Telematics Wireless and Pangea partner to provide smart street lighting solutions

Telematics Wireless Ltd. (Telematics) and Pangea have announced a partnership to provide Cellular Connectivity for Smart Street Lighting Solutions.

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Globetouch wins GSMA award for ‘Best Mobile Innovation for Connected Lifestyle’

Globetouch, announced that its CloudSIM solution for the connected car was recently named the winner of the prestigious GSMA Asia Mobile Award for ‘Best Mobile Innovation for Connected Lifestyle’.

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IoT industry needs to focus on demand rather than need, concludes FWIC

The Internet of Things industry is confusing need with demand said Mischa Dohler, Professor King’s College London and co-founder of Worldsensing, in an opening session at this week’s CW 8th Future of Wireless International Conference at the IET: Savoy Place in London.

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Creating new relationships, Part 2: Through connected technologies, data and you

In the near future, technology – specifically, technologies wrapped up as the Internet of Things (IoT) – will allow companies to give products their own voices and stories. This will give the products a perceived sense of agency, encouraging consumers to develop relationships with the items.

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Shipments of cellular M2M modules reached 96m units in 2015

Berg Insight estimated that global cellular M2M module shipments increased by 19.4% in 2015 to a new record level of 96.0 million.

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u-blox Untethered Dead Reckoning technology now in the smallest form-factor

u-blox announced the availability of its miniature Untethered Dead Reckoning (UDR) receiver EVA-M8E.

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The three growth factors of the Smart Home market

The largest share of the IoT pie is taken up by Smart Home devices. Products like Nest and Hue are seen as pioneers, and we see new innovations following suit every day. For anyone eager to explore this market, it’s important to understand the factors behind this growth and how to solve for this segment.

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ANT Telecom provides Paralloy with lone worker solution to provide safety for its staff

Automated communications provider, ANT Telecom is working with Paralloy, a manufacturer of specialist cast tubes and fittings for use in high temperature and corrosive environments, to provide a lone worker solution that will enhance the safety of its ‘at risk’ workforce.

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Qualcomm enhances location platform for IoT, automotive and telematics through Galileo satellites

Qualcomm Inc. has announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., is supporting the European Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) broadly in its product portfolios.

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Creating new relationships with the Things we buy – Part 2: The desirability of connected products

In the near future, technology – specifically, technologies wrapped up as the Internet of Things (IoT) – will allow companies to give products their own voices and stories. This will give the products a perceived sense of agency, encouraging consumers to develop relationships with the items.

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Libelium IoT ecosystem grows with Amazon and six new cloud partners

Today, at Sensors Expo, Libelium has announced new integration agreements with software partners and new kits for The IoT Marketplace. The company keeps on expanding interoperability of Meshlium IoT gateway and facilitating the access to end solutions in the IoT.

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Augmented and virtual reality in Boston, and autonomous things in Vienna

THE WEEK: Homeward bound from a User Group conference unlike any I’ve attended before, says Jeremy Cowan. This time it was PTC‘s annual thrash in sunny Boston, Massachussetts, for 4,000 of their closest friends.

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Bluetooth 5 to quadruple range, double speed, and increase data broadcasting capacity by 800%

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) reported that its next release, coming late 2016 to early 2017, will be called Bluetooth 5 and will include significantly increased range, speed, and broadcast messaging capacity.

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SIGFOX North America joins IMC trade group ‘to educate’ members on LPWA connectivity

SIGFOX North America, a provider of dedicated connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT), has joined the trade association, the IoT M2M Council (IMC) as the group’s newest sustaining company and board member.

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ABRY Partners acquires Swedish-Norwegian technology company AddSecure

The Swedish-Norwegian technology company AddSecure has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by ABRY Partners, an American private equity firm.

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Xilinx broadens the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family with streamlined dual-core devices

Xilinx, Inc. has added streamlined dual-core members to the Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC portfolio of devices. The new dual-core (CG) family members round out the Xilinx MPSoC portfolio offering cost and power optimised, dual application- and dual real-time processor combinations.

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