New French electronic driving licence combats fraud with Integrity Guard security chips

M2M Innovation World Congress, Nice, France & Neubiberg, Germany – Security chips for the new electronic driving (eDriver) licence issued in France from this month, are being supplied by Infineon Technologies. The new polycarbonate smart card replacing the traditional paper document contains an embedded SLE78 microprocessor with ‘Integrity Guard’.

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‘And at the end, connecting your product will cost you US$1 per year’ – Is this the role for SIGFOX?

(BLOG): August 22, 2013 — It sounds quite odd to start a book from its last page, but this is the claim of SIGFOX, a French start-up company, which is intending to be the network operator of “Things”. As Groupe SEB’s Karim Houni writes, since the first minutes of a meeting with SIGFOX, its aim

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Bluetooth will be an essential tool for building the Internet of Everything, says ABI Research

London, UK — ABI Research estimates that the installed base of Bluetooth-enabled devices alone reached 3.5 billion in 2012 and is forecast to grow to almost 10 billion by 2018 — this doesn’t take into account many other technologies such as Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and cellular.

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M2M Technologies Fair and Conference

Event date: March 21–23, 2013 Istanbul Fair Centre, Turkey M2M TECHNOLOGIES Fair and Conference will be held from March 21 to 23, 2013 at Istanbul Fair Centre. The organisers say it is going to be a milestone for the development and spread of M2M and telemetry technologies in the region.

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