Smart Cities

CES 2021 – With providing energy to smart cities with sustainability in mind such as for electric vehicles, All Good Energy (AGE), a Taiwanese startup, has developed All Good Battery Pack, a Li-ion mobility battery pack with edge computing BMS and IoT functionality.

Sequans Communications S.A. announced that its second-generation LTE Cat 1 chip platform, Calliope 2, will soon be sampling. Calliope 2 is designed for the cost-effective support of IoT applications that require VoLTE and a data rate higher than 100 kilobits per second that cannot be supported by LTE-M or NB-IoT technologies.

Internet of Things (IoT) and smart city operator, Connexin is to expand LoRaWAN connectivity across the UK to support the development of national smart networks, claims to be first of its kind.

Smart cities have become more ambitious as budgets increased to trillions of dollars overall, unaffected by Covid-19, according to research by IDTechEx.

Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), announced that its ME310G1-WW and ME910G1-WW modules are now certified for use on Telstra‘s LTE-M and NB-IoT networks.

5G networks will revolutionise the Internet of Things (IoT). But it will take several years for the technology to cover most of the planet. Thanks to LoRaWAN, you don’t need to wait, says Sergiy Seletsky, IoT practice leader and senior solution architect at Intellias.

As a second wave of Covid-19 causes further economic and social disruption worldwide, data-driven cities, powered by smart infrastructure and solutions, are using data analytics and predictive modelling to help shape their pandemic response to limit loss of life and minimise economic disruption.

Sensoneo a global provider of smart waste management solutions, has announced the first European capital with whom they will partner on a large-scale deployment using their innovative waste management solution. As of spring of 2021, the Czech capital will pilot collecting waste via automated routes able to dynamically respond to changes in waste production and

Terbine and Flash Labs Corporation U.S. affiliate of Hyundai BS&C announced a strategic partnership to bring blockchain based security to sensor data that moves within and between smart cities.

Nozomi Networks Inc., a specialist in operations technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) security, and Chinook Systems, Inc a provider of building automation and facilities consulting and commissioning services, have partnered to provide advanced cybersecurity solutions. The goal is to protect industrial and critical infrastructure facilities across North America.

Chengdu, capital city of Southwest China’s Sichuan province, is working to develop a national pilot zone for advancing next-generation artificial intelligence.

According to a Wireless Broadband Alliance cross-industry survey of service providers, equipment manufacturers and enterprises, almost four out of five (79%) have adopted or plan to adopt the WBA OpenRoaming standard.

Cavli Wireless, a cellular IoT module manufacturer, is bundling Internet of Things (IoT) modules with LTE-M connectivity from Orange Business Services to provide the building blocks of the IoT value chain to its enterprise customers worldwide.

Investors SpaceX, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Baidu, Toyota, Tesla, Hyundai, VW, LG, Apple, and Virgin are involved in smart cities in ways you may not expect. Their involvement spans making complete smart cities from scratch to robot shuttles replacing 10 types of vehicle, vertical take-off taxis, Hyperloop, vertical farming, battery elimination, solar and sensor

Trilliant, a global provider of revolutionary smart communications solutions in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), smart energy and smart city space, has agreed to partner with 1NCE to deliver low-cost cellular connectivity. This is designed to make last mile connections for low data IIoT and smart meter applications.

GeoSpock has announced $5.4 million (€4.60 million) in additional funding. This is to accelerate the development and adoption of what is claimed to be the fastest, most scalable database on the market. This strategic investment round brings the total GeoSpock has raised to date to more than $32 million (€27.28 million).