Korean startup Ecube Labs has come up with a garbage bin that not only signals when it’s full, but delays that event by compacting its contents: all on solar power. The company has had pilot installations at Changi airport in Singapore, Seoul city, and the city of Roermond in the Netherlands. It exhibited its products […]
Sigfox names APAC president, plans networks throughout Asia
France based IoT low-powered wide area network (LPWAN) developer, Sigfox, is ramping up its plans to roll out networks across Asia with the appointment of a president of Sigfox APAC, based in the company’s regional headquarters in Singapore. The appointee, Roswell Wolff, will “lead the company’s Asia-Pacific expansion and the deployment of the Sigfox global […]
SK Telecom planning nationwide LoRaWAN network
Korean Telco SK Telecom has become the latest telco to announce plans for a nationwide low-powered wide area network based on the LoRaWAN technology. However its press release announcing the move is somewhat ambiguous. It says only that SKT is “building a nationwide Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) within this year,” and that “In July 2015, […]
Asian Open Data Alliance could boost IoT
Japan, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan are to form an “Asian Open Data Alliance” to increase government transparency and public participation, serve as the foundation for innovative services and create economic value. Open data initiatives are seen as critical to the success of IoT and an open data project for Australia was […]
Tata Communications plans India wide LoRaWAN network
Indian telco Tata Communications has become the latest major telco to jump on the LoRaWAN bandwagon, announcing plans for an India wide LoRaWAN network following successful trials in Mumbai and Delhi. Last month, France’s largest mobile operator, Orange announced plans for a nationwide LoRaWAN network and Telstra is dipping its toe in the water with […]
China Unicom gets into smart homes
In the latest example of major telcos getting into the IoT business, China Unicom has joined forces with US based chip maker, Sigma Designs and Zeewave to offer smart home services to Chinese consumers based on Zeewave’s Smart Home gateway. The partnership was announced at the 12th China International Small and Medium Enterprise Fair, where […]
Singapore joins ITU smart city trial
Singapore has joined the ITU’s two-year pilot project to evaluate the feasibility of the ITU’s key performance indicators for smart sustainable cities. The ITU aims to develop an internationally standardised set of of the indicators that can be used as the basis of a Global Smart Sustainable Cities Index. The pilot project will test and […]
IDC seeks Asia’s smartest city – with your help
IDC has set up a Smart City Evolution Index for Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) in what it says is “an effort to help establish the fundamental causes of the birth, evolution, and survival of key cities in the region.” The index will take into consideration inputs from IDC analysts across the region, public opinion through online […]
SK Telecom has joined the LoRa Alliance
The LoRawan low-powered wide area radio technology developed for connecting devices in the Internet of Things has received a substantial boost towards standardisation with the announcement that Korean telcom SK Telecom has joined the LoRa Alliance and will collaborate with other members to achieve the international standardisation of the technology. The company has also unveiled […]
iYogi launches India’s first enterprise grade IoT platform
Indian company iYogi has launched what it claims to be India’s first enterprise grade IoT platform, the Digital Service Cloud Open IoT Platform (http://www.digitalservicecloud.com), based on Microsoft Azure. iYogi says innovators can use the platform to deploy, monitor and automatically manage their products across millions of end users, easily integrate their products with the growing […]
