IoT news

One of the biggest benefits of IoT and connected devices is continuous data acquisition since by analyzing this data companies can predict equipment failures, identify bottlenecks or overstaffing and many other useful informations. However, there are more than 8 billion IoT devices around the world generating huge amounts of data so apart from problems with data acquisition, storage and analysis, one of the issues to be addressed is how to effectively interpret and present this data. In the following article, there is a brief but good explanation how to come from raw data to actionable insights, how to extract value…

Netokracija brings interesting article regarding STEM resources available outside of the classroom that you can introduce to your kids.  Article is focused on the courses available in Croatia, but there's also the part covering DIY sets and some online videos and platforms, useful for those of you that are not from Croatia. Even though in Croatia there is a lot of talk about the curricular reform in schools - in the end it was more talk and less action. Unfortunately, I have a feeling that the situation is pretty similar in the rest of our SEE region. So in the meanwhile,…

Voice communications using cellular networks from 2G to 3G/LTE is with us for a long time, but does it makes sense to use voice on locations powered by batteries (low power) with LTE-M service as well? In comparison NBIoT is used for even lower powered applications and due to very low bandwidth can’t support voice. According to the chip vendors and two major USA telcos LTE-M + voice makes sense. Potential applications would be smart alarm panel or maybe in the industry vertical where a remote sensor can (apart from sending some data) be used as a voice interface from…

PLC stands for Power Line Communications and it is a way to communicate via power lines. This is a great thing since existing power lines can be used hence no additional fixed cabling and no wireless is necessary. However, there are some bandwidth and range constraints. The new IEEE 1901.1 standard that is now backed by Huawei promises to support bandwidths of up to 4 Mbit/s and range of around 1 km (bigger range can be achieved using repeaters). There are quite a lot of interesting use cases for this PLC-IoT solution including Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), smart metering solution,…

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.