PsiKick, a US startup that has developed batteryless wireless technology for IoT applications, makes the point that, if there are one trillion things connected to the internet somebody will have to be changing batteries 275 million times every day. Mathematically that might be correct, but it’s rather misleading: many of those trillion things will be passive sensors […]
IoT Talent Consortium aims to train one million IoTers by 2020
The IoT Talent Consortium, conceived at Cisco’s IoT World Forum in 2014 with the aim of boosting the IT talent pool and establishing formal qualifications for IoT skills, is gearing up for a formal launch early in 2016 with the aim of having a million learners by 2020. According to a membership presentation on its […]
HP Enterprise debuts edge computing devices for IoT
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has unveiled – at its Discover partner and customer event in the UK – its foray into the edge computing sector of the IoT market with the launch of its first edge computing platforms for IoT, the Edgeline System 10 and System 20. The products are the fruits of a partnership […]
Nokia and SK Telecom demo low powered LTE for IoT
Nokia says it has conducted the first trial in Korea of low powered LTE technology designed for IoT and for communication with devices that can run for a decade on a single battery. The over-the-air trial was conducted in a test bed in SK Telecom’s network technology R&D center, using Nokia’s Flexi Multiradio 10 base […]
IoT standards consolidate: Open Interconnect Consortium swallows UPnP Forum
Intel-originated IoT standards body, the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC), is to acquire “substantially all of the assets” of smart home standards body, the UPnP Forum and will offer membership to UPnP Forum members, a move that it says will lead to increased alignment on IoT standards. The OIC said there must be an accepted common […]
Cisco and Princeton Uni form Open Fog Consortium
Cisco has formed the – ozymoronically named – Open Fog Consortium to garner wider support for its version of edge computing as applied to IoT networks. Founding members are ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and Princeton University, through the Princeton University Edge Laboratory. Helter Antunes, senior director of Cisco’s Corporate Strategic Innovations Group, has been […]
AllSeen Alliance gathers momentum with 13 new members
The AllSeen Alliance, a cross-industry collaboration set up to to advance IoT through an open source software project, the AllJoyn Framework, has signed up 13 new members, many from the Asia-Pacific region. The announcement comes ahead of the annual AllSeen Alliance Summit, to be held in Seattle, 19-21 October. AllJoyn is an API framework developed […]
Orange France goes for nationwide LoRa network
Orange, one of the world’s largest telcos with 159 million mobile subscribers – about 25 million in France – has embraced the LoRa low powered wide area network technology for IoT with great enthusiasm, announcing plans for a nationwide network in France. The move comes at a time when the cellular industry has been working […]
Ericsson’s software upgrade strengthens cellular for IoT
Ericsson has made a number of enhancement to its cellular network software aimed at boosting the role of cellular networks in the provision of connectivity for IoT. The enhancements, incorporated in release 16B of Ericsson’s software, are designed to improve support for low complexity, low cost IoT devices with extended battery life, and to improve […]
AllSeen Alliance unveils smart home standard interface
The AllSeen Alliance has unveiled a smart home standard interface for controlling and monitoring smart appliances and entertainment devices in the home, but without the participation of Google and Apple, both of which are pushing their own interface. Also absent was Samsung, which has stressed openness as a key feature of its smart home products. […]
