JTC – the Singapore Government agency responsible for the planning and development of industrial infrastructure — and global engineering company ST Engineering have signed a MoU for the design, development and deployment of an open digital platform for the Punggol Digital District (PDD) that, they say, will transform user experiences and district-wide services. PDD […]
Huawei gets closer to SAP to exploit IoT opportunities
Huawei has announced plans to expand its existing collaboration with SAP on the SAP HANA platform saying it will enable both companies to explore new opportunities in Asia Pacific and Japan in big data and analytics, smart city, safe city, IoT and cloud. Huawei says it has a long-standing partnership with SAP around the SAP […]
FTTH Council Asia-Pacific to focus on smart cities
The FTTH Council Asia-Pacific has flagged smart cities along with the building of digital economies as new areas of focus and has set up a smart cities committee headed by Stephen G Foster, Managing Director of Asia Pacific with UK based Emtelle, a manufacturer of blown fibre and ducted network system. William Hamilton CEO of […]
Thinxtra taking Sigfox to Asia
Thinxtra, the Sigfox licensee for Australia and New Zealand is widening its horizons, announcing plans to rollout a Sigfox network in Hong Kong, and unveiling plans for networks in several more Asian countries in 2017. The move into Hong Kong appears to give it a headstart on rival LPWAN technology, LoRaWAN. So far as IoTAustralia […]
Huawei gets gold for NB-IoT
Huawei’s NB-IoT technology has won the gold medal for new technologies and products at the 2016 World Internet of Things Exposition (WIOT) in Wuxi, China. Huawei says this makes it the first company to win a significant award in the narrowband cellular IoT field. “Huawei has conducted lab and field tests with a number of […]
Johnson Controls promises to transform field servicing
Johnson Controls has introduced into Asia Pacific what it says is a transformational program that will use cloud-based services, mobility tools and data analytics to increase service technicians’ productivity by more than 10 percent and lower equipment maintenance and repair costs. The company says its cloud-based field mobility productivity tools and connected services will give […]
LoRa Alliance to hold first Asian meeting
The LoRa Alliance is bringing its all members meeting and open house to Asia for the first time. It will be held in Seoul from 11-13 October to coincide with IoT Week Korea, and will be hosted by SK Telecom, which operates a nationwide LoRaWAN network in Korea, and sponsored by Actility, a global IoT […]
Sigfox set to launch in Singapore
Global energy company, Engie in partnership with startup IoT network operator, UnaBiz, is to deploy a Sigfox low powered wide area network for IoT in Singapore. Singapore-wide coverage is expected by early 2017. In 2015, Engie acquired a minority stake in Sigfox and established Engie M2M to act as the exclusive national Sigfox network operator […]
Xped shifts focus to US with key appointments
Xped was founded in Adelaide and still maintains all R&D there. Earlier this year it made a backdoor listing on the ASX through former geothermal exploration company Raya Group, of whick Lekkas was chairman. Xped has developed technology that can be incorporated into a wide range of equipment that then enables the equipment to be […]
Telstra picks Icontrol for smart home offering
John Chambers, executive director home and premium services at Telstra, said the platform would connect a range of devices through an app. It will have its first public display at the Technology and Gadget Expo on 25-26 June at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. In a press release Telstra said: “The Telstra Smart Home […]
