Challenges in agriculture and farming As one of the oldest industries in the world, farming has benefited significantly from technological advancement, and the advent of IoT and M2M is ushering in a new season of Smart Farming and agricultural technology, or AgriTech, driven by innovations in connectivity. Mechanical plows, crop sprayers, and harvesters have all…

LTE Category 1 (known as Cat-1 or Cat 1, we will use the former) originally emerged as something of a precursor to IoT back in 2008, with a specification intended for low power, low throughput M2M devices. But it was largely ignored until an update in 2016 saw the release of a new variant, which…

Today at Embedded World 2024, Eseye, a pioneer of integrated cellular IoT connectivity solutions, marked World IoT Day by launching the Hera 200, the smallest router the company has produced to date. This entry-level IoT router has been designed to simplify IoT device connectivity to customer systems and the cloud, ensuring that network connections are…

Costa Coffee is a prominent supplier of high-quality beverages in a fiercely competitive and ever-changing market. Fuelled by a desire for expansion and a commitment to innovation, Costa has rapidly expanded its market share through innovation, introducing Costa Express and self-service vending machines. Martyn Dawes, creator of Costa Express, was inspired by the popularity of…

As technology advances, mobile networks too need to evolve. Outdated networks that can no longer support the needs of IoT devices and applications make way for new, faster and more efficient networks. 2G and 3G sunsetting is where the industry is controlling the change to newer 4G, 5G and 6G networks by gradually switching off…

Of the dozen or so categories of LTE with M2M and IoT use cases, NarrowBand-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is one of the most well known and most widely deployed, alongside LTE-M and Cat-1 (bis). NB-IoT (also known as LTE Cat-NB1) is a member of the family of Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) technology standards developed by…

Although the concept of an eSIM for IoT and M2M (via eUICC) was first introduced almost a decade ago, slow progress in standardization and poor operator cooperation means that it hasn’t driven the much-anticipated explosion in IoT deployments. So far. The main hold-up has been a lack of ease in switching IoT connectivity providers. But…

Note: From the end of April, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) will be enabled across all portfolios and become standard when you login to the Infinity IoT Platform. Multi-Factor Authentication has become more commonplace in recent years and offers an additional layer of security to protect your account. It involves users completing a quick multi-step account login…