Telstra Wholesale has released a report commissioned from the Economist Intelligence Unit into the M2M market in Australia saying it reveals slow uptake of M2M in Australia. The report Land of Sweeping Change: Powering Australian Business Towards A Connected Future “assesses the landscape for M2M in Australia, in particular existing ‘gaps’ between the view of […]
NetComm Wireless
NetComm Wireless Limited (ASX: NTC) is a leading developer of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) devices and solutions globally. The company provides 3G, 4G and rural broadband new generation fixed-wireless devices that underpin an increasingly connected world. Leading telecommunications carriers, core network providers and system integrators utilise NetComm Wireless’ solutions to optimise network performance and to support their […]
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 […]
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 […]
Indosat teams with Ericsson to offer M2M platform in Indonesia
Indonesian mobile operator, Indosat, and Ericsson have launched a cloud-based Machine-to-Machine (M2M) platform in Indonesia, the Ericsson Device Connection Platform (DCP). Indosat is a subsidiary of Qatar based Ooredoo and is the first member of Ooredoo Group to launch the platform. Ooredoo says its companies in Qatar, Algeria and Tunisia are scheduled to follow later […]
Beecham Research slams hyped-up multi-billion M2M connections forecasts
M2M market analyst firm, Beecham Research, has published a report ‘Global M2M Connectivity and Services Forecast’ (price $US2600) in which it predicts that the number of cellular M2M connections worldwide will increase from 172 million in 2013 to one billion by 2020, but with a note of caution in the face of what it says […]
Jasper and China Unicom form IoT partnership
Jasper, a global Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, has formed an IoT partnership with China Unicom to provide IoT services for enterprise customers in China. China Unicom will offer a global platform through which companies can launch, manage and monetize IoT service businesses throughout China. According to Jasper, its Control Center platform will provide […]
NetComm Wireless intros Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) protocol device
NetComm Wireless (ASX: NTC) has introduced an M2M ‘enabler’ using the Open Mobile Alliance’s (OMA) Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) protocol saying it “addresses a significantly larger global M2M market by standardising processes for simple and economical remote management between M2M devices and their management platforms.” LWM2M is a new technical standard for remote management of m2m […]
Bridge Alliance choose Ericsson for single SIM multinational M2M
Bridge Alliance, an alliance of 36 mobile operators from Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, has chosen to deploy the Ericsson Device Connectivity Platform (DCP) multi-domestic solution for the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling any original equipment manufacturer (OEM), enterprise or service provider to deploy IoT solutions across multiple countries. According to Ericsson, “With Ericsson DCP […]
M2M deployments similar in different verticals
The London-based International M2M Council (IMC) has undertaken what it says “could be the largest quantitative study ever undertaken to understand technology buying patterns for the Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine Communications.” More than 5,000 OEMs and enterprise users that deploy connected devices participated. According to the IMC, “Just two of the surprising results from […]
