Day two of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona saw another number of IoT related announcements. Nokia announced NB-IoT trials with Vodafone, and Ericsson with Verizon. Sigfox announced two new customers Nokia, Intel and Vodafone demo NB-IoT Nokia demonstrated NB-IoT technology at Mobile World Congress in collaboration with Intel and Vodafone, “marking a major milestone in the […]
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 […]
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. […]
IBM joins Open Interconnect Consortium
After a shaky start Intel-originated IoT standards body, the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) appears to be gathering momentum announcing eight new members, the most of significant of which is IBM. However, the OIC faces a rival IoT standardisation body backed by Microsoft, LG, Qualcomm and other big names. The OIC was founded by Intel, Broadcom […]
iiNet joins the AllSeen Alliance
iiNet has become the first Australian ISP to join the AllSeen Alliance, which claims to be the largest open source effort to advance the Internet of Everything. The Alliance also announced a number of other new members, taking its total membership to more than 120. The new members are: Dawon, Golgi, Helium, Honeywell, Lumen Cache, […]
