ORBCOMM has announced the launch of the SKYWAVE Connect partner program, which enables Internet of Things (IoT) solution providers, system integrators, value-added resellers and other channel partners to accelerate their IoT solution development, expand their market reach and take advantage of new growth opportunities. The program launched in select regions with a global rollout to follow later this year.

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April 17, 2025

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Borqs Technologies, Inc. has announced that it has completed the sale of its core businesses to Sasken Technologies, Ltd., a global product engineering and digital transformation services company based in India. Included in the sale were all of the Company’s embedded software design and customised hardware manufacturing of products for the Internet of Things (IoT) activities. Price for the sale totalled US$40 million, a portion will be reserved for employees, tax withholding and payments subject to an earnout arrangement linked to performance in the year 2025.

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April 16, 2025

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ITEN, an innovator and industrial player in the development and production of Surface-Mount Device (SMD) Solid-State Batteries (SBBs) for electronic markets, unveiled an advancement in energy storage. ITEN’s latest SSB achieves an unprecedented 200C discharge rate (200 times the battery’s capacity per hour) —100 times higher than conventional Li-ion batteries—setting a new benchmark for miniaturised energy storage. This technology is now being manufactured at scale to build the Powency product family, with the company’s high-volume production capabilities ready to meet growing demand for Internet of Things (IoT) and other connected devices across various industries.

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April 11, 2025

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Ayla Networks, a provider of smart home and Internet of Things (IoT) software platforms, has announced its partnership with Google Cloud to enhance scalability, reliability, security and innovation opportunities for Ayla’s global customers.

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April 9, 2025

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Treon and Skyler have announced a partnership to transform asset reliability management. The collaboration combines Treon’s Internet of Things (IoT)-powered solutions with Skyler’s comprehensive reliability services and artificial intelligence (AI) analytics for mechanical equipment, delivering full coverage across plants—from balance-of-plant systems to critical assets.

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April 4, 2025

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ColorTokens Inc., a global contributor in enterprise microsegmentation, has announced a partnership with Wipro Limited, a technology services and consulting company, to launch Breach Ready Security Solution — an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Zero Trust microsegmentation security defence solution tailored for global enterprises.

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March 14, 2025

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SG Wireless Limited, an Internet of Things (IoT) technology solutions provider, has announced the solidification of its partnership with parent company Season Group to provide customers with a comprehensive, one-stop solution for contract manufacturing of IoT device designs.

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March 13, 2025

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Syniverse, one of the world’s most connected company, has joined the Mobile Satellite Services Association (MSSA) — an industry effort to advance the development of direct-to-device (D2D) and Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity through an ecosystem of non-terrestrial network (NTN) providers that are committed to extending mobile coverage globally.

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March 4, 2025

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Thales, a global contributor in advanced technologies, and Cubic, a global provider of software-defined vehicle (SDV) solutions, have announced a collaboration to drive innovation and simplify connectivity management. Using Thales’s eSIM management platform, Cubic will enhance its eSIM solution capabilities to align with the latest GSMA standards, ensuring global connectivity across industries such as automotive, transportation and agriculture.

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February 28, 2025

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The LoRa Alliance, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN standard for the internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), has issued its 2024 End of Year Report. The report provides a compilation of the LoRaWAN’s advances and LoRa Alliance achievements throughout the year that contributed to LoRaWAN emerging as the only LPWAN positioned to support Massive IoT. This year’s report also showcases LoRaWAN’s prominence as an essential and irreplaceable technology supporting global digital transformation.

Key trends identified in the report include:

• Industry analyst firm Omdia projects that LoRaWAN will help drive LPWAN connections beyond 3.5 billion by 2030, reinforcing its leadership position. As of June 2024, over 350 million end nodes and 6.9 million gateways with LoRa ICs have been deployed worldwide, further supporting the expansion of LoRaWAN networks.
• LoRa Alliance members are self-reporting strong growth during 2024. For example:
  • Actility reported 4M connected LoRaWAN devices with a CAGR of 50+%.
  • The Things Industries reported 2.7 million connected devices with 50% year-over-year growth; and
  • ZENNER reports more than 9 million devices have been deployed.
• Backed by continued enhancements to the LoRaWAN standard, non-terrestrial network (NTN) LoRaWAN connectivity is available from three commercial service providers, putting LoRaWAN ahead of competitive technologies in terms of NTN coverage.
• LoRaWAN continues to experience strong growth across private and enterprise deployments, with brands like Starbucks, Volvo, Chevron, Chick-fil-A, Logitech and many others using the technology.
• The Alliance has continued to strengthen and enhance its certification program to make it easier and more cost-effective to certify, including launching the LoRaWAN Web Certification System, enhancing the LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool and offering a new self-certification option.

“2024 was in many ways a watershed year for digital transformation and broad adoption of Internet of Things, which bridges the physical and digital worlds,” said Alper Yegin, the CEO of the LoRa Alliance. “We believe that digital transformation is necessary for humanity’s evolution, with immense potential to help people and the planet while driving economic growth. Over the past few years, LoRaWAN has cemented its position as a foundational and market-leading LPWAN technology. Backed by our global ecosystem, we are making Massive IoT a reality and are rapidly scaling deployments. The future is bright for LoRaWAN and as an Alliance we will remain focused on expanding our ecosystem, continuing to educate the market and build awareness, as well as ongoing technology enhancements to the standard to accelerate adoption.”

Additional highlights from the 2024 End of Year report include:

• Beecham Research issued three reports in 2024 about LoRaWAN adoption and use in Smart Cities, Smart Buildings and Smart Logistics, validating the standard’s strengths in these markets.
• The Alliance advanced several LoRaWAN standard publications, with work in progress on: GS1, device migration and device profile management, interface standardisation for gateways and application servers; relay enhancements, mobile gateway development, NTN satellite development, crypto-agility, and updated regional parameters and technical specifications.
• The Regulatory Working Group actively supported efforts to harmonise the regulation for satellites in the spectrum bands currently used by terrestrial LoRaWAN networks.
• The Alliance engaged on new work items and task forces to support using PKI for simplified device provisioning, plug-and-play device onboarding, low-power network discovery, network capacity and device and solution makers, all with the objective to make LoRaWAN easier to deploy.

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February 12, 2025

Posted by: Marion Webber