BROWSING: The Things Conference
Dracula sucks light out of dark – passive IoT will drive massive IoT, claims LoRa crowd
Some of the best ideas in IoT… Scratch that; some of the most important innovations in the whole tech game… Actually, scratch all of that; if everything in the end is going to be connected in an internet-of-things (whatever that is), then some of...
‘This is not convergence’ – divergence, Darwinism and the death of IoT Inc
The big message from the big massacre in ‘massive’ IoT – which has seen high-takes vendors written-down and high-stakes gamblers written-off – is that it is not a massacre at all. It is a general abandonment; a yellow-bellied resignation by the self-appointed commanders in...
IIoT vs IoT4I* (5G-IoT vs LPWA-IoT) – what’s the difference, why everything has a place
A helpful snapshot of the developing IoT market, from a presentation at The Things Conference in Amsterdam a couple of weeks back; Paul Pinault, vice president of platform and market strategy at France-based Braincube, took to the stage to draw interesting, possibly important, distinction...
Unsuccessful deployments in IoT – a furore about failure c/o NB-IoT, Sigfox, Helium (LoRaWAN)
This is a rehash of a social media exchange last week, somewhere in a far-off echo chamber on LinkedIn, following a post by Enterprise IoT Insights about unsuccessful IoT deployments – which riffed on a slide from Canada-based LoRaWAN solution provider TEKTELIC, shared during...
“Enough tinkering; time to deliver” – IoT gets “no-nonsense” ahead of big TTN/TTI show
Next week – in case you’ve been trapped under a heavy object, away from the business pages on social media – is The Things Conference, the annual LoRaWAN shindig in Amsterdam, hosted by the TTN/TTI Things collective. The show (September 22-23) has built a...
730,360 kilometres, 2.44 seconds – scientists bounce LoRa message off the Moon
A team of scientists in Europe has bounced a LoRa message off the Moon. The feat sets a new distance record of 730,360 kilometres for the distance travelled by a LoRa-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT message. It was also the first time a data...
Once upon a time in the (New) West – how LoRa is looking to strike gold on the IoT trail
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘IoT is not about LoRa vs Sigfox anymore; it is about Design Process X vs Design Process Y’. Click here to see the previous instalment.
Picking up the thread again, we hear that the cost-sensitive...
‘Vulnerability makes us strong’ – team LoRa urged to embrace paranoia of open IoT
Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN group The Things Network (TTN) has instructed the IoT community at large to draw strength, as a collective working with open technologies, from its apparent weaknesses as a "vulnerable" loose-knit faction locked in innovation projects.
Wienke Giezeman, co-founder and chief executive at TTN,...
5G, 0G, all these Gs? Gee-eze – the IoT pie is bigger than that, says LoRaWAN champ
An intro-video plays as the founders of The Things Network (TTN), take to the stage at their annual LoRaWAN bash in Amsterdam. A Hollywood-style voiceover crows about big-sounding tech - something about 5G and 0G, and all the other Gs – before the baritone...
LoRaWAN enters 2.4 GHz – plus new space race, network sharing, embedded security
LoRaWAN will work in the 2.4 GHz spectrum band, also occupied by Wi-Fi and Bluetooth systems, to enable LoRaWAN-based IoT devices to work globally at the same frequency for the first time, without needing to switch between sub-GHz bands in roaming.
That is the proposal,...