The GSMA and EY (Ernst & Young) have both released reports into the Chinese M2M market predicting enormous growth, fuelled by very active Government support. The GSMA report, Mobile Operators and Digital Transformation, produced in conjunction with The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), said the market would reach one billion connections by […]
IIC journal details disruptive power of industrial IoT
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) — which, along with Industrie 4.0 is developing the framework for the Industrial Internet of Things — has published the second edition of its Journal of Innovation, a biannual publication written by IIC members, featuring articles about “Industrial Internet technologies and services that are disrupting the global economy.” The theme […]
u-blox claims first NB-IoT module
u-blox says the module is designed for use in applications such as smart buildings and cities, utilities metering, white goods, asset tracking and agricultural and environmental monitoring and that availability is “forthcoming”, but has not given a date. It says the module will operate for between 10 and 20 years from a single-cell primary battery. […]
Energy giant Engie to deploy C3 IoT platform globally
Global energy and energy services company, Engie, has selected the C3 IoT Platform and applications as the foundation for an enterprise-wide plan to implement elastic cloud computing, big data, analytics, machine learning and IoT. C3 IoT claims to provide a full-stack IoT development platform (PaaS) that enables the rapid design, development, and deployment of even […]
Samsung bets big on ‘Human-Centred IoT’
Samsung Electronics has unveiled plans to invest $US1.2b on R&D in the US over the next four years into what it calls ‘Human-Centred IoT’ and, jointly with Intel, has announced a ‘National IoT Strategy Dialogue’ for the US. The Dialogue, to be hosted by the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), will, Samsung said, “design a […]
Claimed first demo of open end-to-end industrial IoT ecosystem
Three IoT companies — Advantech B+B SmartWorx, Connect2 Systems, DevicePilot — have demonstrated what they say is the first end-to-end IoT ecosystem with re-usable infrastructure and open industry standards for industrial and commercial applications at scale. Their system supports remote monitoring and management of industrial ultra-low power IoT sensor devices using constrained wireless networks and […]
GSA tips 20 NB-IoT networks by 2017
The Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) is tipping NB-IoT – one of several variants of 3GPP cellular standards developed for IoT and M2M applications – to become the dominant cellular technology for IoT applications, with 20 commercial networks in operation by 2020. The GSA has published a white paper The Evolution to Narrow Band Internet […]
Bullguard: security check your smart home, or your smart self
Internet security vendor Bullguard has introduced the Bullguard IoT Scanner – a web-based application for consumers that reveals connected devices that could be vulnerable to hackers. According to Bulllguard, its IoT Scanner allows anyone to quickly scan to see if their smart devices or network are accessible to hackers. If a user’s smart device is flagged […]
TIA puts is IoT views to US Government
The US Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) has joined the debate around IoT with a submission setting out its recommendations on what the US Government should do to promote IoT development, and calling for global co-ordination of technology and policy issues. The TIA document calls on the US Government to “adopt policies that incentivise research and […]
Cisco and IBM take Watson IoT to the edge
Cisco and IBM are to collaborate to deploy IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence technology at the edge of IoT networks to provide analysis and insights into IoT generated data. IBM and Cisco say they have joined forces to offer a new way to produce immediate, actionable insight at the point of data collection for companies operating […]
