Madrid, 28 December 2021 –Â Telefonica Tech, , Telefonica’s digital business unit, and Contazara, Spain’s manufacturer of electronic meters, will deploy 130,000 smart meters for the public utility. This first phase is the start of Canal de Isabel II’s planned total mass roll-out plan, which will see it install approximately 650,000 water meters with integrated Narrow Band IoT (NBIoT) communication over the next three years. (more…)
December 28, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 24 November 2021 –Â stc, the ICT specialist driving digital transformation in the Middle East and North Africa, has announced a partnership with Sensoneo to provide customers in Saudi Arabia with the most reliable and easy-to-deploy smart waste management technology. Sensoneo is a provider of enterprise-grade smart waste management solutions. (more…)
November 24, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
In the latest Trending Tech podcast we discuss the hopes in IoT for enhanced security and more efficient, lower cost operations. What role will be played by eSIM, iSIM, remote SIM provisioning and subscription management? And to tell us who’s adopting the tech and why, we have expert input from Loic Bonvarlet of IoT security enabler Kigen, and Matt Hatton from analysts Transforma Insights.
November 3, 2021
Posted by: Barto Szkaradek
IoT Carrier 1NCE reports it has raised $50 million (€42.87 million) in new financing. The capital is being provided by investors including Deutsche Telekom, SoftBank, and other investors. 1NCE offers cellular device connectivity at a fixed price in over 100 countries via 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, NB-IoT and LTE-M. Its cloud-based connectivity platform includes IoT services such as plug-and-play setup and device management. (more…)
September 29, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
A new report from the IoT market research firm Berg Insight says that the global number of cellular IoT subscribers increased by 12% during 2020 to reach 1.74 billion. (more…)
August 2, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
SIMCom, the designer and manufacturer of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) wireless modules and solutions, announced that the SIMCom NB-IoT SIM7070 module measuring only 24Â mm x 24Â mm can now be equipped with a compact eSIM security controller from Infineon powered by GSMA-compliant remote SIM management software provided by Kigen (UK) Ltd. The security controller comes in the smallest SMD package, significantly smaller than the standard currently established. (more…)
June 23, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of waste collection points fitted with smart waste sensor technology reached 657,000 worldwide in 2020 (excluding China). (more…)
June 17, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
Berg Insight estimates that global cellular IoT module shipments increased by 14% to a new record level of 303 million in 2020. Annual revenues grew slower at 8% to reach US$3.4 billion (€2.79 billion). (more…)
June 10, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
TT Electronics, a global provider of engineered electronics for performance-critical applications, announced the launch of its S-2CONNECT Creo SOM for rapid IoT deployment. The system-on-module board is designed for engineers, programmers and developers who are charged with reducing R&D risk and fast-tracking their IoT applications development using a pre-certified system-on-module (SOM) board with cellular connectivity. (more…)
June 8, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello
TT Electronics, a global provider of engineered electronics for performance-critical applications, announced that it has been selected as hardware partner to Telenor, a communications and IoT provider ranked among the top 10 IoT operators globally and the top three in Europe. (more…)
May 20, 2021
Posted by: Anasia D'mello