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Georgia Tech opens landmark Atrium in city of Peachtree Corners’ curiosity lab

Peachtree Corners – one of the nation’s first smart cities powered by real-world connected infrastructure and 5G – opened the doors of the first Georgia Tech Atrium, signalling an exciting leap forward for research, collaboration and engagement. Developed as a premier hub for advanced learning and experiential opportunities, the Georgia Tech Atrium offers learners unprecedented access to cutting-edge resources through Curiosity Lab’s real-world testing environment, ensuring they gain direct exposure to practical innovation.

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April 22, 2025

Posted by: Marion Webber

Borqs Technologies completed cash sale of core businesses to Sasken Technologies of India

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

Posted by: Marion Webber

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ITEN announces breakthrough in Solid-State Li-ion Battery

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

Posted by: Marion Webber

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Norway’s Horten Municipality employs Nordic Semiconductor-powered cellular IoT monitoring solution to address drinking water waste from pipe leaks

Horten Municipality in southern Norway, and local smart condition monitoring solution provider, 7Sense, have collaborated on a cellular Internet of Things (IoT)-based project designed to detect leaks in drinking water networks in the region. The solution is powered by Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF9160 low power module with integrated LTE-M/NB-IoT modem and GNSS, and the project is supported by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

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April 10, 2025

Posted by: Marion Webber

PEAK3 Spectrum and ASUS IoT partnership announcement

PEAK3 and ASUS IoT partner to deliver next-generation broadcast technology to edge computing

PEAK3 Spectrum and ASUS IoT has announced a partnership that will integrate PEAK3’s Industrial ATSC 3.0 M.2 Receiver technology into ASUS Internet of Things (IoT)’s hardware platforms, creating new possibilities for smart cities and industrial automation.
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April 2, 2025

Posted by: Marion Webber

Gateworks joins NXP Gold Partner Program | Strengthening leadership in embedded technology

Gateworks Corporation, a contributor in industrial Single Board Computers (SBCs), has announced their inclusion in the NXP Semiconductors Gold Partner Program. This partnership strengthens Gateworks’ position as a key player in the embedded market, enabling faster development and deployment of high-performance solutions for industrial IoT, automation and more.

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March 20, 2025

Posted by: Marion Webber

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Quectel and STACKFORCE integrate wireless M-Bus protocol into LoRa module

Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider, and STACKFORCE GmbH has announced at Embedded World in Nuremburg that wireless M-Bus (wM-Bus) connectivity has been integrated into the KG200Z LoRa module, enhancing connectivity for smart metering, industrial automation and IoT applications, bridging the gap between short-range and long-range communication.

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March 12, 2025

Posted by: Marion Webber

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PHY Wireless collaborates with Nordic Semiconductor to deliver accurate ultra- low-power location technology

PHY Wireless, a contributor in innovative cellular location technology, has announced a collaboration with Nordic Semiconductor to integrate its ultra-low-power location technology with Nordic’s nRF9151 system-in-package (SiP) module. This collaboration uses 3GPP-standardised signaling to deliver power-efficient, high-accuracy location solutions worldwide with PHY Wireless’s industry-first on-device observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) solution.

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February 26, 2025

Posted by: Marion Webber

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LoRa Alliance released 2024 annual report

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

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Peachtree Corners and ConnVAS showcase smart crosswalk technology for road safety

Peachtree Corners, one of the nation’s first smart cities powered by real-world connected infrastructure and 5G, have announced a collaboration for a pilot project with ConnVAS, an innovator in advanced traffic and pedestrian safety solutions. The pilot launched outside of Pinckneyville Middle School, addresses the safety challenges of busy crosswalks by testing how real-time AI-driven detection and alerts can reduce accidents and create a safer environment for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers by activating alerts, even when pedestrians do not activate crosswalk signals.

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February 6, 2025

Posted by: Marion Webber