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 …
Time is right for industrial-scale digital transformation, say GE Digital and Verizon
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemail“If you are not investing in these technologies to drive your own product gains, know that your competitors are already doing so. If you haven’t started, you need to; the …
Ericsson doubles five-year IoT forecast to 3.5bn LTE-M and NB-IoT connections
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailCellular ‘internet-of-thing’ (IoT) connections will reach 3.5 billion by 2023, from around 0.6 billion million today, with compound annual growth of 30 per cent per year, according to Ericsson, with …
NB-IoT and LTE-M to usurp unlicensed LPWA as the go-to choice for IoT by 2023
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe rate of growth of licensed low-power, wide-area (LPWA) network connections will outpace their unlicensed equivalents as the LPWA market swells by 53 per cent per year over the next …
Huawei launches new double-capacity Release-14 NB-IoT solution
FacebookGoogle+TwitterLinkedinemailThe Chinese vendor said the new product doubles the cell capacity of previous terminals Huawei has launched what it claims to be the world’s first 3GPP Release 14-based commercial NB-IoT …
