In this new Quickfire Interview, Jeremy Cowan, editorial director of IoT Now talks to Richie Gill, Senior Product Manager of International Advanced Connectivity at KORE, about the key challenges facing IoT service providers and enterprise customers when trying to achieve long-term, global IoT connectivity.

A WEEK IN IoT – 5G is starting strong, says Huawei. The company’s deputy chairman, Ken Hu, told its annual Mobile Broadband Forum (#MBBF) in Zurich, Switzerland last week that 5th Generation mobile communications “arrived faster than expected,” and that there are now 40 carriers in more than 20 countries supporting 136 different 5G-enabled devices.

As the number of connected devices that make up IoT proliferate, Robin Duke-Woolley, the chief executive of Beecham Research, interviews Eric Heiser the head of services and business development, at u-blox to understand the importance of implementing security that addresses five vital pillars.

In this new Quickfire Interview, Jeremy Cowan, editorial director of IoT Now talks to Nigel Chadwick, general manager and vice president of connectivity at Arm, about the greatest customer benefits of eSIMs.

Here is our latest and unrivalled list of all the major IoT (Internet of Things) contracts publicised worldwide in the last two months. It’s free to be included in The Contract Hot List, which shows the companies announcing major contract wins, acquisitions or deployments. Email your contract details to us now, marked “Hot List” at j.cowan@wkm-global.com 

Ajay Joseph is the chief technology officer of iBASIS, the provider of communications solutions that enable digital players worldwide with global access for their things. The company today serves more than 1,000 customers from 18 global offices. Here, he tells George Malim how the company is supporting organisations with secure, global, cellular connections for Internet

Billions of connected devices have caused participants in the Internet of Things (IoT) to reassess their approach to security. Jim Douglas, the chief executive officer of Wind River, tells Robin Duke-Woolley, the chief executive of Beecham Research, that developers of IoT applications and devices recognise they can no longer rely on patchwork approaches and instead

Quickfire Interview with Tim Sherwood, Vice-President of Business Development, Mobility and IoT Solutions, Tata Communications.

Information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) have been coming together in IoT for several years now. Robin Duke-Woolley, the chief executive of Beecham Research interviewed Roberto Siagri, the chief executive of Eurotech, to explore the advantages of this and assess what progress has been made in integrating the two technologies.

Lawrence Latham is the chief executive of Everynet, the provider of wholesale LoRaWAN networks for IoT. The company is building out national networks across the globe with the aim of providing robust nationwide capacity to wholesale customers at a cost that stimulates trial of new IoT use cases. Here, he tells IoT Now managing editor

From smart lights and home security systems to connected toasters.

IoT Now Magazine (ISSN 2397-2793) explores the evolving opportunities and challenges facing service providers across this sector. Our exclusive interviews pass on the key lessons learned by industry leaders in next gen Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) services.

Semtech Corporation, a provider of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products and advanced algorithms, announces the launch of the new LoRa Smart Home Devices (LLCC68d) extends LoRa’s market applications from industry-class low-power wide area networks (LPWANs) to smart home, community and consumer applications. 

Wireless Logic Group, a European IoT connectivity platform provider, has acquired Matooma, the Montpellier, France-based IoT connectivity specialist which is said to have grown rapidly since its inception in 2012.

Here is our latest and unrivalled list of all the major IoT (Internet of Things) contracts publicised worldwide in the last two months. It’s free to be included in The Contract Hot List, which shows the companies announcing major contract wins, acquisitions or deployments. Email your contract details to us now, marked “Hot List” at j.cowan@wkm-global.com 

CertNexus, the global purveyor of vendor neutral, emerging technology certifications and micro-credentials and the Internet of Things Community announced a partnership to facilitate and accelerate closing the rapidly expanding Internet of Things (IoT) skills gap.