IoT news

Gartner's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies is focused on technologies that are expected to bring a high level competitive advantage over the next decade - so it's interesting survey for business decision makers as well as for individuals steering their career development. Here's the article that brings 5 emerging trends in 2018's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. For anyone who is seriously looking up for fields of future technology development, I'd recommend getting the full survey from Gartner.

After its first launch of LTE-M network in Belgium, MNO Orange announced launch of  LTE-M network in France and they plan to launch it in Romania and Spain by the end of 2018. Also, LTE-M compatible devices will be listed on Orange's marketplace for IoT devices and connectivity - Datavenue Market. This news wouldn't be so interesting if Orange isn't already national LoRaWAN operator in France. According to Orange there's a room for coexistence of LoRaWAN and CIoT (Cellular IoT) like LTE-M and NB-IoT. They see LTE-M use cases in logistics, telemonitoring, remote assistance, fleet management but also they also…

For utility companies there are several reasons why they should own their own networks and not rely on public cellular networks: reliability and latency, connectivity in rural areas, no over-subscription (hence they work the same way in disaster scenarios). The new worldwide standard, IEEE 802.16s, was released in October 2017. Some more information about the standard and about the MC-IoT networks can be found in this article.

From its very beginnings, some general idea of medicine is to make people live longer, healthier and at the end happier. There were many breakthough discoveries in the filed of medicine, but it seems that today's digital technology could truly transform the healthcare - from improving patient treatment to balancing workload for the nurses and doctors. There are many possible adaptation of  innovative technology in healthcare: from VR and AI applications to tracking hospital inventory. Here are some of my discoveries that I see as ones with great potential.  Navenio that has in cooperation with University of Oxford developed infrastructure-free,…

I'd say that this is one of IoT classics: simple and effective improvement of a day to day life process. Moocall team found out that there's a high mortality rate during the calving process, so they came up wit the solution - Moocall calving sensor.  The device measures the tail movement to predict the onset of calving and trigger an alert on time. They built a sustainable business that is covering all the elements needed for customer satisfaction (reliable product, easy to use management dashboard and application, online store, online instructions and best practices, customer support, benefit analysis). This also gave them a…

I have recently stumbled upon Twillio and it's definitely quite an interesting company. The company main focus is handling the backend and connecting to various telecom hardware by exposing a globally available cloud API that developers can use to build communications systems. Here I am writing about the products called Super SIM (one SIM to connect IoT devices globally) and Narrowband (the SDK and developer kit for the NB-IoT). The Super SIM is done in partnerships with Singtel, Telefonica and Three group to provide a SIM card that works everywhere in the world. The Narrowband focus is currently only on…