Internet of Things

PoLTE Corp and Riot Micro are collaborating to enable ultra-low power LTE IoT chips with  accurate location positioning for indoor and outdoor applications. The collaboration combines the advantages of Riot Micro’s RM1000 with those of PoLTE’s Lite-Touch location architecture. Riot Micro will support PoLTE’s location interface in the RM1000, the industry’s lowest power baseband modem chip for the cellular IoT. ...

I've been keeping an eye on Android Things - Google's Android-friendly approach to IoT - and apparently it's finding its way on to the floors of CES 2018, and AI is involved.

The MIPI mobile interface organisation is opening access to its sensor interface specification, called MIPI I3C.

Farnell element14 has a range of LoRaWAN products from The Things Network. The Things Gateway, The Things Uno and The Things Node which enable users to create LoRaWAN internet of things networks quickly and easily. Using The Things Network Gateway you can setup a LoRaWAN network in just 5 minutes – you can then use The Things Node to create ...

Electronics Weekly joins with Chipless Ltd to discuss the IoT and security in a webinar entitled 'IoT KnowHow: Securing Your Connected Technology'

Riot Micro, a Vancouver LTE start-up, comes out of stealth mode today to announce it is sampling a baseband processor for the NB-IoT and LTE Cat M1 standards which claims to beat existing chips for power and price. The chip is designated RM1000 and comes in an 8 x 8-mm 68-pad QFN package or a 3.5 x 3.2-mm WLCSP. The ...

Fujitsu Labs has developed a miniature sensor powered by a solar cell to support LPWA wireless transmission. The device measures 82x24x6mm and Fujitsu says it is the world’s smallest sensor device supporting LPWA that does not need replacement batteries. Temperature and humidity data collected by the sensor can be transmitted to a Sigfox base station over a distance of about ...

IAR Systems embedded compilers now support the  Amazon FreeRTOS. Together with Amazon Web Services (AWS), IAR Systems provides developers with easy access to high-performance, pre-integrated development tools for developing and debugging embedded and IoT-connected applications based on Amazon FreeRTOS. Amazon FreeRTOS is an operating system for hardware running IoT applications which can support large numbers of devices. Based on the ...

Deloitte is to provide cyber-threat hunting services to companies in the EMEA region using the threat-hunting technology provided by Sqrrl. Threat hunting, in Deloitte’s definition, is the active search for cyber adversaries that have slipped past other defences. With the developing sophistication of ‘low and slow’, it said, and the growing impact of data breaches, the need for threat hunting ...

NXP's MCU-based IoT module with onboard Wi-Fi and support for newly launched Amazon FreeRTOS on AWS