Huawei’s NB-IoT technology has won the gold medal for new technologies and products at the 2016 World Internet of Things Exposition (WIOT) in Wuxi, China. Huawei says this makes it the first company to win a significant award in the narrowband cellular IoT field. “Huawei has conducted lab and field tests with a number of […]
Huawei’s Neul claims key role in NB-IoT
UK wireless technology company, Neul — acquired by Huawei in September 2014 – says the soon-to-be-ratified NB-IoT standard is largely based on its technology, which is being trialled in Australia by Melbourne’s South East Water utility for the monitoring of its sewage pumping systems – a service currently provided with NetComm gear and Telstra’s 3G-based […]
LPWAN – wide open field for wide area networking technology
If you’re not a close follower of what’s happening in the Internet of Things (IoT) this acronym—for low power wide area network—might be new to you, but it represents one of the most important components and one of the most hotly contested aspects of the Internet of Things – the radio communications technology that ‘things’ […]
Huawei buys and partners up for IoT
Chinese communications equipment manufacturer Huawei has risen rapidly from relative obscurity to become a first ranked player in the global telecoms infrastructure market so it should come as no surprise that it is aiming to be lead player in the Internet of Things. Its acquisition of Neul last September has now been followed by a […]
Sigfox scores $US115m investment for global IoT network
French startup Sigfox – which is planning to roll out its own global radio network dedicated to connecting the Internet of Things – has raised $US115 million from seven heavyweight investors: Air Liquide, Eutelsat, NTT Docomo, SK Telecom, and Telefónica. Today the Sigfox network covers France, Spain, the Netherlands and 10 of the UK’s larger […]
