News: IOT Platforms

IOTech and Microsoft Announce Edge XRT Platform to support Microsoft Azure Sphere

4 March 2021 – IOTech, the edge software company, today announced the launch of Edge XRT, its time-critical edge platform for Microsoft Azure Sphere. Designed and optimized for resource-constrained environments, Edge XRT delivers out-of-the-box devi...

WeMaintain Acquires PropTech Startup Shokly to Drive Building Operations

9 February 2021 – WeMaintain, a tech-enabled lift maintenance company, has acquired French startup Shokly, a company specialising in fire alarm maintenance and management. The acquisition is aimed at increasing WeMaintain’s presence in the smart bui...

Looking Ahead: New Tech Brings a New Set of Barriers to Consider

17 November 2020 – Increased investment in IoT is paving the way for a new phase of fully digitalized supply chain management. The trend was largely influenced by the pandemic-related workforce layoffs and mandatory state lockdowns. Smart logistic sol...

BICS and Gurtam Partner for Global Telematics Services

29 October 2020 – International communications enabler BICS today announces its partnership with telematics software provider Gurtam to provide IoT asset monitoring and fleet management on a global scale. The collaboration combines BICS’ global IoT n...

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-leadin...

Hitachi Launches New Digital Company 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 commercia...

HPE and PwC Expand Partnership to Smart Cities

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...

KDDI to Acquire SORACOM

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 pla...

The Amazon of IoT

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 becom...

Samsung Electronics Launches IoT Data Monetisation Solution

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 prov...