Internet of Things

Among the highlights of this year’s M2M Summit in Dusseldorf, Germany (October 5-6) will be talks from Brigitte Zypries, Scott Amyx, and Eric Goodness, the M2M Alliance’s Academic Day, as well as an evening event that reportedly offers good networking opportunities.

Centralite Systems has introduced a line of connected home products available directly to consumers.

SOMFY has joined the ZigBee Alliance at the Promoter level and accepted a seat on its Board of Directors.

New research findings suggest that 78% of UK consumer technology and hardware vendors expect the Internet of Things (IoT) to have a significant impact on their ability to gather customer insight data across the supply chain.

According to a new research report from the M2M/IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the global third party Internet of Things (IoT) platform market increased 36% to € 610 million in 2015.

The Machine to Machine (M2M) / Internet of Things (IoT) sector is currently a Babel of proprietary systems and competing standards. However, several important consortia are working on standards and shared platforms to help combat fragmentation and the preservation of unwarranted data siloes.

Machines on the plant floor will soon actively identify problems, determine a course of action, execute, and measure those results – all without human interaction.

SIGFOX, a provider of dedicated communications service for the Internet of Things (IoT), and UnaBiz, an IoT network operator in Asia, have joined French and Taiwanese officials announcing creation of a global Internet of Things testbed in Taiwan.

Arxan Technologies, a provider of application attack prevention and self-protection solutions, has closed the first half of 2016 with “record-breaking corporate growth, strong industry recognition and product innovation”.

By all accounts, the vision of the connected home is still alive and well. That futuristic home where appliances are self-aware and interconnectivity between the physical and online worlds is seamless. But despite all the hype and grandiose predictions, that vision is still a bit blurry.

Verizon Communications Inc. and Fleetmatics Group PLC have entered an agreement under which Verizon will acquire Fleetmatics, a global provider of fleet and mobile workforce management solutions.

Seebo, a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, dedicated to helping companies plan, develop and integrate smart and connected products across a variety of industries, has launched its new virtualised hardware environment, the “Simulator” as part of its new IoT Creator.

The Pangea IoT Workshop, a platform that aims to explain how the Internet of Things (IoT) works in an accessible manner, has been launched.

A water treatment company is using the Internet of Things (IoT) to command an army of bacteria in the battle against polluted winery wastewater.

It has been predicted that an incredible 6 billion people will have a smartphone by 2020. In our pocket, we possess a supercomputer, millions of times more powerful than all of NASA’s combined computing capability during the Apollo space missions.

CyanConnode, a provider in narrowband RF mesh networks for Omni Internet of Things communications, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Enzen Global Ltd.