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IoT networking company Sigfox has big plans for 2019. Every IoT company does, of course, but the French firm has set a target to secure 'global' coverage by setting up in China, India, and Russia, finally, and plugging three major gaps in its existing...

Sigfox said that the smart tag is now being deployed to 600 tobacco retailers in the Bouches-du-Rhône area with a national rollout planned at a later stage   French IoT specialist Sigfox, together with Follower Product (FP) and Philip Morris France, unveiled what it claims is the...

Sigfox is looking to add a half a dozen territories to its global footprint by the end of this year, and pass the 70-mark by the end of next. Its top priority in 2019 is to open operations in China, India, and Russia, as...

  WNDUK, in partnership with French IoT specialist Sigfox, aims to reach 2,000 base stations in the coming months   U.K. firm WNDUK has installed 1,000 base station for the provision of its IoT service in partnership with French IoT provider Sigfox. The U.K firm said that this...

Network monitoring company Paessler is collaborating with internet of things network company Sigfox to offer IoT monitoring and visualization services for devices connected to Sigfox's low-power wide-area network. Paessler's PRTG Network Monitor for IoT solutions will provide IoT monitoring and visualization of both functionality and measurement...

Sigfox nabs ex-Nokia man to head up US sales Sigfox has appointed former Nokia man Murray Kawchuk as vice president of sales for its US business. Kawchuk will lead the company’s sales, engineering and IoT teams, develop partnerships with device makers, system integrators, and other...

Cisco is making the business case for mobile operators to install 5G masts in rural regions based on connecting livestock, rather than people. The company, leading a network of 29 organisations in the UK, is confident its project will produce a ‘hard’ ROI for service...

  The French firm said it is targeting growth opportunities in the agribusiness market in Europe, the U.S. and Latin America   French internet of things connectivity provider Sigfox is targeting the agriculture vertical market as one of the sectors with the highest growth potential, Alessandro Cremonini,...

Cellular 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 displace non-cellular LPWA solutions, mostly based on LoRa and Sigfox, as the principle connectivity technologies...

  Sigfox said it will focus on Russia, China and India to boost growth next year   French internet of things connectivity provider Sigfox is looking to expand its operations in the U.S. market, with special focus on a number of key verticals, Franck Siegel, Sigfox’s chief...

Investor confidence in the burgeoning industrial ‘internet-of-things’ (IIoT) market is up, reckon industry commentators. A slew of enterprise funds and venture capital has been staked on the sector’s growth in recent months, as vendors have got a better grasp of the technology and industrialists have...

Sigfox 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 KDDI and French electric utility ENGIE. Further investments came from angel investors in Singapore, as...

Semtech’s LoRa technology is being used by Quantified Ag, whose devices are implemented in feedlots in the U.S. and Australia   Semtech said that Quantified Ag, a company specializing in internet of things-based cattle tracking and cattle health solutions, has implemented Semtech’s LoRa devices and wireless...

Low-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, which 3G and 4G based alarm systems struggle to cover. Rural crime is a growing...

  The IoT-based fleet management solution was initially launched in France and will also be available in other European countries in the future   French oil firm Total has joined forces with compatriot IoT specialist Sigfox to deploy a solution designed to optimize rolling stock and help...

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 Analysys Mason forecasts LPWA technologies will generate $5 billion globally in connectivity revenue by 2025....

The 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 design is the ultimate barrier to adoption of licensed low-power wider-area (LPWA) technologies like narrowband...

AT&T will go after the broad industrial ‘internet-of-things’ (IIoT) market with an expanded connectivity portfolio as it unfolds its new narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) network across the US and Mexico through 2019. “We’re just getting started on unlocking the promise of the industrial internet of things for...

UK tech incubator Digital Catapult has meshed its Things Connected LoRaWAN network in with the UK footprint of Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN project The Things Network (TTN). The result is the UK’s largest free-to-use low-power wide-area (LPWA) network deployment and innovation community, according to its architects. UK...

US 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 for NB-IoT will run in parallel with its existing LTE-M network. AT&T said the...

The 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 five years. By 2023, NB-IoT and LTE-M will capture more than 55 per cent...

Sigfox has struck a deal with mapping company HERE to create a global internet-of-things (IoT) location service for the supply chain and logistics industry. The deal will see Sigfox’s low-power wide-area (LPWA) network and geolocation engine supplemented Wi-Fi hotspot coverage from Dutch firm HERE, owned...

Google Cloud has joined the LoRa Alliance as a sponsor member. Its input will help LoRaWAN operators glean deeper insights from data analytics running in their low-power wide-area (LPWA) ‘internet of things’ (IoT) networks, said the LoRa Alliance. Donna Moore, chief executive of the LoRa...

  Sigfox's new tracking solution provides freighters with a real-time geolocation service of their containers   French tire manufacturer Michelin, together with compatriot IoT connectivity provider Sigfox and Argon Consulting, has launched a new solution for tracking sea-freight containers. Michelin, which has actively participated in the development of...