M2M market

JOT Automation, the supplier of test and production solutions, speeds up the precision assembly of performance-critical components of smart devices and improves the outgoing quality of production by introducing the JOT V4 Assembly Cell. The automated solution enables global consumer brands to ship ever smarter and smaller devices in the time-to-market with superior quality and

Insulin Angel, the smartest medication tracker and commercial product using the relayr stack, has launches on Indiegogo.

Vehicle fleet management in Switzerland: Managed Mobility AG is a joint venture in which Sixt Leasing and Swisscom Managed Mobility –a Swisscom business unit – each have a 50% stake. The launch of Managed Mobility AG sees the introduction of a specialist for all issues relating to fleet management and vehicle fleet optimisation. The new

Australia has set an ambitious national target to integrate smart energy by 2020. Australia’s annual electricity demand grew consistently during the period 1999 to 2009 by 2.5%. Experts believe that, Smart Grid systems produce multiple utilities and benefits. The overall societal benefit of their proposed Smart Grid strategy is 2 billion dollars over 15 years.

HX360 has announced the four companies selected as finalists in the HX360 Innovation Challenge competition. These companies, selected from an original field of eighty-three entries, will present their solutions live before a judging panel of senior health system executives, HIT executives and venture capitalists during the Innovation Challenge programme at the HX360 inaugural event. The four

The market for automotive machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is accelerating into an era of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) links, car sharing schemes powered by location-based apps, Fit-It-Yourself car telematics enabling usagebased insurance (UBI), and over-the-air (OTA) updates. Jeremy Cowan reports.

Sweden-based HoistLocatel has announced its intention to acquire Swisscom Hospitality Services to create the European powerhouse in the provision of technology solutions to the Hospitality and Healthcare industries. The resulting company, Hoist Group, is set to become the European for convergent IP solutions in these sectors with a strong North American presence.

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OCEASOFT, a provider of sensor-based solutions for monitoring environmental parameters, has announced a unique, single-use temperature-tracking tool whose measurements can be read through isotherm wrapping or container walls via smartphones and tablets using Bluetooth technology.

The City of Santa Fe recently chose Badger Meter’s BEACON smart water meter solution, for full installation across all their water meter endpoints, including both residential and commercial customers. The foundation for the project is a cellular-enabled smart meter, which can be installed and immediately used for the utility’s smart water network applications. The contract

Vodafone customers will soon be able to add bank cards to their Vodafone Wallet and use smartphones to pay for goods and services at contactless terminals, it was announced. Following new agreements with Visa and Carta Worldwide, bank card payments via Vodafone Wallet will be enabled in European markets from the second quarter of 2015

Developing a synchronous, duplex, low-power and long-range M2M wireless network option for multiple applications and markets.

Konekt, developer of IoT toolkits, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Konekt Dash, a cellular development kit for the Internet of Things (IoT). An expansion upon the original Konekt Toolkit, Dash includes the hardware developers need to connect and manage millions of devices via machine to machine (M2M) cellular connection. With unparalleled security features and

GreenRoad, SaaS driver behaviour and fleet performance service provider, has announced that it has raised $26 million in growth capital. The investment round was led by Israel Growth Partners with participation from existing investors Amadeus Capital Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Generation Investment Management and Virgin Green Fund. IGP General Partner Haim Shani has joined

Telstra Health has announced a key development in its health analytics capability with confirmation it has acquired UK based firm Dr Foster.

New research from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group shows that almost half (46%) of consumers think smart home devices will become mainstream within five years. The survey, which looked at US, UK and German consumer attitudes towards the smart home, suggests there is consumer excitement about the potential for smart home implementations.