SORACOM and Sigfox Partner to Drive European IoT Deployment

25 September 2017 — Today at the Sigfox World IoT Expo in Prague, SORACOM Inc., a leading provider of cloud-native connectivity solutions built specifically for Internet of Things, announced native platform support in Europe for Sigfox’s market-leading LPWA (Low Power Wide Area) connectivity. SORACOM’s customers will be able to use the SORACOM ...

Hitachi Launches New Digital Company Vantara

September 19th, 2017 | Industries & Applications • Solutions & Services • All IOT News • Analytics & Big Data • Automotive/Telematics • Building Management • Construction • Consumer-Home • Corporate IT • Energy Management • Health • IOT Platforms • Industrial Automation • Japan • Logistics • Professional Services • Retail • Safety & Security • Smart City • Software • Tracking • Vending • Water | Tags: Analytics | Big Data | Hitachi | HitachiNEXT | IOT Platform | Vantara

19 September 2017 — Hitachi, Ltd today launched Hitachi Vantara, a new business entity to leverage the broad portfolio of innovation, development and experience from across Hitachi Group companies to deliver data-driven solutions for commercial and industrial enterprises. This new company will unify the operations of Hitachi Data Systems,...

HPE and PwC Expand Partnership to Smart Cities

September 12th, 2017 | Industries & Applications • Solutions & Services • All IOT News • Analytics & Big Data • IOT Platforms • Professional Services • Smart City | Tags: IOT Platform | Smart City

12 September 2017 – Today, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a new project with long-time strategic partner, PwC, to jointly create a Center of Excellence (CoE) in Kolkata, India, to advance development for future cities. Together, HPE and PwC are capitalizing on the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape to create opportunities for city adminis...

KDDI to Acquire SORACOM

August 2nd, 2017 | Solutions & Services • Governance • All IOT News • Cloud Services • Comms Services • Countries & Regions • Deals and Finance • Development • Device Management • IOT Platforms • Japan • Rating & Billing

2 August 2017 ― KDDI Corporation today announced that it will acquire the outstanding shares of SORACOM, Inc., provider of the leading cloud-native communication platform for the Internet of Things (IoT). SORACOM, a leader in IoT, provides an IoT platform that combines over the air connectivity with cloud capability to deliver secure communication ...

The Amazon of IoT

August 1st, 2017 | Industries & Applications • Solutions & Services • Devices & Equipment • Governance • All IOT News • Automotive/Telematics • Building Management • Cloud Services • Comms Services • Countries & Regions • Development • Device Management • Devices • IOT Platforms • Interviews • Japan • People • Rating & Billing • Security • Sensors • Software • Standards & Consortia

Kenta Yasukawa Co-Founder and CTO, SORACOM, INC. “When Amazon web services came onto the market, it stimulated cloud innovations in many industries. Today, AWS powers many major brands including Netflix, Spotify, Airbnb and Lyft. We’d like to become the Amazon equivalent for IoT.” Interview by Abraham Joseph, Editorial Director, IOT In...

Samsung Electronics Launches IoT Data Monetisation Solution

July 31st, 2017 | Industries & Applications • Solutions & Services • Devices & Equipment • All IOT News • Analytics & Big Data • Building Management • Cloud Services • Consumer-Home • Devices • Energy Management • Health • IOT Platforms • Industrial Automation • Logistics • Rating & Billing • Retail • Safety & Security • Sensors • Smart City • Systems Hardware • Tracking • Vending • Water | Tags: Artik | IOT Platform | Legrand | Samsung | Smappee

31 July 2017 – Samsung Electronics today announced the launch of Samsung ARTIK™ Cloud Monetisation for the Internet of Things (IoT), a new service to monetise the data shared by IoT devices. The service enables device manufacturers and service providers to tap into an open ecosystem and create service plans that generate revenue directly from the...

SORACOM Launches IoT Device Management Service

July 5th, 2017 | Industries & Applications • Solutions & Services • All IOT News • Cloud Services • Comms Services • Countries & Regions • Device Management • IOT Platforms • Japan • Security

5 July 2017 – SORACOM, INC., a provider of cloud-native communication platforms for the Internet of Things today announce at the SORACOM Discovery conference that the new service, Soracom Inventory, will be available worldwide beginning July 5, 2017. The service allows customers to remotely manage both connections and devices through the SORACOM Io...

Senet Appoints Bruce Chatterley as CEO & President

June 12th, 2017 | Solutions & Services • Governance • All IOT News • Comms Services • People | Tags: LORA | LPWAN | Senet

12 June 2017 – Senet, a provider of public low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) for long range Internet of Things (IoT) applications supporting the LoRaWANä protocol, today announced it has named Bruce Chatterley as CEO & President. Chatterly brings more than 25 years of experience in business leadership, transformation, strategy and technolo...

Ingenu Brings IoT Connectivity to Vessel Monitoring

April 6th, 2017 | Industries & Applications • Solutions & Services • All IOT News • Comms Services • Logistics • Tracking

6 April 2017 – Ingenu Inc., a provider of Low Power Wide area (LPWA) connectivity for IoT, today announced that it will be enabling Orolia’s McMurdo Omnicom Solar Fishing Beacon to assist in vessel communication and fisheries monitoring. The Omnicom Solar solution serves the global fishing industry and will use Ingenu’s RPMA® (Random Phase Mul...

One Solution to Digital Retail Dilemmas

April 5th, 2017 | Solutions & Services • All IOT News • Insights • Retail • Safety & Security • Security

By Simon Moffatt, Senior Product Manager at ForgeRock – We live in a digital age where online shopping rules and Christmas gifts can be purchased from the comfort of our sofa/home, long after the shops have closed/at any time of the day or night. Managing and unifying cumbersome omnichannel environments to provide a secure and fluid user experi...