LTE-M and NB-IoT networks are being cited as the next evolution for cellular IoT deployments. These new, low-power, low-cost networks will enable a new wave of IoT use cases while providing additional benefits to existing connected solutions. But LTE-M and NB-IoT networks are highly constrained networks that will create material bandwidth limitations not previously seen,…
Analyst house ABI Research has pulled together its big guns in each vertical sector to consider how technologywill change things in 2020 – or, rather, how it won’t. Some seasonal Scrooge-like myth-busting is timely and much-needed, it says. “Knowing what won’t happen in technology in the next year is important for end users, implementors, and…
Note, this is an excerpt from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-creation, co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. Go here for the full report (free to download). It takes from and extends a previous (7-inch single edit) article on the same subject, of ‘co-creation’,…
Finland’s Elisa Smart Factory, which provides industrial IoT and data analytics solutions, announced a collaboration agreement with IT services, consulting and business solutions provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Under the terms of this collaboration, Elisa Smart Factory and TCS will jointly undertake efforts to market and deploy Elisa Smart Factory IIoT and advanced analytics…
Canadian firm Fleet Complete, which provides IoT solutions in the connected commercial vehicle space, has acquired Mexican telematics firm Centro de Soluciones Inalámbricas (CSI), the former said in a release. The acquisition of CSI will allow Fleet Complete to accelerate growth in the Mexican market, following the launch of IoT solutions in that market…
Joseph Biron, chief technology officer for IoT, PTC: “At the turn of the decade, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and PTC president and chief executuve Jim Heppelmann laid out the industrial race for smart, connected products, and how the early movers stood to gain. “Using industrial IoT and augmented reality (AR) technologies, enterprises have…
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance have announced a working group, under the name Connected Home over IP, to develop and promote a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products. Security will be a fundamental design tenet, the group said. Zigbee Alliance board members Ikea, Legrand, NXP Semiconductors, Schneider Electric,…
The 400 largest cellular IoT deployments at a global level together account for 279 million units, according to a recent study by Swedish consultancy firm Berg Insight. The study includes various types of projects deployed across all types of vertical markets, including aftermarket automotive, fleet management and Mobile Resource Management (MRM), healthcare, OEM automotive,…
UK smart lighting firm Telensa and Thailand-based lighting manufacturer LIGMAN have struck a deal to combine their offers in the Asia Pacific market. The pair will offer LED luminaires and wireless controls as a combined offer in the region. The deal – bringing intelligent control to energy efficient lighting – will enable cities to push…
Sven Hamann, Senior Vice President, Bosch Connected Industry: “Only the floor, the walls, and the ceiling are fixed; everything else is flexible and mobile, and adapts to customers’ orders in seconds. People remain at the centre of the action. This is Bosch’s vision of the ‘factory of the future’. We are seeing quite some movement…
