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Satellite IoT dreams are crashing into reality

October 19, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham 3 Comments

Several IoT startups that have built business plans around combined terrestrial and satellite networks have given up on the satellite portion of their dreams. Most recently, Hiber, a European satellite IoT provider, said this week that it will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: BlackSky, hiber, Inmarsat, Irridium, Myriota, Planet Labs, SpaceX, Spire, Swarm, TMF Associates

IoT news of the week for August 13, 2021

August 13, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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Hologram gets $65M for IoT connectivity: Hologram is a seven-year-old company that provides cellular connectivity and management tools to IoT customers. The company just raised $65 million in a round led by Tiger Global. It brings the total funding … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Apple, Cascadia Capital, FCC, fitbit, google, Hologram, SpaceX, Swarm, Vayyar

Podcast: An IoT networking bonanza

August 12, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

Elon Musk's SpaceX satellite broadband company is getting into the IoT with the acquisition of Swarm, a smallsat IoT connectivity provider. We talk about that deal, plus what it means that Helium scored $111 million in funding led by Andreessen … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: ARM, Helium, LeGrand, Netatmo, Silicon Labs, SpaceX, Swarm, Very, Waye, Wyze

IoT news of the week for Dec. 18, 2020

December 18, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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Honeywell acquires Sine to take its Honeywell Forge platform mobile: Industrial giant Honeywell said it has acquired Australian company Sine so it can boost the mobile capabilities of its Honeywell Forge automation and building management software. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Halo, edge computing, Ericsson, FreeRTOS, Home Assistant, Honeywell, Innatera, satellite, SpaceX, Tonic, z-wave

Podcast: Which IoT satellite efforts will fail?

August 22, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This week I get excited about a new home water monitoring product from Phyn while Kevin migrated his Nest account over to a Google account. We also discussed the creation of IKEA's new Home Smart business unit and Amazon's dream of putting Alexa in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: alexa, DigitalOcean, google, ikea, Iridium, Merkury Innovation, nest, Nutanix, Pepper IoT, Phyn, SpaceX, TMF Associates, Walmart

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