IoT Hot List March and April 2022 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 | Avieco | Completion of acquisition to help companies understand, manage and improve their sustainability performance. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Accenture | Ergo | Acquisition of Ergo to create a culture of data-driven decision-making using big data, analytics, and AI. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Accenture | strivr | Investment in strivr to help advance immersive learning in the metaverse continuum era. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Accenture | Trancom ITS | Acquire capabilities from Trancom ITS to offer hyper-automation to manufacturing and logistics clients. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Accora | Ctrack by Inseego | Deal to upgrade fleet telematics with integrated AI dashcams and advanced driver behaviour monitoring. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Aeris | VisionTrack | Partnership enables VisionTrack to expedite their go-to market strategy, offer customer trials of VisionTrack solutions. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Alif Semiconductor | OQ Technology | Vendors sign MoU to collaborate on a NB-IoT solution for hybrid terrestrial satellite networking. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Armaments Research Company | Collaboration with AWS Federal Small Business Team aligned to meet and exceed technical requirements of federal agencies. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Boeing | Deal will use AWS’s comprehensive cloud portfolio to strengthen its digital foundations for engineering and manufacturing. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Ignion | Chooses AWS to transform the IoT antenna design process with AI, adds cloud computing expertise. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Speedcast | Speedcast is recognised as an AWS Software Path partner, and its SIGMA platform receives technical validation. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Anaconda | Esri | Partnership to provide ArcGIS users with access to a secure package environment for geospatial community. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Arable | Bayer | Partnership to accelerate agriculture’s digital transformation and tailor plant genetics to in-field conditions. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| athenahealth | MedWise | Expanded partnership through which MedWise will utilise athenaOne’s Medical Coding solution to help reduce administrative burden. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Backblaze | CTERA | Partnership that provides all-in-one, distributed cloud file storage solution, and improves collaboration. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Baker Hughes | C3 AI, Accenture, Microsoft | Collaboration on industrial asset management solutions for clients in energy, industrial sectors. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| BigChange | Dyno-Rod | Revolutionised provision of drain cleaning services in Ireland after implementation of BigChange’s field service management software. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Blue.cloud | KoçDigital, Turkey | KoçDigital to accelerate Blue.cloud’s AI innovations, expand capabilities with a suite of solutions that improve predictive analysis. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Bluebird Nordic | NordicGSA, Denmark | NordicGSA has become the GSSA for Icelandic cargo airline Bluebird Nordic, an Avia Solutions Group company. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| BMW | HERE Technologies | BMW chooses HERE Technologies as its provider of real-time traffic information to BMW drivers in 70 countries. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| BMW | T-Mobile | BMW debuts America’s initial 5G connected cars powered by T-Mobile for BMW as part of a long-term agreement. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| BrainChip Holdings | nViso SA | Vendors collaborate to target battery-powered applications in robotics and mobility/automotive. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Bumicom Telecommunications | Softil | Bumicom adopts Softil’s BEEHD technology and will be licensed by Bumicom to launch a new range of MCX recorders. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) | HUK-COBURG, Germany | CMT powers new automatic crash assistance and digital claims services offered by HUK-COBURG. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| CargoAi | Air Canada Cargo | Air Canada Cargo chooses CargoAi’s eBooking & eQuote platform to accelerate eBooking adoption with freight forwarders. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Celonis, Accenture | MANN+HUMMEL | Joint support to accelerate MANN+HUMMEL’s company-wide digital transformation and become a data-driven enterprise. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Cerillion | MVN-X | Cerillion’s CCS enabled MVN-X to reach one million subscribers across its portfolio of MVNO brands. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Ciena | EASSy | Deployment uses Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme to increase capacity and performance in sub-Saharan Africa. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| CloudBlue | CloudSense | Vendors form an alliance to connect telcos with a broad ecosystem of ICT channel partners. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| CommScope | Orange Belgium | Orange deploys CommScope’s set-tops providing subscribers with both live and premium streaming viewing options. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Cubic | Ireland’s National Transport Authority (NTA) | Contract execution by Ireland’s NTA for Cubic to be operations service provider for transport authority’s TFI Leap Card system. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Device Authority | Entrust | Partnership to remove logistical challenges of large-scale IoT deployment by offering automated PKI certificate management. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Ericsson | Batelco, Bahrain | Vendors sign an MoU to collaborate on 5G technologies and innovations in line with the Kingdom of Bahrain’s digital economy vision. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Ericsson | Etisalat Misr | Deal to upgrade and modernise Etisalat Misr’s BSS platform to support data and VoLTE traffic growth, and IoT. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Ericsson, XtremeLTE | Illinois Electric Cooperative | Partnership to modernise networks in rural Pike County, Illinois, and connect underserved rural communities. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Ericsson Routes | Hillwood | Vendors partner to advance autonomous mobility and make transportation safer and more sustainable. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Eseye | Telli Health | Eseye enables Telli Health to launch initial eUICC-certified remote patient monitoring devices on Verizon’s 4G LTE network in US. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Esri | City of Yakima, Washington | Yakima city adopts ArcGIS Image for ArcGIS Online to Enhance City Services, eases accessibility to the public. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Esri | MO Technologies | Deploys Esri’s ArcGIS Platform to provide precise, frequently updated data at the core of MO’s tools. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Esri | Stone Environmental | Vendors join to help expand Vermont broadband access and address the state’s digital divide. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| FPT Software | Squirro | Deal with Squirro offering augmented intelligence solutions, make better-informed decisions and drive business growth. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Foundries.io | Arduino | Partnership that delivers secure, embedded Linux IoT and Edge solutions with the Arduino Pro Portenta X8. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Globalstar | The Helmholtz Center Hereon | The Helmholtz Center Hereon uses SPOT Trace satellite GPS trackers to conduct worldwide oceanography research. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Google Cloud | BT | Announcement of five-year partnership to accelerate BT’s company-wide digital transformation. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Green Custard | Britvic | Commissioned by Britvic to develop IoT-enabled drink dispense software for its flavour tap to cut plastic use. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| HCL Technologies | Avaloq | Enhance global partnership with Avaloq to accelerate innovation in digital wealth management and accelerate innovation. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| HelpSystems | Terranova Security | Acquisition of Terranova to aid global customers in building localised employee security awareness training. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| HERE Technologies | BMW | HERE adds its predictive routing capabilities to Learning Navigation feature of BMW Maps as part of BMW Operating System 8. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| HERE Technologies | China FAW Group | China FAW taps HERE Location Services and Content to expand its premium car brand Hongqi into Europe and the GCC. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| HUBER+SUHNER | 450connect | HUBER+SUHNER chosen as supplier for LTE450 MHz antennas and components for Germany’s 450 MHz network platform. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| IBM | Red Hat | Companies announce a five-year collaboration to modernise the U.S. Department of Education’s G5 grants management system. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Infotech | Cultivate Geospatial Solution | Alliance to develop GIS capabilities that eliminate gaps in digital project delivery data lifecycle. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Intel | ConnectWise | Expanded collaboration with Intel to help MSPs boost threat detection and response to reduce crippling effects of ransomware. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Iteris | University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) | Iteris chosen by UMTRI for smart mobility and safety initiative, extending Iteris’ smart mobility infrastructure management technologies. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Itron | CenterPoint Energy | Vendors modernise their natural gas distribution system to improve safety, reliability and the customer experience. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Isuzu Trucks | HERE Navigation | Isuzu Trucks uses HERE Navigation in its new 2022 model year F Series, FX Series, and FY Series trucks | 4,22 | Full Details |
| John Deere | Samsara | Expanding existing JDLink integration delivers new features that provide greater visibility into support vehicles to optimise farming operations. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Kerlink | Unnamed wind-energy parks | Kerlink’s Wirnet iStation gateways help to power multiple LoRaWAN networks in Dutch wind-energy parks. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Kerlink | VIoT Group | Vendors deploy Vietnam’s nationwide LoRaWAN network and Helium blockchain system. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Lenovo | Sequitur Labs | Lenovo uses Sequitur Labs as technology vendor for protecting edge AI computing applications utilised. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Liberty Strategic Capital | Zimperium | Acquisition by Liberty Strategic Capital to accelerate the mission of strengthening mobile security. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| MachineQ | GP PRO | Deal to offer KOLO Smart Monitoring System to facilities using MachineQ’s IoT network connectivity platform. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Netcracker, NEC | e& | Deployment of Netcracker Edge Orchestration to innovate with 5G and new edge services in vertical markets. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Netrix | Edrans | Acquisition of Edrans to expand Netrix’s line of public cloud solutions, DevOps-as-a-Service, and delivery capacity. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Nexxiot TradeTech | Atir Rail | Adoption of Nexxiot TradeTech to increase visibility of the fleet and improve the efficiency of operations. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Nokia | OMRON Corp. | Chosen by OMRON to trial a private wireless network at its Automation Centre Kusatsu in Shiga Prefecture. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Nokia | Utimaco | Vendors jointly develop 5G security solutions for core mobile networks in a move that expands the partnership. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Nokia Bell Labs | Equideum Health | Collaboration focuses on integrating and leveraging edge datasets to be made available for clinical research purposes. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Nordic Semiconductor | Urban Control | Vendors develop plug-and-play IoT LED streetlight controller to make cities instantly smart. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Orange | DabaDoc | Service that allows African diaspora residing in Europe, US to instantly offer a video medical consultation to their relatives living in their country of origin. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Orange Business Services | Fortinet | Vendors partner on SASE to create a secure and scalable cloud-native network. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Orange Wholesale France | Soracom | Partnership enables Soracom to offer advanced IoT connectivity to innovators, and grow IoT connectivity services. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| PCTEL | Stargent IoT | Alliance with Stargent IoT to provide IoT solutions for use cases like smart manufacturing, process automation, and asset tracking. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Peak Technologies | OLR Retail | Partnership to accelerate integration of Peak’s M-Netics retail software solution, offer robust, future-proofed mobile solution. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| PTC | Intland Software | Definitive agreement has been reached to acquire Intland Software for approximately US$280 million (€258.26 million). | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Qatar Airways Cargo | WiseTech Global | Launch of a direct eBooking solution between the vendors’ global operating systems has gone live. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Red Hat | University Health Network | University Health Network transforms core connected healthcare system with Red Hat integration to deliver better patient outcomes. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Renesas Electronics | Fixstars | Vendors partner to establish automotive SW platform lab to develop software and operating environments for deep learning. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Renesas Electronics | Honda | Expansion of Renesas’ collaboration with Honda in the field of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Renesas Electronics | Tata Elxsi | Vendors collaborate on a design centre in Bangalore that will develop targeted solutions for electric vehicles (EV). | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Senet | GRiT Technologies | Vendors provide LoRaWAN IoT connectivity to Ohio River Valley to support growth in rural manufacturing, healthcare, and agricultural IoT initiatives. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Senet | Helium Network | Vendors expand integration to deliver LoRaWAN connectivity and managed network services globally. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Septentrio | MicroPilot | Collaboration to support seamless integration of positioning and orientation into MicroPilot’s autopilot ecosystem. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| ServiceNow | 3CLogic | 3CLogic expands its technology partnership with ServiceNow to include technology workflows business unit. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Softil | Tait Communications, New Zealand | Licensing agreement with Tait to allow its broadband solutions to interoperate on a wider scale. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| SoftServe | Stripe | Companies partner to drive international payment integrations and make money movement borderless and straightforward. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| SmartBear | Pactflow | Acquisition of Pactflow to deliver initial key milestones in defining next-generation API development platform. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Smart Meter Corp. | Wanda Health | Wanda Health aligns with Smart Meter to ensure reliable, high-quality data capture from patients. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Speedcast | Lars Thrane | Speedcast partners with Lars Thrane to offer a suite of terminals and ability to deliver Iridium GMDSS services. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Stacuity | JT-IoT | Partnership to combine Stacuity’s programmable platform with JT IoT’s connectivity footprint. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Stellantis N.V. | Qualcomm Technologies | Collaboration to power new vehicle platforms with Snapdragon digital chassis solutions. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Synopsys | WhiteHat Security | Acquisition of WhiteHat Security from NTT for US$330 million, expanding its application security SaaS capabilities. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Syntrace | UCL | UCL selects Synthace to help make digital, cloud-based lab work a reality for educational and research purposes. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Teledyne FLIR | Unnamed critical infrastructure site, Sweden | Completion of an installation of a long-range drone detection system to detect threats in all conditions at the site. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Telefonica | Pente Networks | Vendors work on a managed 5G cloud service to enable advanced transformation use cases for enterprises. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Telefonica Tech | La Marina de Valencia | Deal to digitise the electricity and water supply for boats using Telefónica’s IDoT, CapaciCard and blockchain technology. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Telefonica Tech | Zscaler | Vendors join forces to empower Telefonica’s Security Edge service to implement comprehensive security built on zero trust. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Telent | AMRC | Telent arms the AMRC with the 5G private network tools to unlock Industry 4.0 potential for its customers. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Thundercomm | Pudu Robotics | Pudu Robotics unveils two intelligent robots empowered by Thundercomm’s advanced SOM products and technologies. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Tunstall Healthcare | BeWo Unternehmensgruppe | Tunstall Healthcare expands its German presence and service offering with acquisition of BeWo for an undisclosed amount. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| UiPath | NCS | Partnership to support NCS in its journey to accelerate automated service delivery across the Asia Pacific. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Verizon | Oracle | Vendors team to explore how Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband can transform industries, as users can explore, create, and test 5G use cases. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Vodafone NZ | IBM, MATRIXX Software | Extension of collaboration to provide enterprise-wide digital commerce for post-pay, pre-pay, wholesale, IoT customers. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Volkswagen | Software AG | Automaker accelerates transformation with boost from Software AG for internal transformation processes. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| Wipro | Convergence Acceleration Solutions | Acquisition to expand its consulting capabilities for CSPs, drive large scale business and technology transformation. | 4,22 | Full Details |
| Zizo | Intellegens | Alliance to help businesses extract more value from their data through advanced data management and analytics. | 3,22 | Full Details |
| ZTE | Converge ICT | ZTE teams up with Converge ICT to bring XGS-PON services in the Philippines’ residential markets. | 3,22 | Full Details |
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