Case Study: eWaterPAY

Eseye’s technology connects industrial, vending, banking and smart city customers globally, but how well does it work in practice? Well enough for even the most challenging environments and for eWaterPAY and Eseye to win the Global Mobile Awards 2018 for the Outstanding Mobile Contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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IoT brings clean water to thousands of people in Africa

783 million people worldwide – equivalent to one in nine people, still don’t have access to clean water. Water systems are continuously installed but 65% break within the first two years as there is no sustainable method of maintaining them.

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Vodafone and CorFire launch new m-wallet services, Gemalto to manage Voda's global NFC m-payments

Atlanta, Georgia, USA (BUSINESS WIRE) — CorFire™, the mobile commerce business of SK C&C USA, is providing mobile wallet capabilities to Vodafone Group, enabling Vodafone’s customers to use their smartphones to conduct a number of transactions,

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Berg Insight predicts 381 million active mobile money users in emerging markets by 2017

According to a new research report by Berg Insight, the number of active mobile money users in emerging markets is forecasted to grow from 61 million in 2011

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Gemalto buys Ericsson's IPX mobile payment and messaging platform

Amsterdam, October 1, 2012 – Gemalto, a leading provider of digital security, today announces that it has closed the acquisition of Ericsson Internet Payment Exchange AB (IPX), with the exception of operations in USA, from Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (NASDAQ: Ericsson), the global communications technology and services provider.

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iPhone 5 dodges NFC as a mobile wallet technology and plays for time on Passbook

(Reuters & additional reporting) — Any lingering hopes among proponents of NFC that Apple’s launch of the iPhone 5 (pictured) might spring a pleasant surprise were dashed on Friday when the new device emerged without the technology. This non-move had been trailed beforehand but backers of NFC as a leading mobile payment technology may still

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Almost half of CSPs surveyed expect M2M to have most positive impact on their business to 2014

Lisbon, Portugal – A new survey of communication service providers (CSPs) shows that 48% expect machine-to-machine (M2M) communications to have the most positive impact on their business over the next two years. WeDo Technologies, a provider of business and revenue assurance, surveyed over 100 representatives from 47 CSPs worldwide

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Emerging markets to lead mobile money growth

The number of mobile money subscribers in emerging markets is forecasted to grow from 133 million users in 2010 at a compound annual growth rate of 40% to reach 709 million users in 2015, according to a report from Berg Insight.

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