IoT News

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

The first thing to note about Industrial IoT is that it encompasses all of IoT and more. Fleet management (FM) represents an early application area of M2M/IoT technology writes Rickard Andersson, senior analyst at Berg Insight. The fleet management market for commercial vehicles has developed significantly over the past decades, impacted by general trends such

Sequans Communications S.A. has announced that its newest EZLinkLTE module, the US60L, has been certified to operate on AT&T’s 4G LTE network, having achieved technical acceptance (TA) from AT&T’s Network Ready Lab.

IoT Now Magazine (ISSN 2397-2807) explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing CSPs across this sector. Our exclusive interviews pass on some key lessons learned by those who have taken the first steps in next gen Internet of Things (IoT) services. In Apr/May 2016 issue: TALKING HEADS: Shu Gan, new CMO at Numerex, talks about how his

Huawei, a global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, and Vodafone Group announce the opening of an Open IoT Lab to work on the development of products and applications relating to Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology.

Five of the eight largest healthcare security breaches that occurred since the beginning of 2010 – those with more than one million records reportedly compromised – took place during the first six months of 2015, according to IBM X-Force’s 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index.

PTC announced that DEPsys Smart Grid Solutions, a provider of software and hardware technology designed to control and manage power grids, has implemented PTC ThingWorx technology in order to flexibly serve a diverse market.

As the Internet of Things (IoT) – in which everything from shoes to reservoirs are able to report their status and respond to network information – becomes ubiquitous, we are set to see the biggest disruption to business models since the introduction of the internet,

A new virtual/augmented reality hub to drive technology has been launched by two PhD students at Liverpool Science Park. This innovative technology sector is projected to be worth $150 billion by 2020.

When we think about mobile, it’s natural to think about phones. But in fact by 2020, it is projected that handsets will account for only 72% of mobile connections. Instead, growth will come from connected M2M devices.

Telensa, which provides end-to-end smart city solutions using its low power Ultra Narrow Band (UNB) wireless technology, and King Luminaire Co. Inc., manufacturer of high-quality outdoor lighting fixtures, announced that they have successfully completed field tests

Business strategist James F. Moore first put forward the idea of a business ecosystem in a 1993 Harvard Business Review article, “Predators and Prey: A New Ecology of Competition.” Drawing on insights into biological ecosystems, Moore showed how organizations collaborate and compete to survive. Business ecosystems have continued to attract attention increasingly the most innovative

Cumulocity, a provider of Internet of Things (IoT) software and solutions, and Astea International Inc., a provider in service management and mobile workforce solutions, are to offer a ‘comprehensive end-to-end service management solution’. It is available today.

Eurotech, a supplier of embedded technologies, products and IoT systems, announced a contract with King County Metro Transit to deliver its mobile access router to buses in the greater-Seattle area.

Despite mobile fraud growing by 81% between 2011 and 2015, nearly four out of ten merchants (38.5%) say their biggest challenge managing fraud risk in the mobile channel is figuring out if they even have a mobile fraud problem in the first place.