IPv6

The implementation of IPv6 is the next step in the evolution of the internet, says London-based Heficed whichprovides full-range services for IP lease, monetisation, and management services. However, the company believes it will still be a long road ahead before it is fully adopted, and the pace at which the market is developing dictates the

HM Power, a system integrator based in Sweden, provides smart metering and smart grid solutions to virtually all Swedish utilities. The company has an established customer base of approximately 650,000 smart meters and now has approximately 30% of the Ring Main Unit and advanced fault indication equipment market in Sweden. Following a Parliamentary Bill mandating

ZTE Corporation, has announced that, with the Guangdong branch of China Mobile (Guangdong Mobile), it has successfully accomplished China Mobile’s first NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT) field test in Guangzhou.

Thingsquare has announce the availability of an IoT Sensortag starter kit, in collaboration with Texas Instruments and Weptech. This, says Jarle Boe, development kit manager at Texas Instruments and founder of the Sensortag platform, is the world’s first Internet of Things (IoT) system that combines remote connectivity through IPv6 meshing with proximity detection via Bluetooth beacons.

CyanConnode, a provider of narrowband RF networks for Internet of Things (IoT) communications, has secured a contract from utility provider E.ON for a Panmesh smart metering pilot project in Sweden. This is in addition to a new order worth EUR230,000 from Landis+Gyr for a project in Finland.

In part 1 of this article we looked at how new ultralow-power RF transceiver technologies are bringing class-leading range performance and high resilience to interference sources.

The bad news, says Nick Booth, is that this could create an opportunity for the Internet of Fiends.

HGI, an organisation for publishing requirements for the digital home, has published an updated specification for improving Quality of Service (QoS) through the Home Gateway

London, UK. October 29, 2012 — A volatile global economy is making investors increasingly cautious and risk-averse about their portfolio investments. This is translating into a restraint for start-ups in ICT

Stockholm, Sweden. September 20, 2012 — Thingsquare, a pioneering provider of open source software for the Internet of Things (IoT), has launched Thingsquare Mist, a standards-based mesh networking platform for smart cities and buildings.

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise has announced significant updates to its VitalQIP IP Address Management (IPAM) solution. This ensures business continuity by allowing customers to “effortlessly automate the migration to the IPv6 internet address system”, says the company.

BLOG. August 1, 2012 – I remember the movie Minority Report (2002, pictured) writes Fabrizio Bozzarelli, Advantech Europe Business Development Manager, where in the future world there will be automatically controlled traffic.

London, UK. June 6, 2012 — Today sees thousands of internet service providers (ISPs) and websites around the world permanently enable Internet Protocol version 6 for their products and services as part of the World IPv6 Launch, organised by the Internet Society.

Oulu, Finland – Software provider, Sensinode Ltd, has released its NanoService™ Platform, a new scalable, back-end management platform. It is designed to enable the rapid deployment of challenging M2M systems by providing efficient management of nodes and their resources,

Arris Group’s Servassure Advanced performance management software has been upgraded to handle IPv4, IPv6 and dual-stack devices for data collection as well as real-time requests.

With traditional revenue streams like Voice getting saturated in most markets around the world, M2M holds the promise of generating new avenues for revenue generation.