Machina Research study finds LPWA connections trebled in 2015 to reach 23.2m globally

Machina Research, a provider of strategic market intelligence on the Internet of Things, launched a new market tracker to follow the developments in Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks.

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Profiting from the IoT surge: the view from the front line of service innovation

There’s no doubt that debate about the IoT and its direction has risen from being a specialist subject to near the top of the boardroom agenda for many companies in

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LPWAN suddenly needed for IoT

The need for a narrowband wide area network devoted to IoT was obvious but it is only recently it has become obvious for many.

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Sequans and Foxconn subsidiary Socle form LTE for IoT strategic partnership

LTE chipmaker Sequans Communications S.A. and system-on-chip designer Socle Technology Corp., a fully-owned subsidiary of Foxconn announced a strategic partnership to address the global market for the LTE-enabled Internet of Things (IoT).

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Berg Insight predicts 1 billion cellular M2M subscribers by 2022

According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the global number of cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) subscribers increased by 23% during 2015 to reach 265.2 million at

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Vodafone, Huawei and u-blox claim ‘first successful commercial trial’ of pre-standard NB-IoT

Vodafone Group, Huawei, and u-blox have completed the first successful commercial trial of pre-standard NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things).

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Growing out the ‘smart bubbles’ of LPWA connectivity

Any observer of the relationships between business and technology over the years will recognise those slightly awkward periods between the first emergence of a new technological concept and its eventual

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NB-IOT forum is preparing to take off

Top telecom industry members China Mobile, China Unicom, Ericsson, Etisalat, the GSMA, GTI, Huawei, Intel, LG Uplus, Nokia, Qualcomm Incorporated, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and Vodafone have held a preparatory event,

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First commercial network in Europe equipped to communicate with sensors

Deutsche Telekom recently deployed the world’s first field implementation of Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT). The trial was conducted in Germany along with Huawei who provided the equipment.

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LTE will become the leading technology for cellular IoT devices in 2019, says Berg Insight

A new research report from Berg Insight predicts that LTE will become the leading technology for cellular IoT devices in 2019. Berg Insight forecasts that global shipments of cellular IoT

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3GPP’s new NB-IOT standard adds much needed choice to M2M landscape

Last week saw one of 2015’s most far-reaching developments in M2M connectivity, as the 3rd Generation Partnership Project’s (3GPP) plenary meeting in Phoenix, Arizona reached a decision on the standardisation

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