According to a new research report from IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, global shipments of NB-IoT devices reached 53 million units in 2018. Annual shipments are expected to almost triple in 2019 reaching 142 million units. Commercial deployments are essentially confined to China, where the semiconductor companies HiSilicon and MediaTek account for a large part […]
Presentation: Petastorm: A Light-Weight Approach to Building ML Pipelines
Yevgeni Litvin describes how Petastorm facilitates tighter integration between Big Data and Deep Learning worlds; simplifies data management and data pipelines; and speeds up model experimentation. By Yevgeni Litvin
Kerlink and Tata Communications Transformation Services Launch Partnership to Expand LoRaWAN® Network Deployments
Tata Communications Transformation Services & Kerlink to Offer Turnkey IoT Solutions Such As Network Consulting, Applications, Sensors, Connectivity, and Operations Management. Kerlink and Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Communications Limited, today announced a partnership to promote and deploy LoRaWAN® IoT networks globally. The partnership was announced at the LoRa […]
PTC Announces ThingWorx 8.5 to Help Customers Drive Digital Transformation to New Levels
New Capabilities Enable Businesses to Leverage the Power of Industrial IoT. PTC today announced the upcoming release of its ThingWorx® Industrial IoT (IIoT) platform from the show floor of the LiveWorx® digital transformation event. ThingWorx 8.5 combines new capabilities with world-class, domain-specific solutions to better serve the digital transformation needs of industrial enterprises worldwide. Among […]
Sierra Wireless Announces Strategic Collaboration with Microsoft to Develop One of the Industry’s First Full-Stack IoT Solutions
Sierra Wireless edge-to-cloud solutions integrated with Microsoft Azure IoT Central will simplify and accelerate time-to-value for enterprise IoT projects. Sierra Wireless today announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to provide one of the industry’s first full-stack IoT solutions. Sierra Wireless’ new Octave edge data orchestration solution has been successfully connected with Microsoft Azure IoT Central. […]
Quectel Receives T-Mobile US Certifications for LTE Cat 1 and Cat 4 Modules
Quectel Wireless Solutions announced that T-Mobile US has certified the eight variants of Quectel’s best-selling LTE EC2x family. The approved modules are: ·EC21-A LTE Cat 1 module ·EC21-A Mini PCIe Cat 1 module ·EC25-A LTE Cat 4 module ·EC25-A Mini PCIe LTE Cat 4 module ·EC25-AF LTE Cat 4 module ·EC25-AF LTE Cat 4 data-only […]
Microsoft FHIR Server for Azure extends to SQL
This blog post was co-authored by Doug Seven, Senior Director, Microsoft Health Engineering and Michael Hansen, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Health Engineering. Since the launch of the open source FHIR Server for Azure on GitHub last November, we have been humbled by the tremendously positive response and surge in the use of FHIR in the […]
Taking advantage of the new Azure Application Gateway V2
We recently released Azure Application Gateway V2 and Web Application Firewall (WAF) V2. These SKUs are named Standard_v2 and WAF_v2 respectively and are fully supported with a 99.95% SLA. The new SKUs offer significant improvements and additional capabilities to customers: Autoscaling allows elasticity for your application by scaling the application gateway as needed based on […]
Shipments of cellular IoT modules reached 221 million units in 2018
Berg Insight estimates that global cellular IoT module shipments increased by 16 percent in 2018 to a new record level of 221 million. Annual revenues grew faster at 24 percent, reversing the previous trend of decreasing average module prices. The 3GPP standards for LTE – Cat M and NB-IoT – will contribute substantially to growth […]
NB-IoT and Cat-M technologies will account for 45 percent of cellular IoT connections in 2024
Key findings from the latest Ericsson Mobility Report (June 2019): Cellular IoT connections are predicted to increase from 1 billion in 2018 to 4.1 billion in 2024. By the end of 2024, nearly 35 percent of Cellular IoT connections will be Broadband IoT, with 4G connecting the majority. The first modules supporting Critical IoT use […]