Network & Infrastructure

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.

Taichung, Taiwan, 30 August 2022 – Gogoro Inc., a global technology specialist in battery swapping ecosystems that enable sustainable mobility solutions for cities, has announced it is partnering with Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) and Taichung City Taiwan to launch GoShare, Gogoro’s electric mobility sharing service for the residents of Taichung City, Taiwan’s second most populated.

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.

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.

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.

Taipei, Taiwan, 31 August 2022 – Advantech, a global embedded computing provider, is pleased to announce a pair of new SQFlash PCIe Gen.4 SSD solutions: the SQF 930 and SQF ER-1. IoT is driving surging demand for high-performance storage.

31 August 2022 – Satellite IoT specialist Wyld Networks has signed a partnership with the Swiss-based provider of the Internet of Things, Miromico AG. As part of the agreement, Miromico will help Wyld with the design, engineering and manufacture of its next generation of low-power, sensor-to-satellite LoRaWAN terminals and modules for IoT applications across areas

29 August 2022 – Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, has announced that its 5G NR module RM520N-GL, compliant with 3GPP Release 16 (R16) standards, has been certified to operate on T-Mobile’s 5G and LTE-A networks in the United States.

Amsterdam, Netherlands. 30 August 2022 – Niger Delta Petroleum Resources (NDPR), a Nigerian independent oil and gas company, has selected Hiber‘s HiberHilo satellite-powered remote well-monitoring solution to deliver real-time production data from wells scattered across the oil-rich Niger Delta region. 

Panama City. 23 August 2022 – Globalstar, has partnered with Globalsat Group to deploy a jointly developed IoT solution powered by Globalstar’s satellite network designed to monitor renewable energy stations located in remote areas of Latin America. The initial deployment will include 23,000 devices throughout the region with an expectation of additional opportunities in the short term.

Fishers, Ind., 25 August 2022 – ClearObject has been selected as the GCP Approved Migration Service Integrator (SI) for North America. Working closely with Google’s Product team, ClearObject has built Google approved upfront diagnostic discovery and templates for migration. With over a decade’s worth of experience in the Internet of Things, ClearObject is the most well-established company in

New York, United States. 26 August, 2022 – Tuya Smart, a global IoT development platform service provider, has been expanding its commitment to promoting universal open standards that enable IoT products to securely connect and interact.