Press Releases

Chirp and EDF Energy secure £100k Innovate UK funding to trial data-over-sound solutions in nuclear power plants

Chirp, a data-over-sound provider, along with partner EDF Energy, has been awarded £100,000 (€114206.50) by Innovate UK to trial a new project taking place at the company’s Heysham 1 power station. (more…)

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February 1, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

New Digi XBee3 series of smart edge IoT modules and modems announced by Digi International

Digi International®, a global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity products and services, says that the Digi® XBee3™ series of next-generation RF modules and cellular modems is now available. (more…)

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January 31, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

PTC partners with Microsoft to help customers accelerate their digital transformations in IoT

PTC announced it has partnered with Microsoft to make available the ThingWorx® Industrial Innovation Platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, capitalising on the two companies’ complementary technologies and together targeting opportunities in industrial sectors, including manufacturing. (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

EIT Digital launches new generation ModBox gateway

EIT Digital supported High Impact Initiative (HII) OEDIPUS keeps delivering results. As part of the HII’s activity “Robot IoT Interface”, CEA LIST Institute, Agileo Automation, Isybot, DFKI and Siemens, have leveraged joint entrepreneurial innovation to develop the ModBox, (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Alpha Micro’s Laird 60 Series Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules ready for today, and for the future

Alpha Micro Components announced the availability of the new Laird 60 Series of certified 802.11ac 2×2 MU-MIMO Wi-Fi and Bluetooth v4.2 modules. The 60 Series modules are based on cutting-edge manufacturing techniques, which not only help developers and designers get the most out of today’s most powerful wireless connectivity technologies, (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Lanner’s embedded PC LEC-2580P receives PTCRB certification for IIoT applications

LEI TECHNOLOGY, North American subsidiary of Lanner Electronics Inc and a IoT-Ready industrial computing hardware manufacturer, announced that its powerful embedded box PC, LEC-2580P, has earned the PTCRB wireless communication certification, (more…)

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January 26, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

u-blox technology provides cellular connectivity for a professional IoT platform

u‑blox, a globalprovider of wireless and positioning modules and chips, announced that its SARA cellular module series will provide wireless connectivity for a new end-to-end platform for Industry 4.0. With the platform, developed by Italian-based Iomote, businesses will be able to easily connect existing machines (more…)

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Digi International acquires Accelerated Concepts, Inc.

Digi International, a global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity products and services announced that it has acquired Accelerated Concepts, Inc., a provider of secure, enterprise-grade, cellular (LTE) networking equipment for primary and backup connectivity applications. (more…)

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January 25, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Smart city tech to drive over 5% incremental GDP, trillions in economic growth over the next decade reports ABI Research

The positive impact of smart city technologies on economic development could see cities locking in incremental growth of over 5% and driving more than $20 trillion (€16.21 trillion) in additional economic benefits over the coming decade. These are the findings of a new whitepaper by ABI Research (more…)

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January 24, 2018

Posted by: Zenobia Hegde

Rajant selects Minerva to distribute kinetic mesh networks

Rajant and Minerva announced a new distribution agreement to bring Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh wireless networks to companies in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) looking to solve the advanced communications challenges of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and other autonomous applications. (more…)

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Posted by: Zenobia Hegde