IoT Hot List March and April 2021 Get the inside track on who’s winning what IoT business
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| Vendor/Partner | Client, Country | Product/Service (Duration & Value) | Awarded | Source |
| Accenture and Ripjar | Royal Dutch Shell | Leverage Accenture’s risk expertise to configure Ripjar’s AI technology for analysis of Shell’s supply chain to screen for risks across the oil and gas company’s third-party supply chain transactions. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Autofleet | Keolis | Autofleet will provides its vehicle-as-a-service platform for Keolis autonomous electric shuttle project in Gothenburg, Sweden. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Avnet | qiio | Gobal distribution partnership enabling Avnet’s global customer base to access qiio’s edge devices and connectivity services. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Baidu | Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone, China | Won a bid to construct a 5G intelligent driving project in Chengdu, providing an intelligent transformation of transportation and urban management. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Baidu | China Huaneng Group | Deal to use Baidu’s capabilities in AI-powered infrastructure to help Huaneng closely integrate the digital economy with the energy and power industry. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Deutsche Telekom | Envision Digital | Alliance to deliver a charging technology for electric vehicles (EVs) in Germany, which enables drivers to charge their cars quickly at private parking spaces. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Eseye | Armis | Deal that enables organisations to deploy connected devices on any cellular network anywhere in the world, using Eseye’s platform. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Eseye | Device Insight | Eseye to deliver connected technology capabilities through a single solution, powered by Eseye’s AnyNet Connectivity Platform and Device Insight’s IoT operations and vending services solution. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Eseye | Plintron | Deal for commercial IoT devices on Eseye’s AnyNet Connectivity Network, to ensure that they comply with India’s telecom regulations. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Eseye | Verizon, US | Allows global IoT users to localise devices over-the-air onto the Verizon network utilising an eUICC-compliant approach | 3,21 | Full details |
| Eurotech | Exosite | Collaboration to combine Eurotech’s industrial IoT edge capabilities with Exosite’s ExoSense condition monitoring application, to enable and simplify IIoT adoption from edge to cloud. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Eurotech | GlobalSign | Collaborate to improve device identity management by embedding verifiable device identities and proof of integrity at the earliest possible point in the industrial IoT supply chain. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Eurotech | Infineon, Microsoft and GlobalSign | Deal to simplify large scale and secure roll outs of connected devices, while providing assurance by extending secured device identity chain from the edge to the cloud. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Globalstar | Perth & Kinross Council, Scotland | Use of Globalstar’s SPOT Gen4 devices to safeguard lone workers, particularly those working in rural, isolated and hazardous locations. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Google Cloud | Siemens | Aims to integrate Google Cloud’s data cloud and artificial intelligence / machine learning (AI/ML) technologies with Siemens’ factory automation solutions to optimise factory processes and improve productivity on the shop floor. | 4,21 | Full details |
| HCL Technologies | Tenneco | Multi-year, integrated application development, modernization and operations services contract, wherein HCL will help Tenneco enhance their IT simplification, modernization and transformation journey. | 4,21 | Full details |
| HCL Technologies | UD Trucks, Japan | HCL enters into multi-million dollar digital transformation and hybrid cloud contract to provide UD Trucks with IT transformation spanning across digital platforms, agile digital application development, migration, support and maintenance and digital workplace services. | 4,21 | Full details |
| HTF | BigChange | HTF deployed BigChange’s 5-in-1 system using mobile and tracking technology as part of a real-time paperless system that transformed the business in six months. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Honeywell | MiQro Innovation Collaborative Centre (C2MI), Canada | MiQro chose Honeywell for its new thermal screening and risk self-assessment process at its Bromont, Quebec location to better sustain operations and help improve wellbeing of building occupants and visitors. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Honeywell | Pipistrel | Pipistrel uses Honeywell’s Attitude Heading Reference System and Air Data Module for its Nuuva V300 cargo unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to provide critical navigation and motion-sensing data. | 4,21 | Full details |
| INIT | Merseyrail | INIT enables UK’s Merseyrail passengers to travel the entire network using pre-paid electronic smart cards after the installation of contactless platform validators at the majority of its stations. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Innodisk | Avalue | Partnership that brings Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) to the streets of Taipei City, using Avalue’s EPC-APL and Innodisk’s InnoAGE SSD aims to make traffic easier to manage. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Iteris | Continental | Iteris enters into a collaboration agreement to explore intelligent infrastructure technology for safer, more efficient roadways across North America. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Iteris | Rutgers University | Deal for a multi-phase, multi-year program that leverages Iteris’ smart mobility infrastructure management expertise to support New Jersey Department Of Transportation, and Middlesex County’s connected and automated vehicle initiative. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Iteris | Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) | Deal for a three-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract by the TxDOT, with a potential value of up to US$1.2 million for Iteris’ specialized consulting services. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Locus | Lytx | Integrate to offer future-ready logistics offerings, which enable fleet managers to optimise total cost of ownership (TCO) driven by fuel economy monitoring, driver analytics, visibility, compliance management, and predictive maintenance alerts. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Maxim Integrated Products | Aizip | Uses Maxim Integrated’s MAX78000 neural-network microcontroller that detects people in an image using Aizip’s Visual Wake Words (VWW) model at 0.7 millijoules (mJ) of energy per inference to provide low-power IoT person detection. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Microsoft | Paysafe | Multi-year, global deal that leverages Microsoft Azure’s open and flexible cloud computing platform and tools for Paysafe’s US payment processing and merchant services. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Nokia | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Uses Nokia’s cloud-native convergent charging solution on AWS to boost communications service providers (CSPs) migration of business-critical, high frequency charging applications to the public cloud, and deliver benefits of the cloud for 5G. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Nokia | Cibicom, Denmark | Nokia will implement a new 450MHz LTE (4G) network with access to reliable and secure connectivity, as well as preparedness for mass volume IoT adoption. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Nokia | ClearWorld | Nokia signs reseller agreement with ClearWorld to sell ClearWorld’s smart poles initially to U.S. cities and military bases, as part of Nokia’s smart city solutions portfolio. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Nokia | Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Japan | Nokia chosen by ‘K’ LINE to advance car carrier vessel digital transformation, and deliver a 4G/LTE Field Area Network (FAN) solution for its latest LNG-fueled car carrier ‘Century Highway Green’. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Nokia | Mobily, Saudi Arabia | Nokia expands its Mobily partnership with enterprise IoT network in Saudi Arabia, to accelerate digitalization by launching low power, wide area NB-IoT service for enterprise users. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Nokia | Municipality of Nicosia, Cyprus | Working in partnership with Cyta, the Cyprus telecommunications authority, to help Nicosia advance its smart city transformation, enhance citizen services and improve environmental sustainability. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Nokia | Orange | 5G network optimization deal using Nokia’s self-organizing networks (SON) to boost automation and support 5G optimization across Orange affiliates, starting with France and Spain markets. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Nokia | QTnet, Japan | Deal to launch local 5G private wireless network in Kyushu, Japan through commercial spectrum license acquisition. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Nokia | Samsung | Nokia licensing video standards patents to Samsung. Terms of the agreement remain confidential between the parties. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Nokia | Telenet | Deal allows Telenet to deliver Nokia’s cloud-native Core products for its 5G network rollout, enabling ultra-fast response times for critical applications and reserved capacity for services. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Oraichain | Ocean Protocol | Long-term alliance that integrates products, services and AI data to expand both companies’ AI-powered ecosystem offerings. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Orange Business Services | Maersk | Adopted Orange to ensure business continuity, employee safety, follow restrictions and scale up their teleworking capabilities within a short time frame to allow their employees to work from home. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Orange Business Services | Raspadskaya, Russia | Chooses Orange Business Services IoT solution to oversee vehicle unloading to ensure coal grades, and process tracking at the warehouse in real-time. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Orange Business Services | RS Components (RS) | Selected Orange Business Services as its single end-to-end managed services provider to improve business agility globally | 4,21 | Full details |
| Outsight | RoboSense, China | Combines Outsight’s 3D LiDAR technology with real-time full data analysis, providing robots with greater perception capabilities which are superior to humans. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Palo Alto Networks and Alkira | Koch Industries | Deploys combined offering of Alkira’s Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtual next-generation firewalls to extend Koch’s enterprise infrastructure into the cloud. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Pelion | Johnson Controls | Alliance to accelerate innovation in connectivity, security and intelligence at the edge for Johnson Controls’ OpenBlue technology. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Quectel Wireless | Robustel | Boosts Robustel’s 5G industrial router with next-generation cellular connectivity to deliver high bandwidth, low latency and high reliability connectivity for in-vehicle, branch office and industrial IoT applications. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Renesas Electronics | SiFive | Partnership to jointly develop next-generation, high-end RISC-V solutions for automotive applications. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Semtech | Vision Metering | Integration of Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol has led Vision to roll out municipal utilities across the U.S. and Latin America with its metering hardware and software to remotely access meters in rural and dense urban areas. | 4,21 | Full details |
| SFC Energy | Jenoptik | Enter into cooperation agreement with the aim to increase traffic safety with fuel cell technologies. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Siemens | Google Cloud | Deal to cooperate on AI-based solutions in manufacturing, and simplify deployment of artificial intelligence to the shopfloor, empowering employees and improving overall quality. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Siemens | Mercedes-Benz | Partnership to develop solutions for the qualification of employees, digitalization and for increasing energy efficiency in production at Mercedes-Benz. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Siemens Mobility | New South Wales (NSW) Government | Two contract deals worth around UK£106 million to upgrade and improve the Sydney rail network to boost rail capacity, efficiency and enhance passenger experience. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Siemens Smart Infrastructure | On, Italy | Improve urban mobility in Rome’s historic centre with Siemens providing charging stations and a cloud-based software for charging infrastructure management to On in Italy. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Siemens Smart Infrastructure | Ostrava, Czech Republic | To support zero-emission public transport in Ostrava with charging solution. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Siemens Smart Infrastructure | Port of Kiel, Germany | Adds cloud-based power monitoring to Port of Kiel’s shore power system, and delivers systematic energy data management for efficient operations. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Subex | SkyLab | Companies align to provide IoT and operational technology (OT) cybersecurity solutions and services to the maritime sector. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Telefonica Tech | Fibocom Wireless and aitos.io | Collaborative partnership to create joint solutions that integrate IoT and blockchain technologies. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Telenav | SAIC | Adopts Telenav’s VIVID Nav offering to provide navigation and location-based services for SAIC’s battery-powered electric (BEV) and internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia-New Zealand. | 3,21 | Full details |
| Unity | HERE Technologies | Partner on developing embedded automotive HMIs (human-machine interface), while extending previous alliance on next-generation location technology for autonomous driving, simulations, city planning and digital twins. | 3,21 | Full details |
| University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM Trust) | Ordr | Selected Ordr’s Systems Control Engine (SCE) to provide a new cyber security solution that will improve patient safety. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Vega Cloud | Stickley on Security | Team up to help drive a more secure and compliant remote working experience, without having to add expensive network equipment or replace end user computing devices. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Velodyne | Ansys | Collaborate to incorporate Velodyne’s lidar design into Ansys’ virtual sensor suite, and expedite automakers’ integration of Velodyne’s sensor into autonomous vehicles delivering driving safety and faster path to market. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Velodyne | Knightscope | Selects Velodyne Lidar’s technology to power Knightscope’s fifth generation Autonomous Security Robots (ASRs), as the American security camera company brings in a new era of autonomous technology. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Verizon Business | Associated British Ports (ABP) | Delivered in alliance with Nokia, Verizon’s private 5G platform will provide one of the United Kingdom’s busiest ports with a secure, low-latency private network connection. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Volvo Group | BlackBerry | Volvo will uses BlackBerry QNX as foundational software for its main domain controller engine control unit (ECUs) in the over 300,000 heavy vehicles that Volvo manufactures every year. | 4,21 | Full details |
| Yokogawa | NTT DoCoMo | Deal with NTT DOCOMO to undertake a proof of concept test (PoC) for the remote control of a plant system using 5G, cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and other technologies. | 4,21 | Full details |
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