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...]
IoT news of the week for August 13, 2021
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...]
Podcast: An IoT networking bonanza
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...]
Podcast: Safe words for smart homes and cheap mesh
We start this week's show with a $200 million funding for Wiliot, a company I profiled back in 2017 as one of the vanguards of low-power sensing. Then we tackle a creative idea that could see consumers create safe words for their smart homes to … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for April 30, 2021
Microsoft discovers 25 security vulnerabilities in OT devices: Security researchers at Microsoft have shared research showing that a large class of industrial and embedded IoT devices are vulnerable to a class of memory allocation function … [Read more...]