SpaceX is notoriously quiet when it comes to mergers, and so it came with great surprise that a company had been acquired by the spaceflight company and that company was one that deals in the Internet of Things (IoT). CNBC highlighted the early August deal, in which US$85 million (€71.75 million) was handed over for Swarm, who provide satellite-linked home IoT. This particular […]
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Most Europeans believe climate change poses the greatest existential threat. For some industries, this is cause for great concern as customers are becoming increasingly aware of the direct impact that businesses are having on the environment, says Diana Pani, senior director of wireless standards and innovation, InterDigital. For example, David Attenborough’s ‘Blue Planet’ series shone […]
In July 2021, the European Commission announced new ambitious targets for green energy. By 2030, 40% of all the energy consumed in Europe should be generated renewably. While this is great for the planet, it adds another layer of complexity to energy grid management. The solution? Smart grids. Here, Johan van der Veen, an account […]
The development of new technology often creates opportunities to provide value to customers in new products. It is common for marketers and investors to talk about finding a ‘killer app’, an application of a technology that is so desirable that it defines the core value of the technology area which enabled it in the first […]
Smart water metering is taking off in the water sector. In total revenue terms, the smart share of AMI and AMR has almost doubled from 28.2% in 2012 to 46.7% in 2020. This adoption has largely been driven by water shortages and the importance of leakage detection and water preservation, customer billing and service requirements, detection […]
As automation technologies and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) become more commonplace in modern manufacturing, the requirements of control hardware increase accordingly. However, the importance of this is often overshadowed by the focus on new sophisticated software. Here, Stephen Hayes, managing director of automation expert Beckhoff UK, explains why manufacturers should take a holistic […]
Multi-access edge computing (MEC), virtualised network function (VNF) and 5G give service providers powerful new ways to maximise scalability, flexibility and operational efficiency while enabling new services and revenue streams. However, to capitalise on those opportunities, says Sharon Dileo, director of product management at iconectiv, service providers first must have a highly accurate, industry-standard way to identify and manage […]
Any conversation about enterprise software and its target functions (in this case billing) always comes in one of two flavours, theory, and practice. With revenues from traditional telco services eroding rapidly (for example look at the disruption of SMS revenue streams by WhatsApp), Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are increasingly reliant on being able to move […]
There is no doubt that poor requirement gathering leads to bad quality of products. If this holds true for a normal software project, imagine the importance of a critical space like the Internet of Things (IoT) that is a combination of multiple disciplines. Besides just the clarity of conveying the business requirement, requests for proposals […]
Data is the new source of developmental power today, in which good quality data represents big value. On the flipside, bad data is costing businesses 30% or more of their revenue. In fact, Gartner has found the average cost of poor data quality on businesses amounts to anywhere between $9.7 million (€8.22 million) and $14.2 million […]