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Sigfox owner Unabiz and LoRa group The Things Industries make deal on ‘unified LPWAN’

Sigfox-parent UnaBiz and LoRaWAN group The Things Industries (TTI) – two companies that appear to be culturally aligned, albeit differently rooted in IoT; which appear to speak the same language, albeit from different sides of the low-power wide-area (LPWA) divide – have struck a...

Soracom and Unabiz release LTE-M smart button “for any purpose”

Tokyo-based KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom and Singapore-based IoT development house Unabiz have jointly developed and launched a new LTE-M smart ‘button’ for “dozens of unique IoT use cases”. The pair, which have collaborated previously on custom hardware and connectivity projects for specific customers,...

Unabiz ties-up with iWire on Sigfox (plus any-LPWAN) IoT push in MEA region

Dubai-based IoT network and solutions provider iWire Global, at one time in the running to buy Sigfox, has signed a regional collaboration and development deal with Singapore-based IoT outfit Unabiz, which eventually won the race to buy Sigfox’s technology assets in France. The partnership...

French water company Sogedo signs 10-year IoT deal with Sigfox-owner Unabiz

French water distribution company Société de Gérance et de Distribution d'Eau (Sogedo) has signed a 10 year deal with Singapore-based IoT development house Unabiz, which owns the Sigfox IoT network technology, to enhance water conservation and management in France. Sogedo will deploy more residential...

IoT tracking in the supply chain industry – the lowest start and the biggest finish?

Note, this is the foreword from a new report on IoT tracking in the supply chain industry; the report is linked here and (repeatedly) in the article below – and also in the images at the bottom. The title of this piece might have...

“We did what we said” – UnaBiz on six months of Sigfox, plus new funds, big plans

Singapore-based UnaBiz, owner of the Sigfox technology, has completed a Series B funding extension worth $25 million, to take its total Series B investment, initially pegged at $25 million in late 2021, to over $50 million. The new funding comes from existing investors, led...

‘Don’t talk tech just because you don’t get the vertical’ – the hardest industry of all

There was a good panel session, yesterday (November 29; see cover image, available on-demand), on IoT tracking in the supply chain, which brought insightful content and commentary from leading IoT outfits DeltaTrak, Telit, and Unabiz, plus from analyst house ABI Research. But even with...

Keg tracking with Konvoy – how the beer industry got buzzed on IoT

Australian outfit Konvoy Group started three years ago, in the summer of 2019, as a keg rental business, offering logistics support to craft brewers in its home country. It has, in the meantime, expanded its services portfolio, launched in international markets, and signed with...

Soracom claims five million IoT connections (a million in 2022), applies to list on TSE

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has claimed its five-millionth IoT connection, citing strong uptake in the energy, retail, healthcare, agriculture, and consumer electronics industries. The figure represents an advance of one million global connections in less than a year; the firm passed four million,...

Dubai Electric and Water Authority appoints Sigfox-owner Unabiz for ‘unified LPWAN’

Singapore-based Unabiz, owner of Sigfox, has entered the United Arab Emirates (UAE) through a deal with InfraX, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of public service infrastructure company Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA). Unabiz is to make “custom designed IoT solutions”...

Sigfox operator Heliot joins MIOTY Alliance – to bring ‘unified LPWAN’ a step closer

Heliot Europe, the biggest Sigfox operator in Europe, has joined the MIOTY Alliance, the group promoting MIOTY as an alternative to low-power IoT technologies like Sigfox, as well as LoRaWAN and NB-IoT. The move, which might once have been considered by the Sigfox crowd...

Behind the green curtain – Semtech reveals magic to merge cellular and non-cellular IoT

Note, this article is continued from a previous entry, available here.  So what happens behind the ‘green curtain’, exactly? What is the trick that non-cellular IoT leader Semtech is looking to pull off with its purchase of cellular IoT maker Sierra Wireless? Or rather, how...

Sigfox back from the dead in South Africa – after customers rally, investors emerge

Sigfox is back from the dead in South Africa, after local Sigfox operator SqwidNet was canned a year ago by parent company Community Investment Ventures Holdings (CIVH) because of a lack of demand. This week, following Sigfox’s rescue by Unabiz in France and “extensive...

‘Sigfox is the future Unabiz has to avoid’ – Unabiz seeks to unite broken IoT market

Philippe Chiu has been sleeping for three hours a night, he says, for six months. He has taken to power-napping, like he is “at college again”, he says. “Twenty minutes gets you three hours. And it works – because it is good sleep. So,...

Soracom taps IDEMIA to bundle low-power eSIMs for NB-IoT and LTE-M apps

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom has announced a deal with France-based outfit IDEMIA, a supplier of identity-related security services, to offer enterprise customers an optimised low-power embedded SIM (eSIM) with its power-constrained cellular IoT products in North America and Europe. IDEMIA’s eSIM proposition, called DAKOTA...

Unabiz supplies Finland-made Sigfox air quality sensors to Singapore care homes

Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities (THKMC), a voluntary welfare organisation in Singapore, has deployed a number of air quality sensors from IoT provider Unabiz, via Finnish Sigfox operator Connected Finland, at two care homes in Singapore following a corporate social responsibility (CSR) assessment to...

Sigfox brand retained; everything else subsumed into expanding UnaBiz family

The UnaBiz takeover of Sigfox has been rubber stamped in letterheads, employment contracts, marketing outreach, and a concerted push on social media activity; “starting July, SIGFOX (sic) is now a UnaBiz Technology,” wrote Henri Bong, co-founder at Singapore-based UnaBiz, and one half of the...

New Sigfox parent claims million-milestone and ready-supply for Sigfox 2.0 (‘Unabiz 0G’)

The first shot of blue sky in the murky Sigfox firmament? Maybe, just – even despite mutterings of discontent from the old guard and warnings of difficulty for the new regime. A press announcement, proclaiming the “first one-millionth” Sigfox tracker for European postal services,...

An identity crisis, a catch-22, a €3.3m problem? What’s in the Unabiz/Sigfox in-tray?

It has been a month since Unabiz was declared the new owner of IoT tech provider and network operator Sigfox. And it has been a couple of weeks (such is the workload) since Enterprise IoT Insights was passed a shareholders’ note from the Sigfox...

French LoRa/Sigfox ag-tech startup Sencrop bags $18m to conquer the US

France-based precision agriculture startup Sencrop has raised $18 million in Series B funding, led by Israeli venture capital firm JVP. Sencrop, founded in 2016, headquartered in Lille, claims to be Europe’s leading provider of “field-connected solutions”, with 20,000 farmers in 20 countries, mainly in...

KDDI-owned Soracom expands IoT partner programme into Europe, Americas

KDDI-owned IoT connectivity provider Soracom, an investor in and collaborator with new Sigfox-owner UnaBiz, has expanded its partner network into the Americas and Europe, it has said, including via its UnaBiz partnership. The firm said its partner ranks have swollen to 800 companies with...

UnaBiz appointed as new owner of Sigfox SA and Sigfox France SAS 

Singapore-based UnaBiz is the new owner of France-based ultra-narrowband IoT company Sigfox, the Commercial Court of Toulouse confirmed today. UnaBiz has acquired Sigfox SA, the primary technology company, and Sigfox France SAS, its network operator subsidiary in France. The deal, which takes Sigfox out...

SoftBank Robotics partners with UnaBiz to integrate IoT sensors, robotics

This alliance is part of SoftBank Robotics’ roadmap to implement an IoT system onto a unified smart facility management platform   SoftBank Robotics Group (SBRG) has announced a partnership with IoT provider UnaBiz, with the aim of integrating IoT sensors and robotics in building management and...

Sigfox sale gets delayed to April 21 – ‘a week to convince the government,’ says UnaBiz

The Commercial Court of Toulouse in France has delayed its decision on the sale of Sigfox until April 21. The decision, originally scheduled for today (April 14), gives Singapore-based UnaBiz, the long-time front-runner to buy ailing IoT firm, another week to appeal against the...