M2M platform

PodsystemM2M, multi-network data SIMs for the M2M and IoT industries, has announced that its Signal Multi Network SIM cards have been selected by MyFamily Mobile for their wearable, children-specific voice and data messaging and smart locator anti-kidnap devices.

Eurotech, a supplier of embedded systems, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) platforms and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, has announced that they have reinforced their technological collaboration with WebRatio, a supplier of model-driven low-code rapid application development platform and services, inventor of the IFML®, an OMG Standard.

Designers now have a single platform to develop their own IO-Link master and multiple industrial sensors. The MAXREFDES79# from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. allows manufacturers to bring IO-Link factory automation designs to market faster.

Remote sensing in agriculture is not new, it dates back decades. But recent technological advances in smart sensors and wireless networks are bringing new levels of monitoring into raising livestock.

Lantiq, a supplier of broadband access and home networking technologies and the startup  IOLITE, a Spin-off of DAI-Labor (Technical University of Berlin), present the smart home platform IOLITE. The platform is designed as an open and fully interoperable ecosystem. It allows devices of all standards and kinds, e.g. sensors, actuators, or cameras to be integrated

u-blox, wireless and positioning modules and chips, has announces TOBY-L280, the LTE Category 4 rugged module in an LGA package that supports FDD-LTE in frequency band 28. Band 28 is now in commercial use in Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand, with further rollouts planned throughout the Asia Pacific region, Brazil and Argentina. Capable of download

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

The Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 are currently top of the list for both the digital economy and traditional industrial sectors. Indeed, localisation technology has become essential for either of these realms. In an interconnected world, constant and reliable localisation is crucial to the communications taking place among countless “things”. Satellite navigation is thus

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

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

Vodafone and PHT Corporation, the provider of technologies used to collect electronic data for clinical research from patients, are working together to connect the PHT electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA) system to Vodafone’s global M2M network. Using Vodafone’s global M2M network, PHT provides pharmaceutical trial sponsors real-time access to patient data enabling them to collect

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

One of the recurring problems of the whole convergence sector throughout its history has been that one part of the complex value-technology chains involved always – and inevitably – lags behind developments in the rest of the infrastructure and systems. As a result, potential commercial and personal benefits remain unrealised, money and time are wasted on ultimately fruitless integration

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

LogMeIn, Inc. has introduced Rescue Lens, a new video-aided support capability aimed at addressing the rapidly expanding world of connected products – and the new needs of today’s connected customer. As part of LogMeIn Rescue, the premier professional remote support solution, Rescue Lens delivers on LogMeIn’s new Support-of-Things initiative. Using a secure, live camera feed

New challenges demand new end-to-end strategies – not just more technologies, says Oozi Cats, CEO of Telit Communications.