Category: IoT Control & Security

Royal Mail has partnered with tech innovator Wiliot to transform the way it tracks items travelling through its network, using breakthrough digital tagging to provide unprecedented visibility. As well as improving efficiency and reliability, this will help the company on its target of being Net-Zero by 2040 by optimising vehicle use depending on volume and reducing overall fuel use. Royal Mail is about to complete tagging its 850,000 containers, called Yorks, which are used to transport customers’ parcels and letters around the country, and has plans to use the digital…

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Japanese electronics manufacturer Murata has combined with Germany-based security technology group Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) on a cellular IoT module that supports both the new SGP.32 remote SIM provisioning (RSP) specification and new integrated SIM (iSIM) technology. The pair called it a “world first”, and said it ushers in a new era of reduced size, complexity, and cost for cellular IoT projects. The module in question is the so-called Type 2GD unit from Murata, offering dual-mode Release 17-level LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity; it uses an iSIM, and works with G+D’s SGP.32-compliant SIM…

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UK water utility Yorkshire Water has appointed Netmore Group to swap-out 1.3 million water meters across the Yorkshire region for smart LoRaWAN-connected meters over a five year period. Sweden-based LoRaWAN network operator Netmore Group, with infrastructure operations across Europe and the US, and a burgeoning LoRaWAN footprint in Asia Pacific, said it represents “one of Europe’s largest LoRaWAN water metering projects”. Netmore Group was selected as the lead partner following a tender process. Yorkshire Water has experience already with cellular-based NB-IoT metering, as well; the decision to award Netmore Group…

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Recently, RoboSense announced its business progress for the first half year of 2024, demonstrating a high-growth trajectory and maintaining its leadership in the global market. For the six months ended June 30, 2024, RoboSense’s sales volume of LiDAR products and LiDAR products for ADAS applications amounted to approximately 243,400 and 234,500 units, separately reflecting a year-on-year increase of 415.7% and 487.7%. As OEMs rapidly pursued advancements in intelligent technology, RoboSense achieved nearly its 2023 annual sales volume in the first half year of 2024. RoboSense and the global automotive industry’s…

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The Phoenix Water Services Department’s Conservation Team has developed a simulation game to test residents’ ability to manage the City’s water portfolio. The Drought Simulation Game (Drought Sim) is designed as an educational resource to help residents better understand why it’s important to protect the water supply and what’s at stake each time a water management decision is made, no matter how small. Role of a water policymaker In the simulation game, players are assigned the role of water policymaker for a large city – impacted by a difficult drought…

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US-based Cellular Tracking Technologies (CTT), which makes IoT solutions for wildlife monitoring, has developed a solution with Swiss IoT module maker u-blox to track a penguin colony on Ross Island, in Antarctica. The company was tasked by US wildlife conservation organisation Point Blue to come up with an IoT tracker to enable scientists to track and monitor the diving and feeding behaviour of a large Adélie penguin colony on Ross Island, in Antarctica. The Adélie penguin is one of only five species of penguins in Antarctica, and serves as a…

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Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.7 per cent, the global installed base of smart street lights is forecast to reach 63.8 million by the end of 2027. According to a new research report from IoT analyst Berg Insight, the installed base of smart streetlights amounted to 23 million at the end of 2022. Europe leads the adoption of smart street lighting technology and accounted for as much as 35 per cent of the global installed base in 2022. North America is catching up with Europe and…

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Vaisala, a specialist in weather, environmental, and industrial measurements, has launched a compact weather station aimed at cities, road authorities and industrial zones for weather and environmental monitoring. According to Vaisala, whether assessing road conditions, air pollution, or other environmental challenges, the flexible and scalable Beam weather station empowers communities to leverage weather, environmental and road state observations to localise intelligence to fit their specific needs. Denser observation networks Beam is designed as a turnkey monitoring station that provides access to reliable information on air pollutants, solar radiation, flooding, snow…

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The installed base of smart electricity meters in Latin America is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 21.7 per cent from 2022 through to 2028, according to a new research report. Last year, the penetration of smart electricity meters in the region reached 6.2 per cent in 2022. For the purposes of the study, Latin America is defined as the South American countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay as well at the Central American countries – Costa Rica, Mexico and Panama. Installed units…

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Hardware, connectivity and service revenue from future and in-use smart meter deployments will exceed $60bn in 2027, up from $41bn in 2023, a news study predicts. According to the analyst Juniper Research, this 44 per cent growth reflects how smart meters are becoming critical to increasing the efficiency of energy grids via analytics and are central to lowering costs to customers during the energy price crisis. A smart meter records energy usage and leverages onboard connectivity to upload this data to energy suppliers. Smart grid opportunities By 2027, the report…

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