The ETSI SmartM2M technical committee has released three new specifications for: smart cities; industry and manufacturing; smart agriculture and food chain domains saying they will enable interoperability and therefore contribute to the development of the global digital market. They are the latest in a series of Smart Applications Reference ontology (SAREF) specifications and follow release […]
Thread wireless mesh protocol gets an upgrade
Thread Group — the multivendor body set up to promote a low-power wireless mesh networking protocol for extremely low power consumption and low latency, based on the IEEE 802.15.4 radio standard — has announced a new version of its protocol, Thread 1.2 that it says enhances power, security and scalability. According to Thread Group, Thread […]
Lacuna promises direct-to-satellite LoRaWAN
Lacuna Space says it has successfully tested direct communication between a LoRaWAN device on the ground and a satellite-based LoRaWAN gateway, and aims to launch a fleet of satellites that will provide global LoRaWAN coverage. The company says it has been collaborating with Semtech Corporation — the inventor of LoRaWAN — over the past two […]
Sony debuts module for proprietary ELTRES IoT wireless
Sony has launched a module supporting its proprietary ELTRES wireless communications technology for IoT. ELTRES, which operates in the 900MHz band is claimed to have a range of up to 100kms, and able to support communication from a fast moving vehicle. It supports uplink-only communications at a rate of 80bps, delivering a 128 bit payload […]
AWS providing global satellite links for Myriota
Australian IoT satellite operator Myriota has been named as one of the first customers of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) AWS Ground Station, a service that enables satellites to be controlled from AWS and data from satellites to be downloaded into AWS Global Infrastructure Regions using a network of ground station antennas around the world. Other […]
Microsoft debuts seamless IoT device connection to Azure
Microsoft has launched, at its Build developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft IoT Plug and Play for its Azure cloud service saying it offers an open modelling language that enables users to connect IoT devices to the cloud seamlessly. The executive vice president of Microsoft Azure, Jason Zander, told a press conference in Sydney ahead of […]
UK plans IoT security legislation, US examines options
The UK Government has announced plans for legislation that would require greater security to be built into IoT devices. The US Government is looking at legislation versus self-regulation. The UK’s Minister for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. Margot James, announced the plans in a press release on 1 May. She said the move would ensure […]
HomeGrid Forum touts ‘optical’ G.Hn for smart homes and cities
The HomeGrid Forum says visible light communication (VLC) – light beams modulated according to its G.Hn standard is set to be the next major innovation in realising the full potential of both the smart home and the smart city. The G.hn standard is already used for communication over powerline, coax, twisted pair and plastic optical […]
Michigan Uni puts RFID on steroids, with IDAct
The University of Michigan has developed technology that enhances the functionality of RFID enabling tags to report movement and more. A standard RFID tag absorbs electromagnetic energy from the reader and uses this to broadcast its identity to the reader enabling the reader to record the presence of the tag but nothing more. The University […]
Software AG accelerates IoT analytics with Apama
Software AG has launched Apama Analytics Builder, saying it radically reduces the time taken to design, develop and deploy analytics for IoT application, and claiming it to be “a huge advance in self-service analytics for IoT.” According to Software AG, Apama Analytics Builder “gives engineers and other domain experts working on the IoT edge a […]
