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Grandcentrix, a Vodafone company and a Nordic Semiconductor design and solution partner, is using Nordic’s nRF9160 low power system-in-package (SiP) with integrated LTE-M (long term evolution for machines) /NB-IoT modem and GNSS at the heart of its ‘Vodafone Asset Solar’ asset tracker. The asset tracker employs a photovoltaic (‘solar’) panel charging a 3.6 V, 1100 mAh NiMH

ThunderSoft, a provider of operating system technologies and edge-to-cloud products and solutions announced its modernising firmware over the air (FOTA) solution with AWS IoT Core, a service that allows customers to connect billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices without managing infrastructure, and now this modernised FOTA solution is available in AWS Marketplace. With this modernisation,

Toshiba has added new products ‘M3H group (2)’ to the ‘M3H group’ of the 32-bit microcontroller product group TXZ+ Family Advanced Class equipped with Cortex-M3 using the 40nm process.

Surprisingly, reliability is not the most important priority for most IoT platform vendors, but it’s incredibly important for enterprise customers. Reliability is defined in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary as, “the extent to which an experiment, test, or measuring procedure yields the same results on repeated trials.”

The Kudelski Group, the provider in digital security, and u‑blox, a provider in positioning and wireless communication technologies for the automotive, industrial and consumer markets, announced the signing of an MOU to bring premium-grade security to IoT devices.

Lantronix, Inc., a global provider of secure data access and management solutions for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), announced the launch of its xPico 200 embedded IoT gateways.

Sierra Wireless, the provider of fully integrated device-to-cloud solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the BX Series Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo modules with built-in cloud services and security features.

Athens International Airport (AIA), in Greece, has increased the number of passengers by more than 10% in the last year. Approximately 20 million passengers went through its gates in 2016 setting a new traffic record for Athens.

LTE for IoT chipmaker Sequans Communications S.A. announced that the first Huawei module based on Sequans’ Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT platform is now available.

Altair Semiconductor, a provider of LTE chipsets, announced that samples of its new dual-mode FourGee-1210 CAT-1/CAT-M chipset will be available later this year, enabling a smooth transition to the next standard of Cellular IoT networks.

Altair Semiconductor chipsets are to power a new set of LTE modules that will help businesses lower costs and improve device performance for a broad range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

CALLUP, a provider of Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Value Added Services (VAS) solutions for the telecom industry since 1999, announced an Internet of Things (IoT) SIM card management system.

Sierra Wireless, announced that Sagemcom, a European communications equipment provider, has selected modules from Sierra Wireless for its smart meters to be deployed by Enexis in the Netherlands.