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Among the highlights of this year’s M2M Summit in Dusseldorf, Germany (October 5-6) will be talks from Brigitte Zypries, Scott Amyx, and Eric Goodness, the M2M Alliance’s Academic Day, as well as an evening event that reportedly offers good networking opportunities.

Centralite Systems has introduced a line of connected home products available directly to consumers.

Ayyeka, a technology company developing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions, has claimed a “first-of-its-kind channel partnership in the United States” with SIGFOX, a provider of dedicated communications service for the Internet of Things (IoT).

SOMFY has joined the ZigBee Alliance at the Promoter level and accepted a seat on its Board of Directors.

According to a new research report from the M2M/IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the global third party Internet of Things (IoT) platform market increased 36% to € 610 million in 2015.

HARMAN International Industries Inc., a connected technologies company for automotive, consumer and enterprise markets, is to work with mobile network operator AT&T to support the growing connected car ecosystem.

To illustrate the work already being done, Part 2 of this IoT standards article lists five groups that are working to make it easier for M2M applications and devices from different vendors to discover and communicate over diverse networks.

MapR Technologies, Inc. has announces an equity financing of US$50 million. With this financing, MapR has now raised a total of $194 million in equity.

UL has been named as a preferred supplier for Transport for London (TfL) and are delighted with the success of their first project together this year.

The Machine to Machine (M2M) / Internet of Things (IoT) sector is currently a Babel of proprietary systems and competing standards. However, several important consortia are working on standards and shared platforms to help combat fragmentation and the preservation of unwarranted data siloes.

With manufacturing industry preparing for a significant step-change, the world’s first truly industrial city has been chosen to host the inaugural exhibition, Industry 4.0 Summit.

Product companies may be missing a huge opportunity when it comes to their internet-connected products. So says a new study called Simplifying the Complexity of IoT, commissioned by Xively by LogMeIn, Inc. and conducted by Forrester Consulting.

WiFi, or Wireless LAN, connectivity has been a growing trend in the information technology sector for many years and it remains one of the fastest growing segments, second only to security (Gartner), reported 27 Caldicot, UK-based Westbase Technology.

Machines on the plant floor will soon actively identify problems, determine a course of action, execute, and measure those results – all without human interaction.

Xura, Inc.’s forge by Xura platform is reported to have been used to provide real-time communication capabilities within new social fitness app, Weqool.

SIGFOX, a provider of dedicated communications service for the Internet of Things (IoT), and UnaBiz, an IoT network operator in Asia, have joined French and Taiwanese officials announcing creation of a global Internet of Things testbed in Taiwan.