Low Power Wide Area Network is Enabling Projects Designed to Increase Efficiency. Comcast today announced a collaboration between its enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) service, MachineQ, and Universal Parks and Resorts, to use low power wide area networking (LPWAN) technology for IoT projects at its Orlando location. Using MachineQ’s integrated hardware and software platform, which […]
EU and ESA are part of €10 million grant for NanoAvionics’ Global IoT nano-satellite constellation
EU’S Horizon 2020 and ESA are part of €10 million grant for NanoAvionics’ global IoT constellation-as-a-service aimed at IoT/M2M communications providers. NanoAvionics, an international nano-satellite missions integrator, and the consortium partners KSAT (Kongsberg Satellite Services) and Antwerp Space have been awarded EUR 10 million funding by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020, ESA’s ARTES and private […]
Presentation: People You May Know: Fast Recommendations over Massive Data
Sumit Rangwala, Felix GV present the evolution of PYMK’s (People You May Knpw) architecture, focusing on Gaia, a real-time graph computing capability and Venice, an online feature store with scoring capability. By Sumit Rangwala, Felix GV
AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom activate LTE-M roaming across North America and Europe
AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom have activated LTE-M roaming across their respective IoT networks. This enables IoT Low Power devices to efficiently operate on multiple networks across North America and Europe. LTE-M enables a host of IoT applications with lower costs, compact modules, longer battery life and the ability to penetrate hard-to-reach locations. The network […]
Semtech’s LoRa® Technology Integrated into Axino’s Smart Refrigeration Solutions
LoRa-based sensors deploy provide real-time temperature data to meet food safety requirements and hundreds of thousands of savings a year. Semtech Corporation announced that Axino Solutions, an innovative software and systems integrator for the planning and implementation of comprehensive IT solutions, has integrated Semtech’s LoRa® devices and wireless technology into its smart refrigeration solutions to […]
Sequans’ Monarch LTE-M Chip Successfully Completes Interoperability Testing with NTT DOCOMO
Sequans Communications S.A. announced successful completion of interoperability testing of its Monarch LTE-M chip with NTT DOCOMO, Inc., Japan’s largest mobile operator. Monarch is the most advanced LTE-M chip solution, providing the ultra-low power consumption and enhanced coverage capabilities necessary to ensure successful IoT business cases. Monarch is currently being used in IoT devices that […]
LoRa Alliance™ Expands LoRaWAN® Device Certification Program
New LoRaWAN® Certification Test Tool Pretests Devices, Saving Members Time and Money to Improve Device Reliability and Achieve Certification. The LoRa Alliance, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® protocol for the Internet of Things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), announced today that it has significantly expanded its LoRaWAN certification program. The enhanced […]
Artificial Intelligence: What’s Hype & What’s Certain?
Regardless of which piece of visual media or literature first instilled thoughts of artificial intelligence in our minds, it had quite the effect on us. Despite AI being very much a part of our current society, many of us don’t realize it’s here. Instead we’re fixed on dystopian futures and malevolent machines. In reality, AI […]
Digital Panopticon: Why Privacy is a Human Right
Let me start with one of my favorite visualizations of surveillance (not my original idea). In the late 18th century, an English philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, designed a brutally efficient prison architecture. The main innovation is quite simple: prison cells are arranged in a circular format surrounding a central watchtower. The watchtower theoretically only needs to […]
AI Makes it Harder to Understand What’s Real
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Computers were as good or better than doctors at detecting tiny lung cancers on CT scans, in a study by researchers from Google and several medical centers…[b]y feeding huge amounts of data from medical imaging into systems called artificial neural networks, researchers can train computers to recognize patterns linked to a specific condition, […]