Season 4 of IoT Unplugged returned with a bang as the first episode looked at the future of cellular connectivity, bringing insights from Sabrina Bochen, Director, Product Planning and Marketing at u-blox. Bochen highlighted there had been substantial growth in…
The user experience and growth of LoRaWAN: Blynk talks to IoT Insider
Blynk, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year following its launch in 2014, recently announced a partnership with The Things Conference, an event focused on LoRaWAN and low-power IoT, in a move that the company’s Founder and CEO, Pavlo…
Investing in LTE-M: Telit Cinterion and Sony Semiconductor Israel talk to IoT Insider
News of Telit Cinterion celebrating the approval of its ME310M1-W1 module on AT&T’s network showed how a continued, close collaboration between Telit Cinterion and Sony Semiconductor Israel bore fruit. The module is a Cellular Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) device…
Reflecting on IoT Tech Expo Europe: an event to discuss and share challenges
IoT Tech Expo Europe took place at RAI Amsterdam over a two-day period, from 1-2 October, and served as the meeting point for IoT professionals to come together to discuss technologies, challenges and the state of the IoT industry, more…
How IoT is being applied to telecoms: panel at IoT Tech Expo Europe 2024
How IoT is being applied to telecommunications, its use cases and its evolving role were all discussed at length in a panel at day two of IoT Tech Expo Europe. Moderated by Benedict Gromann, Public Policy Manager at Connect Europe,…
£8 billion investment from AWS for the UK
As of the 11th September, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the UK government has secured an £8 billion investment from Amazon Web Services (AWS) which it said it anticipated will support thousands of jobs across the UK. The jobs expected to…
Considering the energy consumption of a Raspberry Pi
The energy consumption of a Raspberry Pi single-board computer (SBC) is an important consideration for IoT engineers who are looking to develop energy-efficient applications, particularly for battery-powered wireless devices. The growth of these devices have fed a need for energy-efficient…
Weighing up ambient IoT and RAIN RFID: experts share their thoughts
Sometimes, the emergence of new technology is assumed to take the place of the pre-existing technology because it offers new benefits and features that trump the previous. This is not necessarily the case in ambient IoT, an emerging technology that…
New metamaterial is expected to improve satellite communications
There is certainly no shortage of technologies, time and investment being poured into satellite connectivity, as the anticipated 3GPP Release 18 will further integrate satellite non-terrestrial network (NTN) access into 5G. In more recent news, researchers from the University of…
Designing and optimising real-time kinematics systems
Real-time kinematics (RTK) is a satellite navigation technique that offers precise positioning accuracy by using data from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). We’ve covered satellite positioning on IoT Insider – more specifically looking at GNSS, GPS and now, RTK, to…
