Smart Industries

The Benefits of Bundling Cellular Modules and Connectivity Solutions

In most industries, sourcing from one vendor is more efficient and less risky than having multiple providers to manage. This principle holds for IoT, particularly when bundling connectivity with a cellular module. As with [...]

Removing frustration from IoT deployments

Steve Rogerson talks with Alistair Fulton about his recent move to Blues. There is much frustration when it come to the IoT. Many companies now understand the benefits of [...]

Is AI just what IoT has been waiting for?

Steve Rogerson asks how AI will change the outlook for IoT. A few years ago, when listening to a talk on how one day personal health devices would feed [...]

Advantech celebrates forty years building an intelligent planet

On the occasion of Advantech’s 40th anniversary, Steve Rogerson talks with co-founder KC Liu about how the company has changed. Back in 1983, you may not have noticed that [...]

Things like a canary

Steve Rogerson talks with Jayna Locke from Digi about the effects IoT technology is having in the industrial world. Once upon a time, coal miners used to carry a [...]

Looking up at co-creation

Steve Rogerson visits Analog Devices’ co-creation space in Ireland. My travels this week took me to Limerick in Ireland where American semiconductor company Analog Devices (ADI) has a huge [...]

Manageable Secure Machine Identities as Prerequisite for a Secure Internet of Things

The accelerated growth of digital transformations and digitalized processes, along with the expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) has exponentially increased the number of machine interactions. Author: Blog post [...]

Understanding the Role of Hardware Security Modules in Digital Identities for Machines

The accelerated growth of digital transformations and digitalized processes, along with the expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) has exponentially increased the number of machine interactions. Author: Blog post [...]

What to wear in Japan

Steve Rogerson took a walk round last week’s Wearable Expo show in Tokyo. I was in Tokyo last week, actually there for the Automotive World gathering but I popped [...]

Scientists Plan to Stop Livestock Diseases and Cattle Theft with 7 Million 5G-IoT Devices Connected to Satellite Constellation

Sateliot to provide satellite 5G NB-IoT connectivity to 400,000 5G devices to be deployed by Streamline at the end of 2023, improving livestock management in out-of-coverage areas. Traditional livestock [...]

Keeping IoT simple down on the farm

A UN spin out has simplified IoT technology to make it affordable for farmers in poorer countries. Steve Rogerson checked it out. Do you ever think IoT technology is [...]

Why Wi-Fi 6 and cellular connectivity are powering new use cases for a hyper-connected future

Wi-Fi 6 is maturing into a new role that is complementary to LTE-M and 5G connectivity, according to a new whitepaper from Quectel Wireless Solutions. The new paper, titled [...]