IoT News

Leading M2M market analysts at Beecham Research predict almost 1 billion cellular M2M connections worldwide by 2020, according to a new report published yesterday. The ‘Global M2M Connectivity and Services Forecast’ looks at the rapid rise of M2M since 2013 when there were just 172 million cellular M2M connections worldwide but also projects a note

Blog: February 19, 2015 — The 25th annual Distributech conference, held earlier this month in San Diego, USA, brought together technology vendors and the utilities they serve to review new technologies available in the utilities industry. Jacob Pereira of analysts IHS reports.

According to a new research report from Berg Insight, the market for NFC-ready POS terminals continued to show strong momentum in 2014 with annual shipments reaching an estimated 9.5 million units worldwide. The attach rate for NFC was highest in EU28+2 and North America, where 80 percent and 75 percent respectively of the POS terminals

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Companies in LatAm can now join more than 500 partners already signed up to Telefonica’s m2m Global Partner Programme

NFC Forum Test Solution Provider COMPRION is among the first implementing the test cases for the second phase of LLCP and SNEP. Besides the digital protocol, RF analog, and the first phase of LLCP and SNEP, COMPRION’s conformance test system UT³ Platform now also supports this latest enhancement of the NFC Forum’s certification testing.

Barcelona / Zurich / Munich – The international jury of the IoT / M2M Innovation World Cup has now selected ‘the most innovative IoT solutions worldwide’. The winners in each of the six categories will be announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on March 3, and the official award ceremony will follow at

The M2M/IoT is on stage in Milan. Great expectations for M2M+ Symposium 2015, planned for the 27 and 30 April 2015. The important results of last year and the increasing interest in the M2M/IoT communication raise the expectations for the upcoming third edition.

ILS Technology, a Telit company, announced enhancements to its popular deviceWISE Application Enablement Platform for the Industrial Internet-of-Things, adding upgraded Cloud Service capabilities that help redefine the information-driven enterprise – transforming manufacturing, energy and natural resources, transportation and retail transaction management with improved connectivity, real-time data that increase performance, reliability and competitiveness within factories, remote

Global technology giants including Google, LG, Intel, Samsung and IBM are among the speakers already confirmed for The Wearable Technology Show, which returns to London for its second outing in 2015.

DataArt, a leading technology consulting firm, today announced that 2014 was its best year yet: the company posted record revenue of $54M, a 36% increase year-on-year; expanded operations to Central Europe and Latin America; and won 91 new blue chip clients across key industry practices.

London & Cambridge, UK – AlertMe announced on Friday it has agreed the sale of the company to British Gas (part of the Centrica plc group) in a deal said to be worth UK£65 million (US$100 million). This news follows on the heels of ARM’s purchase of Offspark, a Dutch IoT communications security company.

SIMalliance has published guidance for banks, retailers, transit operators and other service providers aiming to bring NFC services to market, in an effort to help them choose the right NFC deployment technology model.

The farming industry must embrace the use of precision agriculture and harness the emerging Internet  of Things (IoT), if it is to feed the 9.6 billion global population expected by 2050, says Therese Cory, senior analyst at Beecham Research and one of the authors of a new report has launched called ‘Towards Smart Farming’. The

W-Locate, a company offering M2M telematics, big data, cloud computing and location intelligence to enterprises, has reported its trends for the evolution of the 21st century Smart City. These are based on the ongoing discussions the company is having with operators, businesses and government bodies.

Isansys Lifecare Ltd, the provider of complete real-time physiological patient data services and systems, has announced the results of a collaborative pilot study, with a medical centre in India, based on its first generation Patient Status Engine.