
Should you use Wi-Fi or LoRa for IoT? Why not both at once?
A report from the Wireless Broadband Alliance and the LoRa Alliance claims Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN can be combined to create a plethora of new IoT use cases. Read more…
A report from the Wireless Broadband Alliance and the LoRa Alliance claims Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN can be combined to create a plethora of new IoT use cases. Read more…
NTT DoCoMo USA has announced the immediate launch of an IoT-driven temperature- and humidity-monitoring service for industrial refrigerators and freezers in the US. Customers can use smartphones or PCs to monitor the temperature and humidity Read more…
New Zealand incumbent telco Spark says it has switched on its second Internet of Things (IoT) network, which will run on its LTE network using LTE Cat-M1 technology. The launch of Cat-M1 IoT follows the Read more…
The LoRa Alliance, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN standard for the Internet of Things (IoT) low-power wide area networks (LPWANs), announced that Tencent has joined the alliance, which the association says Read more…
Tata Communications says it is working with Indian natural gas distribution company Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) to deploy 5,000 smart gas meters in Mumbai, which will give households and businesses visibility and control over their Read more…
New Zealand telco Spark says its LoRa IoT network will launch later this month and Levno has signed as its first customer in a partnership targeting rural areas. As part of the agreement with Spark, Read more…
Public low power wide area (LPWA) connections using both licensed and unlicensed spectrum are anticipated to reach over 1 billion globally by 2021, representing a 206% CAGR from 2014 – which is good news for Read more…
Spark announced it is rolling out a LoRa network to enable the Internet of Things in New Zealand’s most populated urban centers, and will switch on sites in Christchurch, Wellington, Hamilton and Auckland by the Read more…
Hong Kong’s independent telecoms regulator announced it has created a new licensing regime for wireless low power wide area (LPWA) IoT networks using the shared 920-925 MHz frequency band. The Communications Authority (CA) said that Read more…
SK Telecom announced that it has successfully completed the deployment of LTE Cat-M1 technology for IoT applications. LTE Cat-M1 is one of the IoT-related standards published in March 2016 by 3GPP. It is an upgraded Read more…
New Zealand telco Spark says it is preparing to commence not one but two IoT network trials this month – one using its LTE network, and the other using low-power wireless access (LPWA) network using Read more…
Keeping up with the latest IoT technologies, solutions, vendors and use cases can be overwhelming. Every week we’re inundated with new announcements about how some widget is going to solve a problem we didn’t even Read more…
As everyone recovers from this year’s Mobile World Congress, I am still trying to comprehend the potential impact of three announcements there on low power WANs (LPWANs). Taken in isolation, these announcements are interesting. But Read more…
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