Sierra Wireless has released its new Octave IoT platform, first announced in June as an integrated offer with Microsoft’s Azure IoT cloud solution. It claims the platform is “unique” as the only ‘full-stack’ IoT package on the market, combining hardware, connectivity, and management software in a single bundle. The Octave pack is targeted mainly at…
The mining industry continues to recruit operators and vendors to deploy new industrial LTE and 5G networks on the promise of industrial change. Here is a summary of recently announced deployments. 1 | Minera Las Bambas, Peru Minera Las Bambas in Peru, the ninth largest copper mine in the world, has appointed Telefónica and Nokia to…
From monitoring patients in hospitals to manufacturing plants, many industries are transforming with IoT. By 2020, Ericsson predicts that there will be around 29 billion connected devices worldwide, of which the majority (18 billion) will be IoT-based. IoT is slowly becoming the Internet of Everything. Emerging technologies such as 5G, IoT and AI together with…
Global cybersecurity specialist Kaspersky said that it has detected 105 million attacks on IoT devices coming from 276,000 unique IP addresses in the first six months of the year. The company highlighted that this figure is seven times more than the number found in H1 2018, when only around 12 million attacks were spotted originating…
Global cybersecurity specialist Kaspersky said that it has detected 105 million attacks on IoT devices coming from 276,000 unique IP addresses in the first six months of the year. The company highlighted that this figure is seven times more than the number found in H1 2018, when only around 12 million attacks were spotted originating…
The cellular IoT ecosystem, the cellular community would have us believe, is growing fast. The GSMA counted 89 NB-IoT networks and 34 LTE-M launches as of October 2019, with several operators running both technologies in tandem, at doubling in 12 months. The number of NB-IoT and LTE-M devices and subscriptions are also growing; up 34…
The steady liberalisation of radio spectrum for private and shared usage in various markets, along with the growing realisation among traditional network operators that their licensed spectrum mat be better used for dedicated applications in under-covered locales, means the industrial set has a number of options, suddenly, to deploy cellular connectivity. MulteFire is among the…
Private networks and cellular IoT will be keys for operators to unlock $700 billion of new revenues from industrial 5G services community in the next decade, as industrial sectors look to drive digital change on cellular networking, reckons Ericsson. But operators must redefine their service remit, urgently, if they are to bolster their stagnating revenues. This…
Qualcomm Technologies announced it is developing the first cellular chip optimized and certified for Microsoft’s Azure Sphere Internet of Things (IoT) operating system. The announcement was made at Qualcomm’s 5G Summit taking place in Barcelona, Spain, this week, Qualcomm Technologies’ new Azure Sphere-certified chipset for IoT will include hardware-level security, come preconfigured with the Azure…
1 | Anglo American, Capcoal coal mine, Queensland, Australia British mining company Anglo American has just started work in Australia on what it envisions as “one of the most technologically advanced underground mines in the world”. It is pumping $226 million into the expansion of an underground coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, near Middlemount. …
