Tag: standards
Actility and Inmarsat deliver global LoRaWAN network
Inmarsat and Actility have set up the world’s first truly global IoT (Internet of Things) network. Inmarsat's satellite coverage has been combined with Actility's Low...
Make devices useful for the connected home to become a consumer...
Rafi Zauer, Head of Marketing at Essence, discusses the development of connected home technology and why the term "Internet of Things" may already be...
How will Vodafone’s NB-IoT network affect IoT device manufacturers?
Following a successful trial of NB-IoT on a live network, Vodafone has completed the commercial launch of this standard in Spain.
The company's Narrowband Internet of...
SAP announces new IoT solution for customer strategies
German software giant SAP has added a new "jump-start enablement program" to its growing portfolio of Internet of Things (IoT) products and services.
The solution...
VIDEO: IoT standards – survival of the fittest?
With hundreds of IoT standards, from sensor level, up to the network and into the cloud, the journey to IoT adoption is not straightforward. So...
Seven predictions for the Internet of Things in 2017
Internet of Business looks to the experts to determine what's in store for IoT in 2017. Here follows seven IoT predictions made at the...
NB-IoT could be dead in the water, claims IoT analyst
Standards bodies have “dropped the ball” when it comes to making a unified standard the Internet of Things, leaving NB-IoT dead in the water,...
A defining year for IoT: What made the headlines in 2016
Internet of Business looks back on the impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) in 2016, including the key partnerships, the headline mergers and acquisitions...
There’s a standards problem in IoT, here’s how to solve it
IoB Insiders Professor William Webb, CEO of the Weightless SIG, discusses the current standards problem facing the Internet of Things (IoT) market, and how he...
Bluetooth 5 launches with emphasis on IoT
Bluetooth 5 promises higher speeds, bigger capacity, longer range
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has given the go-ahead to Bluetooth 5 which should see...
Huawei insists IoT networks need ‘systematic’ planning
Huawei (pronounced 'wah-way') makes really nice phones, we already know that i.e. the firm's P9 device has two Leica lenses camera and takes images...
400 platforms, 100+ standards and one big fat reality check for...
The IoT community likes to get excited by the potential number of connected devices, and the revenue that could generate for solution providers – but there...