Companies

Gateway devices are used in nearly every IoT market. Factors driving the growth of gateways over the next five years include the transition to cellular from fixed line, replacement of 2G/3G gateways, as well as rapid growth in the industrial and infrastructure markets. This latest iteration reflects a post-COVID view of the gateway market. Global

SAP Smart Air Purifiers and NBDAir are excited to introduce, at IFA 2022, Berlin, the AQ air quality economiser for schools and meeting spaces system. The system provides a means by which to closely monitor air quality through one simple-to-manage dashboard, to provide good air quality in classrooms and meeting spaces while saving energy substantially

Telink and Nowi reinforce their existing partnership by launching an energy autonomous wireless connectivity module. This new product offering enables additional energy harvesting use-cases by further reducing bill of material size, cost and complexity.

Toronto, Ontario. 01 September, 2022 – Geotab Inc., a global provider in IoT and connected transportation, announced to have its emissions reduction targets validated and approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Geotab’s targets meet the criteria required to keep the global temperature rise limited to 1.5°C,  the most ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement.

Airzone, a worldwide industry specialist in dynamic HVAC control solutions, is entering the rapidly growing North American market with an exclusive smart control solution for HVAC inverter systems.

Berlin, Germany, 03 September, 2022 – Tuya Smart, a global IoT development platform service provider, hosted “Tuya Day” with European brands and partners at the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin. Under the theme “Accelerating Smart Sustainability,” Tuya’s industry partners from lighting, entertainment, heating, and more spoke on how smart solutions can reduce energy

Luxembourg, Dhahran, Athens. 01 September, 2022 – OQ Technology, a global 5G IoT (Internet of Things) satellite operator, has closed a €13 million  Series A funding round led by Wa’ed Ventures, the venture capital arm at Aramco (the Saudi oil and gas company), and Phaistos Investment Fund, managed by 5G Ventures in Greece.

Sunnyvale, California. 30 August 2022 – Trimble announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Bilberry, a French technology company specialising in selective spraying systems for sustainable farming. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022, subject to certain closing conditions and regulatory approval. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Thalwil, Switzerland, and Seoul, South Korea. 30 August 2022 – u-blox, a global provider of positioning and wireless communication technologies and services, has announced the expansion of its PointPerfect global navigation satellite system (GNSS) augmentation service to the South Korean market as of the 1st of September 2022. It is the PPP-RTK (Precise Point Positioning, Real-Time Kinematic) high

26 August 2022 – Tuya Smart, an IoT development platform service provider, joined hands with 3 of its Spanish partners Imprex Europe S.L, Energeeks Iberia S.L, and Nivian for the BornSmart campaign, taking place across a range of social media channels.

Milpitas, United States – SMART Global Holdings, Inc., announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Stratus Technologies, a global provider in simplified, protected, and autonomous computing solutions in the data centre and at the Edge.

Osaka & Tokyo, Japan – Kubota Corporation and Accenture have formed a new joint venture company, Kubota Data Ground, Inc., to accelerate the digital transformation (DX) of the Kubota group’s business model and operating infrastructure. The new company will begin operations on September 1, 2022.

Tokyo, Japan – Bridgestone Corporation announced that the company is using Amazon Web Services, Inc. as its strategic cloud provider in support of the company’s sustainable mobility solutions. Using AWS Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and analytics / business intelligence services, Bridgestone will accelerate the creation of digital platforms to launch new solutions for its customers, improve

This is the age of distributed network environments. The wave of transformation brought about by digitisation, the Internet of Things and increasingly decentralised hardware landscapes and systems brings new challenges for IT departments, says Alan Stewart-Brown, VP EMEA, Opengear.

Taipei, Taiwan, 1 September 2022 – Advantech, a provider of embedded computing solutions, is pleased to announce that its UNO series of IoT edge gateways have qualified for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Internet of Things (IoT) Greengrass, an IoT open source edge runtime and cloud service that facilitates the development, deployment, and management of device

Luxembourg, 1 September 2022 – OQ Technology, a global 5G IoT (Internet of Things) satellite operator, has closed a 13 million Euro Series A funding round led by Wa’ed Ventures, the ventue capital arm at Aramco (the Saudi oil and gas company), and Phaistos Investment Fund, managed by 5G Ventures in Greece.