Hodi Technologies selects Greenvity’s Turnkey IoT solution for next-generation smart LED lighting products

Hodi Technologies, has selected Greenvity Communications’ Internet of Things (IoT) turnkey solutions for multiple Hodi smart lighting products. In addition, Greenvity and Hodi will collaborate to develop future products focused on controlled lighting and smart metering applications.

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ParStream and PLAT.ONE to demonstrate the industry’s first end-to-end IoT analytics solution for Fog Computing

ParStream, the IoT analytics company, and PLAT.ONE, the first Enterprise-Grade IoT & M2M application platform, has announced its joint demo at the Internet of Things World Forum, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) conference focused on IoT applications, IoT solutions and the leading companies behind the IoT movement. The Internet of Things World Forum will

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Rogers commits $4m to accelerate growth of IoT in Canada

Rogers Communications, has announced a funding commitment of approximately $4 million to Wavefront, Canada’s Centre of Excellence for Commercialisation and Research, to accelerate the growth of machine-to-machine (M2M), the Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless businesses in Canada. Over the next five years, Rogers will offer financial resources, technology tools, training and mentorship programms to

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Numerex announces remote solutions for oil and gas field automation

Numerex, has announced the launch of its AVIDwireless™ portfolio of monitoring solutions preconfigured for Oil & Gas well sites. AVIDwireless, a Numerex Solution, provides cost-effective, wireless M2M solutions for managing complex, interdependent, multi-device industrial M2M deployments. This new offering fits any size remote well site, from small marginal wells to large multi-location fields.

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Rajant expands market reach with launch of new channel partner programme

Rajant Corporation, has announced that it is launching a channel partner programme to grow its customer base worldwide.

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New federal funding enables Wavefront to expand support to mobile and Internet of Things entrepreneurs nationally

Wavefront, has received funding of up to $9.5M over the next five years through the Canada Accelerator and Incubator Programme (CAIP). The funding, announced at an event in Vancouver, will enable Wavefront to expand the reach and capacity of its programms for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the mobile and Internet of Things sectors.

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UK’s South West Water invests in fuel-saving technology

South West Water, has invested in Lightfoot®, the in-cab driver efficiency system on a new fleet of Peugeot vans to cut fuel consumption and reduce CO2 emissions.

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Telit joins forces with Google

Telit Wireless Solutions, has announced a collaboration with Google Cloud Platform to launch the first IoT Big Data Challenge, a competition aimed at promoting and accelerating innovation around the Internet of Things.

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IoT application platforms make steady gains in 2014 as GE shakes up market by opening Predix to third parties, says ABI Research

New market forecasts from ABI Research show that the revenues from the Internet of Things (IoT) application enablement platform (AEP)s grew by 28% in 2014. By end-2020, the revenue base will exceed US$1.4bn, led by applications for remote monitoring and control.

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IBM, Cisco score highest in Navigant Research assessment of smart city technology providers

A new Leaderboard Report from Navigant Research examines the strategy and execution of 16 leading smart city suppliers, including vendor profiles, ratings, and rankings, with the goal of providing industry participants with an objective assessment of these companies’ relative strengths and weaknesses in the growing global smart city market.

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Rockwell and AT&T to connect businesses to remote assets, machinery

Rockwell Automation and AT&T are collaborating to improve remote asset utilisation and connected machine management. The companies plan to deliver cellular solutions that help enable Rockwell Automation customers to securely collect, manage and take action on data from industrial equipment located in plants and remote sites around the globe.

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Infineon launches ARM®-based embedded power family for smart motor control in automotive applications; samples available

Infineon Technologies AG  has announced an ARM®-based Embedded Power family of bridge drivers offering an unmatched level of integration to address the growing trend towards intelligent motor control for a wide range of automotive applications. As an industry first Infineon integrates on one single chip a high-performance microcontroller using the ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor, as well

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Mobile payment focus is back to NFC rather than cloud-based solution

In February 2014 during the Mobile World Congress event, Visa and Mastercard announced that the both firms will support Host Card Emulation (HCE) initiative in order to help the take up of NFC services. PayPal entering the physical payment world with a wallet and Apple’s new iPhone 6 supporting NFC features with the Apple Pay

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The M2M device connections and revenue: worldwide forecast 2014–2024

Machine-to-machine (M2M) represents a strong growth market across various industry segments. The market will grow to 3.4bn connections worldwide by 2024, at a CAGR of 19%. Security and fleet management represent significant growth areas. This report presents the update to our forecasts for M2M connections and revenue worldwide.

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ETSI and GCF sign Memorandum of Understanding

ETSI and the Global Certification Forum have signed a Memorandum of Understanding formalising a collaborative relationship that has existed between the two organisations since GCF was founded in 1999.

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Orange Business Services positioned as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Machine-to-Machine Services

Orange Business Services has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the first edition of the GartnerMagic Quadrant for Managed Machine-to-Machine Services. The report evaluated 13 managed machine-to-machine (M2M) service providers, who collectively manage over 70m cellular  M2M connections.

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