IoT’s digitisation of healthcare speeds up but device downtime and security concerns remain, says SOTI

As the pandemic disrupted traditional patient service models, the healthcare sector overwhelmingly adopted remote and telehealth technology solutions. New global research from SOTI, A critical investment: Taking the pulse of technology in healthcare, shows nearly all global healthcare providers (98%) offering frontline services have implemented IoT/telehealth medical device capabilities.

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Semtech acquires Sierra Wireless for $1.2bn:
Fulton tells IoT Now why and what’s next

California-based Semtech, a global supplier of high-performance chips and algorithms for infrastructure and industrial equipment, is to acquire Canada’s Internet of Things (IoT) solution provider Sierra Wireless. In the latest QuickFire Video, IoT Now’s Jeremy Cowan talks to Semtech’s general manager for IoT, Wireless and Sensing businesses, about the reasons for the deal, the timing,

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How to make the right IoT business connections in a changing market

“IoT is on the cusp of massive growth as technologies and market conditions converge to allow enterprises of all sizes to deploy IoT solutions globally.”

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Security of devices becomes a prime concern and needs to be addressed at the design stage

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

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Why IT and OT integration and IoT edge processing are paving the way for AI

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.

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Interoperable and open networks build the IoT ecosystem at minimal cost

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

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Sierra Wireless goes up an Octave for end device monitoring

As IoT matures, organisations are looking for a set of capabilities and microservices that encompass their cloud and connectivity needs from installation, through to device management, monitoring and location based services. They are increasingly looking for these functionalities packaged together and offered for a monthly rental fee, thereby simplifying management, enabling transparent cost control and

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Accurate monitoring means more effective management of IoT infrastructure

Network monitoring specialist Paessler AG, based in Nuremberg, Germany, and IoT services and low power wide area network (LPWAN) connectivity provider Sigfox, based in Labege, France, announced a partnership agreement in October 2018. The agreement includes the delivery of Paessler’s PRTG Network Monitor for IoT solutions that will enable monitoring data from Sigfox-enabled IT infrastructure

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Is AWS about to disrupt the IoT connectivity market cloud-style?

In an exclusive interview with IoT Now, Eseye’s chairman and CEO, Nick Earle and marketing director, David Thompson reveal their plans with their partner, hypercloud company Amazon Web Services (AWS). The plan? Nothing less than turning Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity services on their head. Editorial director, Jeremy Cowan reports.

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IoT democratisation accelerated with quickstart approach

Bernd Gross is the newly-appointed chief technology officer of Software AG, having joined the company as part of its acquisition of Cumulocity, of which he was chief executive. Now, as the Internet of Things continues to mature, he explains how organisations can access common foundational technologies and tools to accelerate their deployments, while still keeping

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How Nexus Integra enables the digital transformation of industrial companies

Competition requires that industrial companies embrace the journey of digital transformation through the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Nexus Integra enables that journey. IoT Analytics interviewed Salvador Herrando, the chief operations officer and co-founder of Nexus Integra, to discover how the Spanish company is helping industrial companies, water utilities and others to embrace the digital

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Cradlepoint’s Elastic Edge provides blueprint for secure, scalable and costeffective 4G and 5G networks for IoT

George Mulhern is CEO and chairman of the board at Cradlepoint, a provider of cloud-delivered LTE network solutions for business, service providers and government organisations that was established in 2006.

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IoT is the lineman for the county

MultiTech designs, develops and manufactures data communications equipment – cellular and LoRAWAN modems, routers and gateways – for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Bill Ingle, a senior analyst at Beecham Research, interviews Sara Brown, the vice president of marketing, and Gregg Zastrow, the senior manager of programmes and partnerships, at MultiTech, to understand how

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Nokia WING lets operators take flight with enterprise IoT customers

Ankur Bhan, is global head of Nokia’s Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING), which focuses on enabling its telecoms operator customers to provide seamless IoT connectivity to their customers. He recently met Analysys Mason research director Tom Rebbeck in Dubai to provide an update on the project’s progress since it was first announced in early 2017.

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Spanish cities served efficiently with smart water software suite

Jaime Barba Sevillano is the chief executive of go-aigua, a provider of smart water utility IoT solutions and the name of a software suite of smart solutions dedicated to the improvement of efficiency of water industry processes. Bill Ingle, a senior analyst at Beecham Research, interviewed him to learn more about the company and the

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Cost is the definitive issue for an IoT solution to be scalable

Semtech is a US-based supplier of high performance semiconductors and advanced algorithms for communications and industrial end-markets. The company’s LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology – LoRa – offers long range, low power wireless connectivity that has become a leader in the low power wide area (LPWA) networking market worldwide. The company is a

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