No let up in M&As as British Gas acquires AlertMe for £65m and ARM buys Dutch IoT security firm Offspark

London & Cambridge, UK – AlertMe announced on Friday it has agreed the sale of the company to British Gas (part of the Centrica plc group) in a deal said to be worth UK£65 million (US$100 million). This news follows on the heels of ARM’s purchase of Offspark, a Dutch IoT communications security company.

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M2M supergroup formed by ARM in Cambridge

Cambridge superchip designer ARM has launched a new UK powergroup to create a technology blueprint for how the 50 million connected devices expected worldwide by 2020 can work together.

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AlertMe’s online and smartphone remote heating control now available from British Gas

London, UK. July 9, 2012 — Smart home technology company, AlertMe, has today announced that its online and smartphone-enabled Remote Heating Control service is available in the UK exclusively from British Gas.

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