IoT News

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u-blox, a global provider in wireless and positioning modules and chips, announced the release of its u-blox 8 module series. It follows the launch in January of the u-blox 8 GPS/GLONASS receiver platform, an update of the u‑blox 7 platform.

Disruptive Technologies has announced $6.13 million (NOK 50 million) in new equity financing from Ubon Partners. Disruptive Technologies develops wireless sensors communicating with the Internet and the sensors have unique characteristics in terms of size, range and battery capacity.

ZyXEL Communications, provider of secure broadband networking, Internet access and connected home products, announced the launch of the NWA5123-AC 802.11ac Dual-Radio Unified Access Point.

A recent survey conducted by Lux Insights, Inc. puts consumer awareness of Bluetooth wireless technology at 92% globally, with 62% of respondents reporting a purchasing preference for Bluetooth enabled products, noting Bluetooth is reliable, easy to use, and makes life easier.

Business leaders looking to improve the quality of their customers’ digital experience agree they do not know where to start, according to research published by Actual Experience.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has continued to snowball over the past couple of years, and it’s the buzzword that continues to dominate the tech world.

Professional services consultancy Procorre is warning of a shortfall in the number of IT consultants available across Europe to advise on projects relating to rise of the Internet of Things (IoT).

IoT is here right now but it’s also one of the biggest application areas for 5G. Yet it’s easy to forget that while the industry has a clear vision of services that it hopes 5G will facilitate, much remains to be determined on the technical front with standardisation activities just beginning.

Ingenu™, a company delivering connectivity exclusively to machines, announced that the City of Riverside, California, has selected Ingenu’s Machine Network™ to provide network connectivity for the city’s electricity distribution infrastructure.

Wearables in enterprise and industrial environments continue to see high levels of interest and market momentum, as companies across a wide variety of industry sectors conduct trials and plan deployments with a diverse set of devices across multiple use cases.

SmartEnergy IP™, a division of SmartMark Communications, announced that it will host the 2016 Smart Grid Customer Education Symposium, in partnership with PECO, on September 29th, 2016, at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel, 1200 Market St, Philadelphia, PA.

German car manufacturer, BMW Group, has unveiled the ultimate intelligent driving car of the future to celebrate 100 years of its existence. BMW showcased a prototype of the car to represent the future of vehicles for next 100 years.

myPINpad, a provider of multi-factor authentication technology for unsecured touchscreen devices, has released a topical whitepaper.

The potential of the Internet of Things is no secret: Gartner predicts 20.8 billion things will be connected by 2020. Others say that number could be as high as 50 billion. But connecting technologies in new ways and deploying them in new cyber-physical environments creates countless new security threats.

Over the last couple of years, as M2M has slowly morphed into the all-encompassing IoT vision, the term ‘transformation’ has started to become used more and more in all the marketing material, exhibition signage and conference papers that our industry seems to generate by the ton. When it comes to filtering out reality from the