Utilities
KORE’s CEO Brisbourne elected chairman of IoT trade group, IMC
January 14, 2015. London (Business Wire) — The International M2M Council (IMC), said to be the fastest-growing trade group serving the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine communications (M2M) sector,
Read moreTrade-offs in M2M product development
Long before the phrases M2M and the Internet of Things came to wider attention, we were already making machines talk to each other, says Dunstan Power of ByteSnap Design. Early
Read moreSilver Spring Networks to buy utility data analytics solution provider Detectent for US$12m cash
Redwood City, CA, USA – Silver Spring Networks, Inc. has agreed to acquire privately held Detectent, Inc., a provider of utility data analytics solutions for approximately US$12 million in cash.
Read more£1m boost to companies leading the charge towards the Internet of Things
Innovate UK, Tech City UK and Cambridge Wireless have jointly announced the seven winners of their flagship £1 million Internet of Things Launchpad competition.
Read moreMTS gives positive report on Russia’s machine-to-machine communications market in 2014
According to estimates by Russian mobile network operator, MTS over the first nine months of 2014 the country’s machine-to-machine communications (M2M) market increased by 14% to reach 5.5 million SIM
Read moreNorth Dakota’s Bismarck shows how to get smart on water infrastructure, says analyst
Water infrastructure and management play a key role in the development of smart cities, and smart cities of the future must intelligently address the related areas of water and energy
Read moreSmart energy and business transformation concerns dominate European Utility Week
This year’s European Utility Week conference and exhibition kicked off on November 4, with almost 10,000 delegates from more than 250 utilities attending. Two key themes were present wherever you
Read moreNext IoT innovation may come from new hackathon-incubator hybrids like the NTx App Challenge
The inaugural NTx Apps Challenge has awarded US$80,000 to five teams of web entrepreneurs who created sustainability apps to address four key municipal growth challenges; water conservation, waste and recycling,
Read moreMobile industry embraces new GSMA Embedded SIM specification to speed Internet of Things growth
October 13, 2014, Dubai, UAE: Leading mobile operators, SIM vendors and module manufacturers are now deploying solutions that comply with a new specification, GSMA Embedded SIM, designed to accelerate provisioning
Read moreDo IT security professionals have the tools and CxO support to prevent cyber-attacks on the IoT?
According to several IoT industry analysts, IT security professionals are not confident that they can prevent cyber-attacks on the Internet of Things. Not only do companies still need to get
Read moreWhat will make a utility smart?
Maingate Solutions was founded in 1998 as an M2M service provider (a mobile virtual network operator) offering machine-to-machine communication services to enterprises and utilities in the Nordic region, while also serving industrial,
Read moreRacoWireless enables rapid IoT deployments with the launch of its Application Marketplace
Internet of Things (IoT) service provider, RacoWireless has announced the launch of its Application Marketplace, an app store designed to empower companies worldwide to quickly build, enhance and sell connected
Read moreEstonia learns lessons from its smart metering plan
Ahead of his presentation at the upcoming European Utility Week event in Amsterdam, Mait Rahi, project manager and head of the Smart Metering Programme at Elektrilevi Estonia, says that outsourcing
Read moreSurge in smart meter installations to support European, meter data management market
Although the scope for meter data management (MDM) in Europe is currently limited, the market is expected to take off in the foreseeable future. The main driver for the adoption
Read moreScottish Power wires not-so-smart meter while npower provides dumb billing
If you go away this summer and return to find an unexpectedly large phone or utility bill, spare a thought for Nigel and Linda Brotherton of Roughlee, UK who recently
Read moreQIVICON wins innovation prize and gains new partners
Bonn, Germany – International management consultancy Frost & Sullivan has announced smart home platform QIVICON as the winner of its European Visionary Innovation Leadership Award, naming QIVICON as the most innovative solution
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