Westermo, a business entity of the Beijer Group, has acquired 100% of Virtual Access Limited, an Irish-based technology company specialising in wireless industrial routers and gateways, and managed connectivity services for customers in the utility, traffic management and telecommunications sectors. (more…)
November 1, 2019
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Thingstream, a global low-power MQTT network provider, now supports the LTE-M (Cat-M1) radio standard as part of its end-to-end ‘MQTT Anywhere’ Connectivity-as-a-service offering. (more…)
October 30, 2019
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Ru Yi, general manager of Alibaba A.I. Labs Smart Device Department, talks to Jeremy Cowan, editorial director & publisher of IoT Now about the future of smart homes. (more…)
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Still considered to be in the early, high development growth stage, the UK home automation market has doubled in size between 2014 and 2018 according to a report recently published by AMA Research. (more…)
October 28, 2019
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The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan opened Vodafone UK’s new digital hub, as new research shows that 5G could provide a multi-billion pound boost to the capital by 2030. (more…)
October 25, 2019
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
While the UK has started the deployment of 5G networks, the older 2G networks will inevitably face switch-off (or ‘sunsetting’ as it is known in some countries) at some point. This is despite being relied on by the elderly, users in rural locations and numerous machine-to-machine (M2M) applications, such as many smart meters. (more…)
October 23, 2019
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Semtech Corporation, a supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced that IHM Pacific, a developer of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for the smart utilities, and Andrea Informatique, a consultancy firm specialising in new technology and software design, (more…)
October 22, 2019
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Sierra Wireless, the IoT solutions provider that combines devices, network and software to unlock value in the connected economy, announced general availability of the Octave all-in-one edge-to-cloud solution for connecting industrial assets to the cloud. (more…)
October 17, 2019
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Consumers in the US and UK have high awareness of 5G technology, and many take a strong interest, but services need to be better positioned and the benefits more clearly explained if 5G is to take off rapidly. (more…)
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Just three years from now, the global market for information-technology-related cloud services will rise to $413.4 billion (€375.9 billion), nearly double from 2018. Five years into the future, 5G subscribers in Asia Pacific and North America will soar to 1.1 billion. In six years, the worldwide artificial intelligence (AI) business will boom into a nearly $1 trillion (€0.91 trillion) market. (more…)
October 15, 2019
Posted by: Anasia D'mello