Jasper announced partnerships with Post Luxembourg and Telular, Sigfox got a gong for mobile IoT innovation, Wedge Networks offered security as a service for IoT, and Ooredoo expanded its M2M offerings. Sigfox wins best mobile IoT innovation award Sigfox has won the award for the ‘Best Mobile Innovation for Internet of Things’ at Mobile World […]
MWC day two brings more IoT news
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 […]
Cellular vs LPWAN: the battle heats up
Several announcements and reports coinciding with the CES show in Las Vegas have thrown the spotlight on the intensifying competition between cellular and low powered wide area network technologies for the IoT market. These include: Announcement for Ericsson of “the ICT industry’s first complete cellular low-power wide-area offering, with backing from leading operator AT&T.” A […]
LPWAN v cellular: the jury is still out
French mobile operator, Orange, has fleshed out its plans for a nationwide LoRaWAN network, first revealed in September, provoking a bit of a put-down from Mobile World Live, the news organ of the GSMA. That was not such a good idea: it serves only to flag the fact that the mobile industry sees LPWAN as […]
Beware of vendors spruiking IoT standards
Nokia has issued a press release claiming some initiative in promoting IoT standards. Close scrutiny reveals just what Nokia is on about. The press release is headed “Nokia Networks kick-starts industry collaboration to enable the programmable world.” In reality, when you drill down, there’s not a lot of kicking happening, but it’s very goal-directed. The […]
Mobile operators muscle in on low power wide area wireless for IoT
The GSMA — which represent almost 800 mobile network operators and more than 250 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem — has set up a ‘Mobile IoT Initiative’ aimed at standardising, in licenced spectrum, low power wide area wireless technologies designed specifically for connecting the Internet of Things. The new group is backed by 26 […]
Startup planning Australian LoRaWan network
Australian startup company National Narrowband Network Communications is planning a dedicated low power wide area wireless network based on the LoRaWan standard for connecting IoT devices. The Australian LoRaWan network would be open to any organisation to use for its own IoT applications and devices and the company is looking to partner with Australia’s Government […]
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’ […]
Standards and emerging IoT technologies: who will win?
UK based research firm, FC Business Intelligence has published a study has published a study Standards and Emerging Technologies in IoT: Can proprietary technologies succeed? It features the views of four industry figures, Professor William Webb, Founder, Weightless Sig; Jonathan Wiggin, CEO of NWave; Professor Mischa Dohler, Professor in Wireless Communications, Kings College; Thomas Nicholls, […]
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 […]
