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ZTE Corporation, has become an official member of the board of directors of the LoRa® Alliance.

Arqiva, Webthings and Flexeye has announced the launch of Smart Neighbourhood@Broomhill – a ground breaking demonstrator project with River Clyde Homes (RCH) and led by HouseMark.

Recently at Intertraffic, Libelium presented the new version of Waspmote Plug&Sense! Smart Parking, the solution for Smart Cities that allows citizens to detect available parking spots.

Speaking at The Symposium on Security for Asia Network (SyScan) in Singapore, Rob Miller, senior security consultant at MWR InfoSecurity, has detailed how to build LoRa systems that are provably secure against cyber-attack.

EMnify, the privately funded Berlin-based global cellular M2M and IoT connectivity company, has signed on Lars Singbartl, former partner and head of Warburg Pincus Germany, as its latest investor.

Inmarsat, a provider of global mobile satellite communications services, is partnering with Actility, providers in Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN), and a founding member of the LoRa Alliance, to enable an end-to-end IoT solution to connect assets over public and private networks, anywhere in the world.

Machina Research, a provider of strategic market intelligence on the Internet of Things, launched a new market tracker to follow the developments in Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks.

Semtech Corporation, a supplier of analogue and mixed-signal semiconductors, will demonstrate a LoRaWAN™ Internet of Things (IoT) network deployed by Digimondo, a subsidiary of E.ON, an international energy supplier, at Embedded World 2016 on February 23-25 in Nuremberg, Germany.

Inmarsat has joined the LoRa Alliance, dedicated to developing a global standard for the Internet of Things (IoT).

Cisco has moved to snap up privately-held Jasper Technologies with a planned acquisition for US$1.4 billion. Frost & Sullivan believes this to be as much as 20 times the company’s annual revenue in 2015, says Frost & Sullivan’s Sheridan Nye.

A fundamental change happens to businesses when they enter the world of the Internet of Things: they transform from being a product business (manufacturing and selling an item) into a connected-service business.

Alright so we’re a couple of weeks into 2016 so I think I’m still within the prediction grace period? If you haven’t already you can read my review of 2015 on our blog and see how my predictions from 2015 stacked up.

The need for a narrowband wide area network devoted to IoT was obvious but it is only recently it has become obvious for many.

Inevitably in early January thoughts turn to what the new year has in store for the world of IoT. In the next few days we will be publishing both our research agenda and our predictions for 2016. Below are some of the key themes that will dominate both.

WAVIoT has released full duplex LPWAN connectivity to the market.

451 Research has released its 2016 IoT Preview Report, highlighting the key challenges facing this emerging sector.