Ventyx Outage Lifecycle Management named Overall Winner at European Utility Week Product Innovation Awards

Ventyx, an ABB company, has announced the company’s Outage Lifecycle Management (OLM) solution has been named the “Overall Winner” in the Product Innovation Awards at the European Utility Week conference and exhibition in Amsterdam, where more than 350 solution providers from across the globe displayed their solutions.

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Laird accelerates time to market for embedding wireless connectivity

Laird, has signed a distribution partnership with Future Electronics. Through its dedicated wireless business unit, Future Connectivity Solutions, Future will promote and sell Laird Embedded Wireless Solution’s extensive line of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy and Proprietary wireless modules across North America, Europe, and APAC.

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Pioneering oneM2M specifications come to life in showcase event demonstrations

oneM2M, the global standards initiative for M2M and the Internet of Things (IoT), will present a unique series of live demonstrations and presentations at its first showcase event on Tuesday 9th December 2014, in Sophia Antipolis, France. The demonstrations  focus on real-life capabilities of the oneM2M specifications, as applied to smart homes, connected cars, home

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Maingate launches new Connect Flex service to help customers avoid MNO lock-in

All cellular-based M2M requires the participation of a mobile network operator (MNO). The MNO provides the connectivity as well as the SIM card and hence owns and controls the SIM card, which is the key to the M2M connectivity.

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SATO selects LogMeIn to enable its next generation of IoT-connected printers

LogMeIn has announced that SATO has selected LogMeIn’s Xively Internet of Things (IoT) platform to build next-generation connectivity into its printers. SATO, a provider of barcode printing, labeling, and EPC/RFID solutions, is also working with LogMeIn’s IoT experts to maximise the business value of its IoT-connected products and accelerate their time to market. As a

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Giesecke & Devrient wins Juniper Future Mobile Gold Award

Juniper Research has awarded its prestigious “Future Mobile Gold Award” to Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) for „making an outstanding contribution to the future of the mobile contactless payments market”. For Edgar Salib, senior vice president and head of the Financial Institutions division at G&D, this award confirms G&D’s position as “an innovative technology and valuable

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Aquarius Spectrum selects Telit modules to provide alerts in water leak detection

Telit Wireless Solutions, has announced that Aquarius Spectrum has selected the Telit HE910 module for its innovative water leak detection system, which is based on fixed, always-on, correlating sensors.

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Tollgrade’s new “Power Sensor” monitors the impact of renewables and helps improve grid resiliency in Europe

Tollgrade Communications, Inc. has announced the availability of its LightHouse® Medium Voltage (MV) Power Sensor for Europe. Today, European grid operators are under increasing pressure to meet low carbon and efficiency mandates. As renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are brought into the aging grid, they have the ability to disrupt grid operations,

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Stream’s IoT-X PaaS chosen by Orion Security Network to manage LPRN devices

The Orion Security network, has chosen Stream’s IoT-X next generation Connectivity Enablement Platform and N+1 backbone infrastructure to engage the LPRN marketplace as a fully managed end to end solution.

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Renesas Electronics eases safety, security, and connectivity for the car of the future

Renesas Electronics, is easing the design complexities involved in developing self-driving car and other driver assistance systems that can offer users with a safe, secure, and convenient driving experience. The new RH850/P1x-C Series, a high-end version of the RH850/P1x Series of 32-bit automotive microcontrollers (MCUs), is designed for sensor fusion, gateway, and advanced chassis system

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u-blox LISA-C210 CDMA450 module targets smart metering and smart grid applications

Swiss-based u‑blox, has announces the LISA-C210 CDMA450 1xRTT voice/data module. It is ideally suited to M2M applications, and in particular Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and smart power grid applications. Approval is in progress with selected mobile network operators in the Netherlands.

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Secure NFC/RFID tag authenticator with energy harvesting protects sensitive data transfer between master and slave devices

Designers can now perform secure wireless data communication on their embedded systems without needing the host microcontroller, but by simply using a single MAX66242 DeepCover® Secure Authenticator from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.

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Gemalto simplifies global rollout for Swiss connected watch

Gemalto, has been selected by Limmex, a Swiss provider of personal safety solutions, to enable M2M connectivity for a revolutionary emergency watch in a pilot project with mobile operator Swisscom. The Limmex watch supports people with particular care or security needs such as children, VIPs, lonely workers, the elderly or individuals with health problems by triggering

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Tele2 and Cubic Telecom announce M2M partnership

Tele2 AB , and Cubic Telecom, has announced that they are entering a strategic partnership to provide global M2M/IoT solutions to companies in the PC OEM and automotive space.

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Itron extends ITRON RIVA™ edge intelligence technology to OpenWay® smart grid solution

Itron, Inc. has announced the integration of Itron Riva technology into its OpenWay smart grid solution. By integrating the distributed intelligence and adaptive communications of Itron Riva technology into its OpenWay smart grid solution, Itron is delivering a revolutionary communications technology along with new computing capabilities for meters and other grid devices at the edge

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Cubic Telecom signs global agreement with China Unicom to deliver M2M solutions

Cubic Telecom, has announced that it has signed a global agreement with China Unicom, to provide machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions to enterprises across mainland China and Hong Kong.

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