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EcoMobile's Smart Waste system for remote waste container fill level measuring, and collection routes optimization was installed for Smart City Bonn pilot project. Smart Waste solution utilizes NB-IoT  for data transfer, so it was among the first commercial products in the world that support NB-IoT for the connectivity. EcoMobile ended up as a part of selected group of start-ups working at Deutsche Telekom’s NB-IoT Prototyping Hub. At Deutsche Telekom’s tech incubator hub:raum, those start-ups had a chance to adapt their existing products or develop new ones for NB-IoT technology. Additionally I'd bring your attention to the following 16 start-ups that made this selected…

Forrester is like Gartner one of the companies that is making very good technological analysis and comparisons and this reports covers industrial IoT players in the ecosystem. The important factors considered are analytics, integration with enterprise software and digital twin technology and out of 15 analyzed companies the leaders are IBM, Microsoft, SAP, PTC and C3 IoT. Apart from IBM that can hardly be ranked 1st since it doesn’t sell much to the industry the report seems quite correct. Here is the picture. More information can be found here.

Usage-based car insurance (UBI) is a relatively new concept where your insurance policy costs depends on collected data about how much do you drive, where, when and how. Telemetry allows that this data is sent in real time and thus allows dynamic changing of the cost of the insurance in dependence to the risk assessment at that moment. What's the greatest idea behind UBI? Well, for me it's the fact that we'll be rewarded for less risky driving and for the insurance companies it's probably the insurance fraud prevention. Company Octo Telematics is allowing that by offering service platform for…