The Broadband Forum is making a push for its TR-069 smart home communications standard to be widely adopted in the IoT and M2M space. it is citing a study from Ovum saying it “shows that service providers across the world are relying on [TR-069’s] versatility and reliability to support them in delivering IoT and M2M […]
ITU sets up IoT Study Group for smart cities
ITU sets up IoT Study Group for smart cities The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has established a new ITU-T Study Group to address the standardisation requirements of IoT technologies, with an initial focus on IoT applications in smart cities. According to the ITU, the new group, ITU-T Study Group 20: IoT and its applications, including […]
Ericsson demos 5G innovation for IoT
Ericsson has announced a 5G air interface initiative that it says will improve reliability and performance and address IoT and ‘Internet of Skills’ applications, as well as catering for the growing smartphone population. In what it says is an industry first Ericsson is demonstrating “new advanced multipoint connectivity with distributed MIMO” that “connects 5G mobile […]
TechIPm launches database of wireless IoT patents
TechIPm – a research and consulting company specialising in strategy for technology and intellectual property monetisation and management – has added a database of wireless IoT patents to its offerings. It says they are key to wireless connectivity standards for IoT. According to TechIPm, the database can be used for many diverse purposes in strategic […]
Happy IoT Day – April 9
April 9 marks the fifth Internet of Things Day, the brainchild of the IoT Council and IoT tracking organisation Postscapes. It is billed as “an open invitation to the Internet of Things Community to participate in an event, host a hackathon, or just share a beer/coffee with a friend or fellow collaborator focused around the […]
Cisco backs Guardian’s IoT coverage
The Guardian Media Network has launched a new project that focus on the key issues surrounding the Internet of Things. In an email the Guardian said: “Today marks the launch of a new project on the Media Network that focuses on the key issues surrounding the internet of things. Our connected world series looks at the […]
Wireless IoT Forum to promote wireless IoT standards
A new body, the Wireless IoT Forum, has been launched to “support and promote the deployment of the Internet of Things worldwide …[and] to drive the widespread adoption of wireless wide-area networking technologies in both licensed and unlicensed spectrum.” The Forum says it will work with key stakeholders from across the value chain to agree […]
IBM to pump $US3 billion into IoT
IBM says it will invest $US3 billion over the next four years to establish a new Internet of Things (IoT) unit, and that it is building a cloud-based open platform designed to help clients and ecosystem partners build IoT solutions. IBM says its IoT push will build on “pioneering work in smarter planet and smarter […]
First fruits of Cisco’s Berlin IoE Innovation Centre
Cisco has unveiled the first product to come out of its Berlin Internet of Everything Innovation Centre, an entity similar to the one being set up by Cisco in Australia. The product – now commercially available – is an asset management solution that monitors and controls distributed infrastructure over the Internet. It was developed in […]
Bouygues to set up 500 town LoRaWAN IoT network
French telco Bouygues Telecom is to launch, in June, in Issy-les-Moulineaux, a part of Paris, a low power wide area radio network, based on LoRaWAN technology for connection of the Internet of Things. The network will only over parts of Paris at launch, but Bouygues says it plans to extend coverage to 500 towns by […]
