The four principle LPWA connectivity techologies for IoT deployments
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail 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 …
New business cases, technologies driving NB-IoT toward market acceptance (Reality Check)
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailWith the announcements by three major U.S. telecom carriers this year, and significant activity taking place in China, narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) has come out of the shadows in a big …
How IoT sensors are helping predict failures and faults on German roads
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailBy the Köln Ost junction on the A3 motorway in the North Rhine-Westphalia region in Germany, a group of engineers has mocked-up a 25,000 square-metre roadway network with a mash-up …
European cellular IoT market to grow 384% by 2023, but telcos warned of LoRa, Sigfox
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe 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
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe 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
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe 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 …
Chunghwa Telecom inks 5G, smart city agreement with Taipei
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailTaiwanese telco will deploy 5G base stations and smart sensors in streetlights and traffic signals Taiwanese telecommunications firm Chunghwa Telecom signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Taipei …
Smart city alliance looks to establish open source LPWA interface and mesh network
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailA group of internet-of-things (IoT) companies has established an alliance with cities and utilities to develop an open source wireless interface and data format for low-power wide-area (LPWA) solutions in …
How Deutsche Telekom’s internet-of-hives is helping German honeybees
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailTelecoms operator Deutsche Telekom has connected two beehives in the grounds of its headquarters in Bonn, in Germany, to its narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) network, as it seeks to use digital technologies …
AT&T sets 2019 schedule for rollout of NB-IoT networks in the US and Mexico
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailUS carrier AT&T has confirmed it will launch a narrowband ‘internet-of-things’ (NB-IoT) network in the US early next year, and in Mexico by the end of next year. Its support …
