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The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) public cloud market grew 31% in 2016 to total $22.1 billion (€18.77 billion), up from $16.8 billion (€14.27 billion) in 2015, according to Gartner, Inc.. Amazon was the No. 1 vendor in the IaaS market in 2016, followed by Microsoft and Alibaba.

Sierra Wireless, the provider of fully integrated device-to-cloud solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the industry’s first global LTE-Advanced Pro cellular modules, enabling the world’s fastest IoT applications for mobile computing, networking, and industrial M2M.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the organisation transforming business and society by accelerating the adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and oneM2M, the global IoT standards initiative, announced they have agreed to work together to contribute to the creation and development of the Industrial Internet.

Startupbootcamp IoT announced the nine startups selected to join the second cohort of its London-based accelerator program kicking off in October. These nine startups, from all around the world, are developing Internet of Things (IoT) devices that tackle problems in diverse applications from factory automation and smart farming to driver safety and cybersecurity.

At the third New-Generation Internet Infrastructure Forum in Beijing, China Telecom Beijing Research Institute, China Electric Power Research Institute and Huawei said they would cooperate on the joint basic foresight innovation project about 5G power slicing technology.

Taoglas, a provider of IoT and M2M antenna products, announced at Mobile World Congress Americas that it is launching a new RF Filter division specifically developed for Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile applications.

Renesas Electronics, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Cogent Embedded Inc., a embedded software provider to the automotive industry, announced their joint development of a 3D surround view solution to assist drivers during parking or low speed maneuvers.

Huawei and Rohde & Schwarz announced the successful demonstration of 1.2Gbps LTE-A-Pro downlink throughput, using Huawei’s Kirin 970 SoC, the industry’s first smartphone SoC to support Category 18(1.2Gbps).

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2017, Huawei launched its X-Gen Wi-Fi Solution, enabling a three-fold bandwidth increase and four-fold increase in the number of concurrent access users.

Today, almost all industrial organisations are striving to embark on the next stage of digital evolution — to use the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), aimed at the analysis of big data and at improving production efficiency and the reliability of work and productivity throughout the supply chain.

Advantech, an embedded computing provider, announces its latest IoT gateway aimed at empowering industrial IoT solutions by UTX-3117 fanless & extended-temp embedded box.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is arguably set to be the biggest driver of productivity and growth in the next decade, with Accenture estimating IoT could add $14.2 trillion (€11.87 trillion) to the global economy by 2030. But despite the hype and excitement, right now we seem to be a very long way from realising that

German rail company, Deutsche Bahn AG, is making its data available to start-up businesses and SMEs as part of Data Pitch, a new European Commission-funded initiative which is supporting open innovation with data.

Antenova is to launch Robusta part no. SR4G031, a new GNSS antenna for metal surfaces – at the GSMA MWC Americas show. The antenna operates in the 1559-1609 MHz bands and is designed for tracking metal objects and smart city applications.

The IoT may have as great an impact on society as the industrial revolution, computers and the Internet have had. Maybe even more.

Critical data from oneM2M’s successful smart city deployments will be used in the WISE-IoT Consortium’s IoT4Tourism Hackathon. The Hackathon will be held at the IEEE ICCE Berlin Conference, in conjunction with the IFA consumer electronics fair, which will be held September 3-4, 2017.