M2M platform

IBM has announced that it will invest $3 billion over the next four years to establish a new Internet of Things (IoT) unit, and that it is building a cloud-based open platform designed to help clients and ecosystem partners build IoT solutions.

IoT for Business is in phase one of its’ development but phase two and three are waiting in the wings and will enable organisations to transform themselves and achieve a new level of efficiency. They’ll potentially be able to enter new markets, Michael Lynch, the global co-lead of Internet of Things at SAP, tells George Malim.

The Wireless IoT Forum has launched to support and promote the deployment of the Internet of Things worldwide. The Forum has been created to drive the widespread adoption of wireless wide-area networking technologies in both licensed and unlicensed spectrum.

The inaugural Cambridge Wireless Engineering and Technology Conference (CWTEC) yesterday set out to look at whether the wireless industry needs to integrate or differentiate and concluded that it should do both. Industry experts explored the future of the UK’s telecommunications infrastructure, spanning mobile, satellite, TV, IoT and wearable technology, focusing on the impact on licensed

At this year’s CeBIT, Deutsche Telekom launched its Industry 4.0 offering, which enables enterprises to connect their ‘Machines’ quickly and easily to monitor and control their production environment. The package contains everything a ‘Machine’ needs to go online: Hardware, SIM card with data rate plan and access to the “Cloud der Dinge” (Cloud of Things) platform which records

Blue Yonder and Capgemini have announced the launch of a Connected Services Platform.

HID Global®, has announced the commercial availability of HID Trusted Tag® Services, a cloud-based authentication platform that adds trust to “proof of presence” and Internet of Things (IoT) applications using NFC technology. Proven in numerous pilot deployments with HID Global partners, HID Trusted Tag Services provides a comprehensive and easy-to-use secure authentication environment that delivers

New research from market analysts, Juniper Research, has found that annual revenues from connected healthcare and fitness services will approach $2bn by 2019, nearly 6 times the $320m value estimated for this year.

Host card emulation (HCE) mobile payments, Bell ID, has announces that significant recent growth has seen the company strengthen its position in the mobile payments market. The launch of its HCE and token service provider (TSP) tokenisation solutions has further driven team expansion, requiring investment in new, larger offices for its Rotterdam headquarters.

In today’s fragmented multiple network environment, managing services to provide quality customer engagement whilst maximising revenues is a challenge for service providers. Where distributed networks can now include hundreds of thousands of Internet of Things (IoT) connections, this challenge is only getting more complex as members of the Stream Technologies executive team explain.

Wind River®, has delivered enhancements to Wind River Open Virtualisation, Security Profile for Wind River Linux, and Carrier Grade Profile for Wind River Linux. These profiles provide developers with key capabilities to create the safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems that will harness the power of the Internet of Things (IoT).

Telit Wireless Solutions, enabler of the Internet of the Things (IoT), has announced that FastTrack, a player in electronic bag tags and track & trace solutions for travellers, has designed its new Eviate eTrack solution using Telit’s HE910-D and SE868 V2 GPS receivers.

Amdocs has long been recognised as one of the industry’s leading software and services companies, supporting telecommunications, media and entertainment service providers around the world. With more and more M2M/IoT solutions looking to come to market, it’s fast becoming clear that new types of services and vendor relationships will be required to drive and support increasing demand. To get

Austrian-based company Rosenbauer, the manufacturer of firefighting equipment, has announces it has chosen Telekom Austria Group M2M’s innovative telematics solutions for the administration of its firefighting vehicles. As of now, security-critical vehicles will be connected with the central server application via a mobile data connection (GPRS/UMTS). This solution is particularly well suited for global-scale deployment,

Sequans Communications S.A. has announced that its Colibri LTE chipset platform, along with two Colibri-based LTE modules, have been certified compliant with Verizon Wireless Open Network specifications. Colibri is an LTE category 4 (150 Mbps) chipset platform optimised for the design of devices for the Internet of Things. The modules, VZ22Q, a surface-mountable LGA module, and

Swisscom Health AG and the i-engineers AG, a software firm that provides specialised solutions for electronic patient record-keeping and networking, have decided to enter a strategic partnership. The cooperation will create new cloud-based solutions for hospitals that will also be beneficial to doctors and patients. Customers of the i-engineers will therefore be able to purchase their services at