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Aeris, a global Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions provider, has announced the closing of the purchase of Ericsson’s IoT Accelerator (IoT-A) and Connected Vehicle Cloud (CVC) businesses and related assets. Ericsson will establish a small stake in the new Aeris.

The capabilities of the combined IoT businesses will serve thousands of customers across a wide range of industries including healthcare, fleet, utilities and automotive safely connecting tens of millions of IoT devices and providing intelligent solutions enabling IoT programmes to scale and succeed, everywhere. The Aeris connected vehicle business will help a growing list of

SIMO Corporation, the parent company behind Skyroam, a portable Wi-Fi device brand, announces the establishment of a new IoT & B2B business unit, with Ludovic Lassauce, former head of mobile and Internet of Things in the Asia-Pacific region for Tata Communications, appointed as CEO.

Bridge Alliance is the world’s first mobile alliance to offer consumer eSIM remote subscription management, optimised for the latest generation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices across its members’ footprint in the Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa.

IoT was highly visible at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016, with IoT devices or services – from connected cows to connected toothbrushes – appearing on nearly every stand. While there was no unifying theme, we believe a number of developments point to the continued maturation of IoT.

Security providers Gemalto and Bridge Alliance are demonstrating a solution for multi-country deployment of IoT devices at Mobile World C ongress , using Gemalto’s LinqUs On-Demand Connectivity (ODC) subscription management solution.

Bridge Alliance and the Global M2M Association (GMA) announced their new partnership and the live demonstration of their advanced Multi-Domestic Service.