People & Places

EnOcean GmbH, the provider of energy harvesting Internet-of-Things (“IoT”) devices and sensor-to-cloud solutions, and Parabellum Acquisition Corp, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company has announced that they have entered into a business combination agreement that will result in EnOcean becoming a publicly listed company subject to the closing. Upon closing of the transaction, the

Essence Group, a technology group developing and supplying wireless, cloud-based security solutions for homes, families and businesses, today announced it will demonstrate its advanced IoT-based security solutions at the Expoprotection exhibition in Paris, France.

Energous Corporation, a developer of RF-based charging for wireless power networks, and Sensirion, provider of CO2 sensor products, has announced a collaboration to develop maintenance-free CO2 sensors powered wirelessly over the air for Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) improvement in industrial and commercial applications. The companies are working to combine Energous’ wireless power transfer technology and Sensirion’s

Munich, Germany – Temperatures in many regions of the world once again reached record highs this year. The demand for air conditioning systems is on the rise. In the EU, 50% of the energy consumed in buildings and industry is used for heating and cooling. Semiconductor technologies can play a decisive role in cutting the

Long Beach, United States – Rocket Lab USA, a launch and space systems company, announced it has been selected by MDA Ltd to develop the Satellite Operations Control Center (SOCC) for Globalstar’s growing constellation. MDA is the prime contractor for Globalstar’s new low Earth orbit constellation.

Woodcliff Lake, United States – Powerfleet, Inc., a global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions that optimise the performance of mobile assets and resources to unify business operations, has formed a partnership with ClickNow, a protection-as-a-service smart mobile application company.

Copenhagen, Denmark – Getting an Internet of Things (IoT) project off the ground has historically looked something like this: you receive your IoT device, you choose a provider and a data plan, the provider or carrier sends you a SIM card, and you then insert your SIM into your device to connect to your provider.

Camarillo, United States – Semtech Corporation, a global supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announces its collaboration with Exeger, a Swedish deep-tech company manufacturing fully customisable solar cells. Combining Semtech’s LoRa Edge asset management platform with Exeger’s Powerfoyle solar cell technology significantly extends the battery life of asset tracking and environmental sensing

Thalwil, Switzerland – u-blox, a global provider of positioning and wireless communication technologies and services, announced that NXP Semiconductors has chosen to integrate u-blox positioning and wireless communications modules in their new OrangeBox connectivity domain controller (CDC) development platform.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Disrupt-X, a UAE-based IoT platform provider, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Swiss-based Global IoT company LORIOT to support the implementation of the next generation of IoT solutions using the efficient LoRaWAN infrastructure. The partnership aims to promote IoT solutions mainly in the European Market.

Cognitive Systems Corp. announced that its highly-accurate Wi-Fi Motion detection software will be integrated into MaxLinear’s cutting-edge broadband and access SoCs. Through this partnership, Cognitive Systems’ patented Wi-Fi Motion technology will run on MaxLinear chips, enabling Wi-Fi Sensing applications such as home monitoring, wellness monitoring, and smart home automation.

Tele2 will support EBS with managed IoT connectivity for alarm systems and smart communicators supporting lone worker solutions and home alarms. The partnership for global managed IoT connectivity has run for three years and builds upon an existing relationship that includes managed connectivity through our connectivity management platform 2CONTROL (Cisco IoT Control Centre) and IoT

London, United Kingdom – Schneider Electric, the provider in digital transformation of energy management and automation, continues to lead the way in meeting the challenges of managing hybrid IT infrastructure with the introduction of the EcoStruxure micro data centre R-Series 42U Medium Density. By expanding its ruggedised micro data centre offer, Schneider Electric is providing IT professionals and

6G-Datacast.tv, LLC has developed and patented a transformational communication protocol by which a serial data stream is pushed to unlimited numbers of clients wirelessly. 6G-Datacast.TV supports and is a part of multiple ATSC 3.0 initiatives and its technology makes good on the standard’s promise of datacasting.

Holland, United States – Velocity, a managed solutions provider with a blue chip customer base, has rolled out a package of hospitality services designed to offer hotels a single source partner for delivering the internet and streaming TV in-room experiences to guests.

Luxembourg – Sisvel International S.A. (Sisvel) is announcing the launch of its cellular IoT (C-IoT) patent pool consisting of 20 patent owners.