Libelium enables smart logistics offering realtime tracking and sensing of goods

Libelium has released new Smart Logistics modules for Waspmote sensor nodes that provide position, sensing and transmission capabilities to enable real time tracking, via 3G, GPS and GPRS. These new modules for Waspmote and Plug & Sense! devices can read geolocation coordinates, collect extra sensor data such as humidity, luminosity, CO, CO2, temperature, or vibration,

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Medically proven: Turkcell’s mHealth device shows significant health benefits in diabetes study

Turkey’s company Turkcell and Turkey’s oldest academic institution Istanbul University has announced the initial results of a medical diabetes study carried out with mobile health solution Turkcell Healthmeter. The study is among the first known global examples of an operator-developed mobile health product that has successfully produced significant health benefits in a scientific research carried

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Protect Australia selects Essence’s WeR@HomeTM connected life home automation and security solution

Protect Australia is offering Essence Smart Living – WeR@HomeTM solution as an integral part of its consumer offerings. Protect Australia has been a leader in home security in Australia for the past 25 years. Essence offers cloud-based IoT/M2M connected-living technologies, including professional home security, smart home and smart care solutions.

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Telefonica O2 Ireland’s Brian D’Arcy to lead Anam Technologies Managed Services

Anam Technologies, has appointed Brian D’Arcy as global VP of Managed Services.  Brian joins Anam Technologies from his position of Commercial director-O2 Media at Telefonica O2 Ireland.

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Openwave Mobility wins at CTIA MobITs Awards

Openwave Mobility, a software innovator enabling operators to manage and monetise mobile data, has announced that the CTIA has named its operator app, MOTIFY, a winner at the MobITs Awards for Customer Experience Management (CEM).

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Maingate sets out vision for the smart energy sector

Maingate, has signaled its intention to become a key player in the smart energy sector. By combining M2M connectivity with cloud-based data management, Maingate believes it can enable the decentralised and demand side solutions that will sit at the heart of emerging energy ecosystems.

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Concerns grow that IoT is not secure in long term as Beecham report urges industry to protect end users

London, UK – There is growing concern within the IoT sector that security demands our urgent attention if the industry is to avert a crisis in confidence. Unless the Internet of Things (IoT ) is made secure from end-to-end for all users, both at consumer and enterprise levels, we risk seeing IoT appearing in disaster

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SIMalliance to host NFC-Security workshop to help banks and service providers make the right choices

SIMalliance, the global non-profit industry association which simplifies secure element (SE) implementation to drive secure mobile services, will bring together a number of experts from across the NFC ecosystem in October. It will host an interactive workshop designed to help banks and other secure NFC service providers – such as merchants and transit operators –

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LTE will provide the connectivity for the connected car, says Machina Research

Connected car installations have thus far been dominated by low-bandwidth 2G connectivity. But this is set to change; by 2023 LTE will account for 60% of all automotive mobile connections, according to Jeremy Green of Machina Research. By that time 2G connections will be a small and rapidly diminishing proportion of connections, and LTE will

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Logic PD joins Telefónica’s M2M global partner programme

Logic PD, a product innovation and realisation company for connected devices, has partnered with Telefónica, to provide customers with global wireless coverage for Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and the ability to bring connected products to market quicker.

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Gemalto’s Cinterion M2M technology leverages the Sprint network

Gemalto has announces a new initiative to enhance M2M connectivity across the United States with the certification of the Gemalto Cinterion® PCS3 module on the Sprint network. This new product is designed to provide superior efficiently in applications such as mHealth monitoring, fleet and asset tracking as well as smart home solutions.

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Masternaut announces driver navigation and communications device for enterprise telematics

Masternaut, has launched Masternaut Pro, a new driver navigation & communication device which is used in conjunction with Masternaut Connect to provide users and businesses an all-in-one solution for real time telematics, communication, and navigation.

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Kizy Tracking presents its new tracker at POST EXPO 2014 for the first time in Europe

Thanks to a device smaller than a smartphone, any postal shipment can now be tracked in real-time through an online platform. Until now, these kinds of solutions were expensive and limited to high value goods. Kizy Tracking offers an innovative solution with similar functionalities for a cost less than one-tenth the price of competing GPS solutions on the

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South Korea’s Ecube Labs uses Vodafone M2M platform to take ‘smart green’ technology global

Ecube Labs, a South Korea based green venture established in 2011 in waste management industry, has announced its plans to further expand operations into five markets globally including the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Germany and the Netherlands. The company is working with Vodafone’s global M2M business to enable its global expansion plans.

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Orange Business Services launches worldwide location services for machine-to-machine SIM cards

The new Machine to Machine (M2M) worldwide geolocation offering from Orange Business Services provides real-time location tracking of corporate assets and equipment anywhere in the world via cellular networks, regardless of the operator.

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Consortium pilots advanced metering infrastructure with Indian state-owned utility UGVCL

Cyan, the integrated system and software design company delivering mesh based flexible wireless solutions for utility metering and lighting control, announces that a bidding consortium of 5 companies including Cyan, has deployed a proof of concept pilot of 60 meters to demonstrate Cyan’s CyLec Advanced Metering Infrastructure (“AMI”) technology with the Indian state-owned utility, Uttar

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