Shipments of connected wearables will reach 262 million in 2021, says Berg Insight

Berg Insight, the M2M/IoT market research provider, released new findings about the connected wearables market. Shipments of connected wearables reached 96.5 million in 2016, up from 75.1 million devices in the previous year.

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Cisco Jasper supports NB-IoT to bring massive-scale IoT to low power devices

Cisco Jasper® has completed live trials of Narrow Band-IoT (NB-IoT) on its Control Centre connectivity management platform, making it one of the first IoT platforms to support NB-IoT.

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Shipments of connected wearables will reach 228 million in 2020

According to a new report from the M2M/IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, shipments of connected wearables reached 72.5 million in 2015, up from 25.3 million devices in the previous year.

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Numerex releases mySHIELD™, mobile personal emergency

Numerex Corp has announced the release of mySHIELD™ , a mobile personal emergency response (mPERS) system deployed as a wearable device to enhance the safety of lone workers, the elderly, and others.  Built on Numerex’s versatile platform , mySHIELD is a valuable tool to help ensure the safety of workers in the real estate, healthcare, educational, security,

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Mobile health system connects people to emergency care at critical moments

Dallas, Texas — Until now, an elderly person suffering from a fall or heart attack could use a device around their neck to send for help – as long as they were at home. AT&T aims to beat this limitation with a mobile health (mHealth) solution that automatically connects people in distress to medical assistance,

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