Visa Inc. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Plaid, a network that makes it easy for people to securely connect their financial accounts to the apps they use to manage their financial lives. Visa will pay total purchase consideration of $5.3 billion (€4.7 billion) to acquire Plaid. (more…)
January 14, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
M2M/IoT market research provider, Berg Insight, has released new findings about the market for smart waste management says Levi Ostling, IoT analyst at Berg Insight. The installed base of smart waste sensors reached 379,000 worldwide in 2018. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.8 %, this number will increase to 1.5 million in 2023. (more…)
January 13, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Semtech Corporation, a supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced that Elmeasure India Pvt. Ltd. (Elmeasure), a developer of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and ClodPi Labs (ClodPi), an IoT innovator developed a new LoRa-based prepaid energy metering solution. (more…)
January 8, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband and low-latency Mobile Edge Compute (MEC) infrastructure, combined with HERE Technologies‘ highly precise mapping and advanced edge AI perception, are coming together to reimagine a future of enhanced road safety and precise localisation for navigation. (more…)
January 7, 2020
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of telematics service subscribers using embedded systems will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.1% from 80.4 million subscribers at the end of 2018 to 339.3 million subscribers at the end of 2024. (more…)
December 19, 2019
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
OmniAir Consortium, the global industry association promoting interoperability and certification for intelligent transportation systems (ITS), tolling, and connected vehicles, reports that GTT Wireless, a global provider of carrier-grade antenna and enclosure solutions headquartered in Rutland, UK, is OmniAir’s newest member. (more…)
December 17, 2019
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Particle has appointed three new people to its board of directors. They are Liz Tinkham, former managing director at Accenture, Carlos Kokron, vice president, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and managing director, Americas for Qualcomm Ventures, and Sameer Reddy, partner at Energy Impact Partners, to its board of directors. (more…)
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
When we think about the future of connected Internet of Things (CIoT) devices that shape our behaviours in a meaningful way, we really have yet to see significant market traction outside of fitness trackers and smart speakers. (more…)
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Conducted at the Ericsson Lab in Kista in early December, the interoperability test involved the use of an end-to-end solution from Ericsson and Dimensity 1000 commercial chipset from MediaTek deployed on a 3.5GHz TDD band. (more…)
December 16, 2019
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Plastimo, an international player in the boating industry, and Sigfox, the IoT service provider and global 0G network operator, have joined forces to offer total geolocation coverage across all oceans from 2020. The new service will be supported by data from the ELO nano-satellite constellation, operated by Eutelsat, Sigfox’s partner. (more…)
Posted by: Anasia D'mello