Sigfox opens in Puerto Rico with mission to make “next smart country”
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIoT 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 …
Bemis mixes Sigfox and BLE for indoor and outdoor tracking of smart shopping carts
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFor three years Bemis Manufacturing had been looking to engineer a smart shopping cart. It had cycled through various IoT technologies only to draw a blank each time, with coverage …
“The future is a workbench, not a platform” – LoRa leader TTN on how to hit pay-dirt in IoT
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIoT 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 …
Land Rover sees “unprecedented” response from Sigfox-based direct marketing
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailBritish car brand Land Rover has utilised Sigfox connectivity in an interactive marketing campaign to encourage UK drivers to book a test drive. The campaign saw a 10-fold jump in …
‘NB-IoT’s time has come,’ says GSMA, as it catches-up on LTE-M, reaches beyond China
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic will accelerate rollout and takeup of narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), which is building a head of steam already. NB-IoT passed 100 million connections in January on the …
Sigfox Germany bolsters portfolio with new range of smart building IoT sensors
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSigfox Germany has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of a range of sensors from Finnish IoT firm Connected Inventions. The new range includes sensors for monitoring dust, temperature, …
Sigfox waives airtime fees for new IoT innovations to fight COVID-19 pandemic
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSigfox is offering to waive connectivity costs for US-based IoT projects developed on its connectivity infrastructure that seek to address critical challenges related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The French …
MQTT provider and LPWA rival Thingstream snapped up by u-blox for $10.4m
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSwiss IoT company u-blox has bought UK-based Thingstream, which offers low power wide-area (LPWA) IoT connectivity based on the MQTT lightweight messaging protocol. The sale closed for at CHF 10 …
‘A little more or a little less, but it will explode’ – Sigfox on its ‘1B23’ growth target
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailSigfox has settled on three primary IoT use cases to deliver massive scale as it carries on its path to reach a billion connections inside the next 24 months, and …
Metals & Mining | Digging with data – unique challenges, cellular solutions (part 3)
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThis article continues from here (part 2). It is also available to download (for free) in full, as a standalone report – from here. The report features additional information. It …
