Vodafone Ireland has today announced details of its partnership with Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, to provide 95 per cent of the carrier’s telecoms, machine to machine and communications needs. The agreement will facilitate Ryanair’s teams including pilots and cabin crew with up to the minute information, improving the overall customer experience within the airline.

Companies in LatAm can now join more than 500 partners already signed up to Telefonica’s m2m Global Partner Programme

There is growing concern within the IoT sector that security demands our urgent attention if the industry is to avert a crisis in confidence. Unless the Internet of Things (IoT ) is made secure from end-to-end for all users, both at consumer and enterprise levels, we risk seeing IoT appearing in disaster headlines that will undermine its success before it is even widely adopted.

Lantronix, Inc. has announced the launch of its new SLC™ 8000 – the industry’s modular console manager. Designed to reduce deployment and management costs and time by providing secure, centralised out-of-band management to most IT equipment, the new SLC 8000 can be expanded from eight to 48 ports. In a typical deployment, each port would manage one piece of IT equipment such as [...]

IAR Systems® has announces that Local Energy Appliances, a startup company specialising on smart systems and solutions for electrical grids in developing countries, joins the sponsor program IAR Green Innovation Program. IAR Green Innovation Program supports innovative development projects in eco-friendly technology. Within this program, IAR Systems provides Local Energy Appliances with [...]

The heart of every smart metering system is the smart meter itself, which is why Telekom Austria Group M2M has developed the best smart metering portfolio for the Austrian market. Pre-orders for the company’s smart metering solution ‘Österreich Zähler’ can now be placed.

€“Using the Micro PLC platform from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. designers now have the tools to implement Industry 4.0 with less power, parts, and total costs. The platform consists of five reference designs which can operate as stand-alone subsystems and be configured and tested with a laptopâ€s USB port.

New from Alpha Micro Components, successful independent specialist franchised distributor of components for telematics and M2M, is the ODIN-W160 rugged multi-radio Internet of Things (IOT) module from u-blox for demanding industrial, vehicle, medical, and security applications.

Cities around the globe spend as much as 40 percent of their energy budgets on street lighting. Lighting accounts for almost 6 percent of global CO2 greenhouse gas emissions. What if there was a way to both cut costs and drive down emissions? Enter gridComm, a provider of power line communications (PLC) solutions that enable the transformation of the power grid into a smart grid. gridComm [...]

Despite its low ARPU, the wireless M2M market has become a key focus of many mobile network operators as their traditional voice and data markets become saturated. Likewise, government and regulatory initiatives such as the EU initiatives to have a smart meter penetration level of 80% by 2020 and the mandatory inclusion of automotive safety systems such as eCall in all new car models, have [...]