Qualcomm Technologies has announced the launch of its latest smart cities accelerator program – with a particular focus on community.
According to the company, the programme will play an important role in bringing together various communities of companies that has been making use of Qualcomm Technologies’ products, in order to offer a solutions-focused website for the application of smart cities across the world....
A new report has argued that while smart payment technologies have shown ‘substantial’ growth, ‘significant’ security concerns remain for consumers.
The study, from Transaction Network Services (TNS), evaluated US, UK and Australian consumer experiences with – and attitudes towards – smart payment technologies on IoT-based devices, including voice assistants, Wi-Fi refrigerators, and connected...
Global semiconductor revenue increased by 12.5% year on year to £362.9 billion in 2018 compared to the previous year, according to a new study from Gartner.
The report found that 2018 growth was weaker compared with 2017, which was 21.9%. The reason for this downturn was memory growth decreasing to 24.9%, versus 2017 growth of 61.8%.
Andrew Norwood, research VP at Gartner said: “Despite slowing growth, the memory market was still the largest semiconductor market, accounting for 34.3% of...
Amazon Web Services (AWS), together with London-based computer software firm Canonical, has publicly announced the release of ‘AWS IoT Greengrass as a snap’ software, which can run on various Linux distributions.
The software is capable of bringing local compute, data caching, sync, messaging, and ML inference capabilities to edge devices, allowing IoT and embedded developers to install the programme effortlessly...
WISeKey International Holding has launched SensorsID, a digital identity offering which aims to protect device identities and their data.
Analyst firm Gartner has estimated that by 2020, more than 20 billion devices will be connected. Each device will need security with it – many of them sensors using secure IoT chips. By 2022, it is predicted, one trillion networked sensors will be embedded in the world – each one...
Sprint has announced the launch of its new Curiosity IoT Estimation Tool that will let medium and small size business customers as well as enterprise customers, quick access to customised Sprint Curiosity IoT data pricing.
The product will also allow users to choose one or multiple features to create custom access point names (APNs), as well as pricing information.
The Curiosity IoT...
By Dima Feldman, Director, Head of Product Management
This year, the Altair team once again headed off to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress. With more than 100,000 attendees from almost 200 countries, and over 2,400 companies showcasing the latest products and innovations, MWC continues to live up to its reputation as the world’s premier mobile technology convention.
The two topics that dominated our conversations (and indeed the entire event) were IoT and 5G – and with some...
MWC19 IoTium, a provider of software for industrial automation, has had little short of a stunning 12 months. The company has been recognised by both the media – this publication recently named it in its top 25 IoT startups – and industry bodies with a listing in the prestigious GSMA 100 last month the highlight.
With this on board Ron Victor, IoTium CEO (left), is in no mood to slow down. IoT News caught up...
US-based Cyxtera Technologies has released new research which has revealed that IoT devices are continuously being attacked, particularly those leveraging zero-day vulnerabilities for certain devices.
The report, titled ‘Detection of Threats to IoT Devices Using Scalable VPN-Forwarded Honeypots’, underscores some key findings from the study that was jointly conducted by researchers from the Singapore University of...
BT has secured a contract with Northumbrian Water to supply a low power IoT network which can boost efficiency through improved operational insights.
Approximately 150 sensors will be deployed across the network and will monitor things such as water flow, quality, and pressure. These sensors will be connected via a LoRaWAN (low power, long range, wide area network) and feed back data to BT’s IoT platform.
Chris Sims, Managing Director of Strategy, Marketing and Digital at BT, said:
We spoke to Ericsson IoT Head Jeff Travers during MWC 2019 about where the industry is heading and how emerging technologies are opening new possibilities.
A running theme of this year’s event was how technologies such as the IoT, 5G, AI, and blockchain are converging in powerful ways. Last year was a lot of talk about their potential, this year we’re seeing more actual deployments.
Transportation is one area where the IoT is having a major impact. The morning of our interview, Ericsson announced...
When driving I’ve often wished fellow road users would improve their skills, but IoT startup GoFar has raised over $1m to help achieve just that.
GoFar builds connected car tech. The Sydney-based startup raised more than $200,000 on Kickstarter back in June 2015 and has since expanded to 14 personnel serving thousands of customers across 53 countries.
In a funding round led by Right Click Capital, GoFar has now secured $1.3 million to continue its journey.
Glasgow-based intelligent networking and integrated security solutions provider Boston Networks is powering what is claimed to be the UK’s most advanced Internet of Things network, called IoT Scotland.
IoT Scotland is a £6 million wide area wireless sensor network that will work through 500 Long Range (LoRa) wireless gateways situated all over Scotland. The network will help applications and services to gather data...
The recently published IDC Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide has predicted that the Asia Pacific region, excluding Japan (APEJ), will spend around 36.9% of the worldwide spend, making it the global leader for IoT spending in 2019. Following APEJ will be the US and Western Europe with 26.1% of the WW IoT spend in 2019, respectively.
In 2018, China spent £123.57bn, making it the top spender in the...
San Francisco-based tech firm InfluxData has announced that it will be integrating its technology with VMware’s IoT infrastructure management solution -- the Pulse IoT Centre, which embeds InfluxData’s InfluxDB Enterprise and Kapacitor.
The Pulse IoT Centre is an enterprise-grade IoT device management and monitoring solution, allowing customers to manage, monitor and secure IoT systems and connected devices,...
Sponsored It goes without saying that the ongoing fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, will be a vital theme in 2019. Increasingly, as various industries mature in their thinking and outlook towards the Internet of Things, budgets are looking towards a confluence of emerging technologies and – deployed in concert – how they can drive greater efficiencies in the industrial sector.
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Extreme Networks, a California-based network equipment supplier, has launched Defender for IoT, which aims to help organisations secure edge and IoT devices.
Defender for IoT, which is part of the company’s Smart OmniEdge solution, can be deployed on any network by anyone, which means no technical expertise is required at all. It is so easy that even a non-technical staff at schools, hospitals, retailers, and hospitality...
Ericsson is empowering service providers across multiple industries to address a larger part of the IoT market with the help of its newly introduced next-generation cellular solutions.
These solutions will help proliferation of the cellular IoT evolution in what Ericsson sees as four market segments: broadband IoT, industrial automation IoT, massive IoT, and critical IoT.
Among those,...
The Port of Rotterdam is ready to go with its Internet of Things (IoT) platform, with the announcement that the first application for a hydro/meteo has been put into operation.
The system uses an extensive network of sensors to provide accurate and up-to-date water (hydro) and weather (meteo) data particularly for the planning and management of shipping. Construction of the IoT platform was announced a year ago by...
