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 […]
Long term support for Windows 10 IoT Core devices
Microsoft has made available a public preview of Windows 10 IoT Core Services. These services, announced in June at Computex 2018, are designed to help Microsoft partners provide long-term support and security for devices they supply that use the Windows 10 IoT Core, an edition of Windows 10 designed for use in small footprint, low-cost […]
Who are the real leaders in IoT?
Market research firm IoT Analytics produces a quarterly report ranking the top 20 IoT companies. Given how difficult it is to (a) define the IoT market and (b) corral a company’s IoT revenue/activities, that’s a pretty tall order. Nevertheless, it makes for interesting reading, and the company is unequivocal as to who the leaders of […]
Sigfox names APAC president, plans networks throughout Asia
France based IoT low-powered wide area network (LPWAN) developer, Sigfox, is ramping up its plans to roll out networks across Asia with the appointment of a president of Sigfox APAC, based in the company’s regional headquarters in Singapore. The appointee, Roswell Wolff, will “lead the company’s Asia-Pacific expansion and the deployment of the Sigfox global […]
IoT all the rage at Mobile World Congress
IoT announcements of all kinds emerged on the first day of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Here’s a summary of them. Singtel and Ericsson to trial NB-IoT Singtel and Ericsson has formd a partnership to ready Singtel’s LTE network to support the expected rapid growth of connected devices. The collaboration will start with a trial […]
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 […]
Hard hats and hard rides monitored by Azure IoT
With the presentation of a couple of interesting use cases at its Ignite conference on the Gold Coast last week, Microsoft is putting out some solid messages to support the capabilities of its recently released Azure IoT Suite. Construction company, Laing O’Rourke, is using the suite to gather and present data from an experimental ‘Smart […]
iYogi launches India’s first enterprise grade IoT platform
Indian company iYogi has launched what it claims to be India’s first enterprise grade IoT platform, the Digital Service Cloud Open IoT Platform (http://www.digitalservicecloud.com), based on Microsoft Azure. iYogi says innovators can use the platform to deploy, monitor and automatically manage their products across millions of end users, easily integrate their products with the growing […]
Microsoft impresses Ovum with Azure IoT Services
When Microsoft held a press briefing in Australia recently to promote its IoT expertise, I and others present were fairly unimpressed with what Microsoft presented as an IoT customer implementation. However after being briefed on Microsoft’s IoT strategy Ovum has come away lauding it, especially the just launched Azure IoT Services. Ovum analyst, Adrian Ho, […]
Integration key to tapping IoT’s potential, says Readify
Australian software company, Readify has staged a series of roadshows around Australia with Microsoft that, it says, were “seeking to demystify the Internet of Things (IoT) for business decisions makers.” According to Readify CTO, Mitch Denny, there are many devices deployed in Australian organisations that have the potential to produce useful and actionable data, but […]
