Sigfox, the developer of a low powered wide area network technology for IoT connectivity has introduced what it says is the world’s first, ultra-low cost IoT connectivity modules, with prices starting at $US3.0 in Asian and American markets and $US2.0 in European, Middle East and African markets. No reason was given for the 50 percent […]
Intel ups the ante with new IoT processors
Intel has announced a new range of processors designed for IoT applications, the Atom E3900 series, that represent a significant increase in performance and functionality over its current E3800 products. At launch almost 30 Intel customers have Atom E3900 products ready to ship and a further 50 are taking part in the early access program. […]
PTC teams with HPE to offer packaged edge computing for IoT
PTC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have teamed up to offer PTC’s ThingWorx IoT platform integrated with HPE’s Edgeline range of edge computing devices designed for IoT. The combinations are being demonstrated at the IoT Solutions World Congress from October 25 to October 27 in Barcelona. They say the result will be the availability of […]
Tractive taps Orange Business Services to track globe-trotting pets
Austrian company Tractive offers pet-mountable devices for tracking pets that have gone walkabout. Now it has signed an IoT connectivity services contract with Orange Business Services that will enable it to incorporate Orange’s global roaming SIMs into its products. Tractive was founded in 2012 and claims to operate in more than 80 countries. Its products […]
Industry giants GE & Bosh team for Industrial IoT/Industry 4.0
Two of the biggest players in Industrial IoT/Industry 4.0 — Bosch and GE – are to collaborate on open source IoT platform development and on common standards to help machines and devices understand each other. GE Digital and Bosch Software Innovations have signed a MoU to “further facilitate openness and growth of the Industrial Internet […]
Another LPWAN for IoT: Cambium Networks launches cnReach
Wireless network technology developer, Cambium Networks, has launched cnReach, billed as a narrowband radio for highly reliable and secure transmissions across long distances. The company says that, in conjunction with its other wireless networking products, cnReach enables it to offer technology for end-to-end communications across an IoT network that can be managed and monitored […]
Are you IoT ready? This widget will tell you.
The UK-based IoT M2M Council (IMC) has developed a web-based IoT Readiness Calculator that anyone contemplating an organisational IoT deployment will be able use to determine their level of IoT readiness. The was launched at the CTIA Super Mobility 2016 exhibition in Las Vegas. It asks users questions about their business requirements and about technical […]
A foggy IoT reference architecture
The OpenFog Consortium, initiated last year by Cisco to promote harmonisation in edge computing (aka fog computing) architecture for IoT networks, will release the first version of its reference architecture in September, ahead of its next members’ meeting scheduled for Austin, Texas September 27-28. OpenFog Consortium chair and senior director of Cisco’s Corporate Strategic Innovations […]
Particle’s “most widely-used” IoT platform now enterprise-grade
Particle, which already claims to be the most widely-used IoT platform, has launched Particle Cloud, billed as an enterprise version of its IoT platform, and has partnered with Google, Microsoft, IFTTT and a number of other data and analytics cloud platforms that can help customers generate insights from the massive quantities of data produced by […]
Bluetooth by the billions, driven by IoT
ABI Research is tipping a key role for Bluetooth in providing connectivity for IoT, at the expense of other technologies such as Thread, ZigBee, and Z-Wave. ABI Research says shipments of Bluetooth devices will increase by an average of half a billion per year to reach in excess of five billion annually by 2021. ABI […]
