DHS turns to IoT to manage Active Shooter events
US authorities led by the Department of Homeland Security are hoping to use IoT and Smart City technologies to help them combat “active shooter” events, where a perpetrator randomly [...]
Amazon, Apple, Google, Zigbee Alliance to develop new home IoT standard
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance have formed a working group to develop a royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products. Security will be a [...]
Berg analyses top 400 cellular IoT deployments
The 400 largest cellular IoT deployments together account for 279 million units, according to market watcher Berg Insight. The analyst has created a database covering the 400 largest cellular IoT [...]
Ericsson and Telia pilot autonomous ferry
Ericsson, Telia and the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU) have demonstrated a 5G-enabled driverless passenger ferry, with an AI captain, in the Norwegian fjord city of Trondheim. The [...]
Eurotech and Retelit collaborate on IoT platforms
Italian companies Retelit and Eurotech are collaborating to create an ecosystem of IoT platforms and infrastructures. Enterprises and cities look towards IoT, automation and robotics to innovate, which is why [...]
Researchers use drones to connect IoT sensor networks
Drones could be used to connect smart sensors to the IoT, according to researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (Kaust) in Saudi Arabia. The researchers have [...]
NTT Docomo approves Telit modules
Telit has completed NTT Docomo interoperability testing for its LE910C1-AP and LE910C4-AP modules. This brings up to ten the number of its IoT modules with NTT Docomo interoperability testing [...]
IMC panel at CES to examine NIST IoT plans
The IoT M2M Council (IMC) will be running a panel at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on the news that the IoT has been identified as [...]
Sigfox uses satellites to track sailors across all oceans
Sigfox is working with French boat equipment maker Plastimo to offer total geolocation coverage across all oceans from 2020. The service will be supported by data from the ELO [...]
Cisco reveals plans for new internet
Cisco has unveiled more details behind its technology strategy for building a new internet, one designed to push digital innovation beyond the performance, economic and power consumption limitations of [...]
Nokia brings 5G and IoT to Japanese enterprises
Nokia is building an ecosystem partnership to bring 5G and IoT to enterprises in Japan. Finland-based Nokia wants to bring local 5G and private wireless LTE to industrial and government [...]
Renesas board simplifies IoT endpoint prototyping
Renesas Electronics has introduced a low-power board to simplify IoT endpoint equipment prototyping. With its Bluetooth Low Energy expansion board, it includes interfaces supporting a wide range of functional [...]
