IoT News

New research from market analysts, Juniper Research, has found that annual revenues from connected healthcare and fitness services will approach $2bn by 2019, nearly 6 times the $320m value estimated for this year.

Host card emulation (HCE) mobile payments, Bell ID, has announces that significant recent growth has seen the company strengthen its position in the mobile payments market. The launch of its HCE and token service provider (TSP) tokenisation solutions has further driven team expansion, requiring investment in new, larger offices for its Rotterdam headquarters.

Be prepared to be shocked. Over the next 20 years, the US will lose 50% of its workforce to automation. Think about it, says Philip Letts, CEO, of blur Group. Every other job will be taken by a robot.

In its recent report, The Identity of Things (IDoT) for the Internet of Things, Gartner lays out how it believes the Internet of Things (IoT), or what is often now referred to as the Internet of Everything (IoE), cannot and will not prosper unless organisations knuckle down and come to grips with how to manage

Gemalto has announced the deployment of prepaid EMV banking cards to complement Vodacom’s m pesa mobile wallet service in South Africa. The card is certified by the major international payment schemes and accepted at any of the 240,000 EMV compliant payment terminals and over 27,000 ATMs throughout the country, which will significantly extend the reach

Telenor Connexion, has announced that Jimmy Johansson has been promoted to information security and privacy officer. Jimmy Johansson was most recently technical architecht at the company.

In today’s fragmented multiple network environment, managing services to provide quality customer engagement whilst maximising revenues is a challenge for service providers. Where distributed networks can now include hundreds of thousands of Internet of Things (IoT) connections, this challenge is only getting more complex as members of the Stream Technologies executive team explain.

Wind River®, has delivered enhancements to Wind River Open Virtualisation, Security Profile for Wind River Linux, and Carrier Grade Profile for Wind River Linux. These profiles provide developers with key capabilities to create the safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems that will harness the power of the Internet of Things (IoT).

Telit Wireless Solutions, enabler of the Internet of the Things (IoT), has announced that FastTrack, a player in electronic bag tags and track & trace solutions for travellers, has designed its new Eviate eTrack solution using Telit’s HE910-D and SE868 V2 GPS receivers.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia´s (CBA) latest mobile Cloud Payment launch is amongst the commercial offerings for HCE (Host Card Emulation) for NFC contactless payments. CBA customers can enroll for the service and link it to their CBA MasterCard debit account. The mobile payment service is part of CBA’s CommBank latest mobile application and is supported

Amdocs has long been recognised as one of the industry’s leading software and services companies, supporting telecommunications, media and entertainment service providers around the world. With more and more M2M/IoT solutions looking to come to market, it’s fast becoming clear that new types of services and vendor relationships will be required to drive and support increasing demand. To get

IAR Systems® has released version 2.70 of its development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for Renesas RX family of MCUs. In addition to new features including position-independent code and data, version 2.70 adds updated device support and example projects for the latest Renesas devices.

The US Government’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that its Bureau of Consumer Protection is to replace the existing Mobile Technology Unit with a new Office of Technology Research and Investigation (OTRI).

Austrian-based company Rosenbauer, the manufacturer of firefighting equipment, has announces it has chosen Telekom Austria Group M2M’s innovative telematics solutions for the administration of its firefighting vehicles. As of now, security-critical vehicles will be connected with the central server application via a mobile data connection (GPRS/UMTS). This solution is particularly well suited for global-scale deployment,

Numerex Corp. a provider of interactive machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions enabling the Internet of Things (IoT), has unveiled a new, economical, unlimited satellite-based solution for tracking critical and high-value assets, dispersed to virtually any location worldwide, with a reporting frequency of as little as every five minutes.

FastNet has joined the LoRa Alliance – an organisation aimed at standardising low power WANs (LPWANs) for global deployment, to boost machine-to-machine industrial applications and the Internet of Things (IoT).