India’s Mobile Operators are investing in deploying NB-IoT Technology for Smart-Cities and relevant Use-Cases.
Bharti Airtel will invest in NB-IoT and is currently looking into the Use-Cases that their customer’s request, according to the Head of Digital Products and IoT.
Reliance will launch NB-IoT in 2020 and Vodafone IDEA started already in February 2019 to pilot the Technology.
China Mobile Hong Kong's (CMHK) opened its newest flagship store in Central last Friday, its first-ever 5G experience store to the public. The store was built to demonstrate and explain how 5G and other technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) open new opportunities.
Customers can experience 5G's low latency and high-volume transmission over multiple simultaneous connections, and learn about the importance of applying 5G technology to commercial and innovative technology sectors – all explained in a comprehensive and easy way.
https://futureiot.tech/new-cmhk-5g-store-shows-iot-based-apps-for-smart-city/
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – Nokia and Zain Saudi Arabia have taken a significant step towards the creation of an IoT ecosystem in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the successful trial of NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things) technology at a live site in Mina area of Makkah Province.
Sensefinity is co-founder of the new Collaborative Laboratory (CoLAB) Foodlab - Collaborative Laboratory for sustainable food production systems.
The FoodLAB CoLAB, starting next September, will bring together institutions and companies to work on thematic issues relevant to advanced food production techniques with potential for carbon sequestration. The goal is to create a collaborative laboratory where various technologies can be tested (by large companies and emerging companies including startups) to improve food production processes in terms of CO2 mitigation, zero use of artificial chemicals, environmental impact and efficiency of the entire value chain. From the seed to the distribution of the products to the final consumer, the objective is to create biological products with low environmental impact and accessible to the growing population.
Sensefinity’s Internet of Cargo will be key to providing digitalization of the supply-chain to provide efficient food preservation avoiding waste.
NB-IoT Coverage
in Australia
Telstra is providing NBIoT coverage and LTE-M coverage in Australia.
This is good news, and provides you with the possibility to use Sensefinity’s new, battery-saving NBIoT Trackers now in Australia as well!
Here you can check the geographical availability of both IoT connectivity protocols:
https://www.telstra.com.au/business-enterprise/solutions/internet-of-things/iot-coverage
Now with the advent of NB-IoT in the USA we start to see how Narrowband Technologies will be able to work seamlessly in a global fashion to start replacing GSM as the global standard for M2M solutions.
A truly global solution for the Internet of Cargo will eventually be able to emerge based on low unit-costs and long battery lifetime.
The hottest application areas for IoT in manufacturing include Industrial Asset Management, Inventory and Warehouse Management and Supply Chain Management. In high tech manufacturing, Smart Products, and Industrial Asset Management are the hottest application areas according to Forrester.
Sensefinity NB-IoT Trackers, Sensors and Gateways service this market.
Using the Internet of Cargo, innovative emergency services can now be created.
The World Federation of Sign Languages launched a service to provide ubiquitous tracking of people in need to have simplified access to emergency services.
The wearablebraille project was awarded several awards and is now live at the Wearablebraille site.
