Listen to an interview with Heather Reed-Fenske, chief information technology officer at the City of Calgary. She discusses how Calgary has built a sensor network on top of its existing city-wide fiber network. Read more
The City of Calgary in Alberta, Canada unveiled four new smart city initiatives Monday, designed to make use of sensors and the internet of things (IoT) to improve air quality, disabled services, climate and speed of play on its golf courses. Read more
Semtech Corp to integrate Skyworks’ front-end solutions with their next-generation LoRa (Long Range) devices and wireless radio frequency technology for picocell gateways. Read more
A handful of growers and other food companies are piloting a wireless sensor system from Teralytic that uses Semtech LoRaWAN chips built into sensor probes to capture and interpret data about a farm's soil conditions, including temperature, moisture and fertilizer levels. Read more
LPWA (Low Power Wide Area) technologies strengthen the business case for IoT solutions, offering a cost and power efficient wireless option that leverages existing networks, global reach and strong built-in security. Read more
Whether the internet of things use case is smart cities or connected cows, the real value in IoT is not in the devices or charging for connectivity, but in analytics and applications, according to Bill Beesley, Fujitsu Network Communications’ principal solutions architect. Read more
Semtech Corporation recently announced it is broadening access to network-generated location data and providing Cloud services to support the rapid development of location-based solutions for LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology. Read more
In the last few weeks, several companies have announced plans to build IoT networks using satellites and a variety of networking technologies. Read more
NTT DOCOMO, INC. and NTT DOCOMO USA, Inc. announced today the immediate launch of an IoT-driven temperature- and humidity-monitoring service for industrial refrigerators and freezers in the United States. DOCOMO developed the service in collaboration with myDevices, an IoT solutions company based in Los Angeles, California that provides IoT technology based on LoRa®, a wireless data communication technology for low-power, extra-long-range transmissions. Read more