Open Interconnect Consortium helps developers tackle IoT with new toolkit and now has over 150 members

The Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) has announced the availability of an important update for developers that will help organisations swiftly navigate the OIC’s resources.

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Deutsche Telekom’s smart home platform grows to over 40 partners and adds energy-saving products

Deutsche Telekom has welcomed five new partners to its QIVICON smart home platform; Smappee, Plugwise, Grünspar, E WIE EINFACH and Stadtwerke Karlsruhe.

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The emergence of IoT specific SIMs and networks

Webinar online Learn why customers are moving away from traditional roaming SIMs and networks in favour of services designed specifically for the needs of connected products and services.

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Qualcomm announces mobile industry’s first Gigabit Class LTE modem

Qualcomm Incorporated announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has introduced its sixth-generation discrete LTE multimode chipset — the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X16 LTE modem, which is built on a leading-edge 14nm FinFET process — and the Qualcomm RF Transceiver, WTR5975.

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Starhome Mach offers platform designed to help operators compete in M2M/IoT

Starhome Mach has launched its HD-IoT platform to help operators profitably compete in the M2M/IoT market.

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Veniam announces US$22m in Series B IoT funding from Verizon, Cisco, Orange, and Yamaha Motor

Veniam that delivers the Internet of Moving Things, announced a $22 million Series B round.

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u-blox brings centimeter-level precision GNSS technology to the mass market

u-blox, a global provider in wireless and positioning modules and chips, launched the NEO-M8P GNSS receiver modules delivering high performance down to centimeter-level accuracy.

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Giesecke & Devrient expects 75% of all cars to be shipped with integrated connectivity by 2020

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), an automotive security provider, expects that approximately 75% of all cars shipped in 2020 will be delivered with integrated connectivity.

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5by5 Wireless in negotiations for large area wireless in over 30 countries

Greg Waite, CEO of InventionShare™, reported that 5by5 Wireless™ is now working with agents, country partners, governments, ISPs and telcos in various partnership programmes to support high speed internet developments through large area wireless consumer applications and IoT and smart city applications in over 30 countries.

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SIGFOX extends global Internet of Things network coverage to Mauritius and French Overseas Territories

SIGFOX, which aims to establish its dedicated Internet of Things network on every continent in 2016 and triple the number of countries covered, announced coverage partnerships with wireless network operators in Mauritius and the French Overseas Territories.

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SMEs now ready to engage with the large corporates on IoT, says EveryWare

EveryWare Ltd, a real-time analytics, has ‘leapt forward’ in time at IoT Tech Expo Europe 2016, taking place recently in London.

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Installed base of monitored alarm systems in Europe and North America reached 39 million at end of 2015

According to a new research report by Berg Insight, the number of monitored alarm systems in Europe is forecasted to grow from 8.4 million in 2015 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.0% to reach 10.6 million in 2020. In North America, the number of monitored alarm systems is forecasted to grow at

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How important is predictive maintenance to your business?

What is Machine Learning? Machine Learning can be described as the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data, rather than follow programmed instructions. IoT and Machine Learning are said to go hand in hand.

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PTC ThingWorx joins MK:Smart to enable rapid development for IoT applications

PTC has announced that ThingWorx, a PTC technology, is joining the MK:Smart project. This is a $23,236,160 (£16 million) HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) smart-city initiative, led by the UK’s Open University, which aims to tackle barriers to economic growth in the city of Milton Keynes, UK.

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Three new snapdragon processors from Qualcomm bring advanced modem, imaging and sensors to mainstream devices

Qualcomm Incorporated has announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has introduced three new next-generation Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processors: the Snapdragon 625, 435 and 425.

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Operators see more opportunity in IoT than OTT, says global risk management survey

Risk management and analytics expert Neural Technologies has found that more operators perceive the Internet of Things (IoT) as a driver of potential ARPU growth than Over the Top (OTT) services.

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