BeSpoon and the cellular IoT connectivity assets of Canada-based Riot Micro. The deals will strengthen STMicro’s wireless connectivity portfolio, notably its STM32 family of micro-controllers, the...

Who is winning what – in the great LPWA networking war? (Round 2)

Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems. Go here for the full report, which is free to download. A webinar on the same subject,...

Nordic releases hybrid IoT hardware and software for mixing cellular IoT and BLE

Chip maker Nordic Semiconductor is combining low-power long- and short-range IoT connectivity technologies in hardware and software, at developer level, for solution makers to run the pair together in test applications.  Nordic has two hybrid IoT offers, in the form of its nRF9160 developer kit...

Three times LPWA networks work best for backhauling short-range IoT sensor systems

Sometimes IoT technologies work better in concert. The standard model for IoT networks to combine two or more different connectivity technologies is when short-range wireless protocols are used in the sensors themselves. Often, these short-range sensors utilise IEEE 802.15.4 based protocols such as Bluetooth Low...

Avnet offers NB-IoT and LTE-M with cellular-embedded IoT modules after BICS deal

US electronics distributor Avnet is selling IoT modules ready-bundled with cellular IoT connectivity following a deal with international carrier services company BICS. Avnet’s semiconductor division, Avnet Silica, is offering IoT modules with embedded 2G, 3G, 4G, NB-IoT, and LTE-M connectivity via BICS’ global embedded-SIM (eSIM) solution,...

Sigfox opens in Puerto Rico with mission to make “next smart country”

IoT network provider Sigfox has expanded into Puerto Rico via a service provider agreement with local private equity firm, The Phoenix Fund. The new Sigfox Puerto Rico operation will also have support from Sigfox’s US-based business. The Phoenix Fund was established in 2018, as a...

Why short-range and wide-area IoT make a marriage of perfect convenience

Short-range wireless technologies such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), notably, are suited for widespread sensor networks for monitoring all sorts of processes. The chips are cheap and robust, their battery life is excellent, and it is easy to link them together into networks. Plus, the...

“The future is a workbench, not a platform” – LoRa leader TTN on how to hit pay-dirt in IoT

IoT platforms are not a panacea for the complex inter-workings of industrial IoT systems. They are over-the-top interfaces, which just introduce another layer of complexity to the market. The IoT sector will only hit pay-dirt when there are easier mechanisms to fashion bespoke solutions...

A 2019 surge, a 2020 wobble, a 2025 boom – NB-IoT and LTE-M on track, says Ericsson

Momentum for NB-IoT and LTE-M will slow in 2020 with the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, but not enough to knock mid-term projections for the cellular IoT sector. The Swedish telecoms vendor has even revised up its six-monthly market forecast, with cellular IoT  to top 5.2...

LTE-M and BLE combine in US power controller to slash water-heater wastage

US engineering and product design agency Apricity has devised a combined LTE-M and BLE solution for utilities in the US to control demand from domestic water heaters and reduce supply from coal-fired auxiliary power stations. Domestic water heaters are estimated to be responsible for up...