Press Releases

Prophesee closes Series B funding round of US$19m with unnamed electronics giant as new strategic investor

Prophesee SA (formerly Chronocam), inventor of what is claimed to be the first bio-inspired vision system, has closed the initial tranche of its Series B financing round, which will total $19 million (€15.44 million). Led by a new strategic investor from the electronics industry, the round also includes staged investments from Prophesee’s existing investors: 360 Capital Partners, Supernova Invest, iBionext, Intel Capital, Renault Group, and Robert Bosch Venture Capital. (more…)

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February 23, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Avira SafeThings Wi-Fi Router will provide comprehensive protection for smart homes against cyber threats

Avira, the developer behind the award-winning consumer internet security portfolio, announces the introduction of Avira SafeThings Wi-Fi Router, a solution to protect your smart home, at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress. (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Teleena joins trade association IMC to reach new IoT markets

Teleena, a global IoT and Mobility enabler based in The Netherlands, has joined the trade association IoT M2M Council to expand its reach among enterprises, particularly Semiconductors, Microelectronics, Chipset manufacturers and OEMs. (more…)

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February 22, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Approxim@ction creates new standard for Ultra-Low Energy wireless sensor nodes

The new EIT Digital Innovation Activity, Approxim@ction, will create a digital platform solution for approximated embedded computing, that tackles the challenge of short battery lives of smart wireless devices found in many Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems – such as industry and smart cities. (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Challenges to IoT use – and how they are solved

The evolution of IoT devices (such as smart metres, home appliances, in-vehicle systems and personal devices), has led to the use of eSIMs (embedded SIMs) on these devices. The use of an eSIM, which is soldered to the device during manufacturing, prevents the need to retrieve or replace the cards when activated or updated, (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Canonical announces deployment of Ubuntu Core across Rigado’s IoT gateways

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announced that Ubuntu Core will be deployed across Rigado’s Edge Connectivity gateway solutions, further establishing Ubuntu Core as the premier operating system for edge computing devices. (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

PTC introduces FlexPLM Canvas a digital concept board app for retail

PTC has launched its FlexPLM Canvas app, a visually-stunning digital concept board app that enables designers and developers to easily capture inspirations, concepts, trends, requirements, and feedback in one place. Allowing brands and retailers to deliver on-trend products to market on-time and on-budget. (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Renesas Electronics unveils new Renesas Synergy website and Solutions Gallery for IoT developers

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced the newly updated Renesas Synergy™ Platform website and Solutions Gallery that place the power of the Synergy ecosystem – from software to hardware – into the developers’ hands. (more…)

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February 21, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Greenwave Systems to unleash a new wave of connectivity providing real-time insight to billions of devices

Greenwave Systems®, the global software provider for managed services, announced it is offering a new service, following the acquisition of mobile virtual network enabler technology. The new service, to be named WAVELYTM, will combine a software-defined mobile network’s core services and IoT/M2M connectivity,  (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Unlicenced low power M2M connections to approach 400 million by 2022, says Juniper Research

A new report from Juniper Research has found that the total number of connections leveraging an unlicenced spectrum to deliver low power M2M connectivity will approach 400 million by 2022. Connections using these technologies, such as Sigfox, LoRa and Ingenu, will rise from an estimated 50 million by the end of 2018, representing total growth of 736%. (more…)

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February 20, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde