

Between the lines, Vodafone study asks how to sell to SMEs just trying to “stay afloat”
Whatever Vodafone’s intention when polling 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK, and whatever its conclusion from their responses, one thing is also clear: business is hard in this economic...

This Week in Security: IoT In the Hot Tub, App Double Fail, and FreeBSD BadBeacon
[Eaton Zveare] purchased a Jacuzzi hot tub, and splurged for the SmartTub add-on, which connects the whirlpool to the internet so you can control temperature, lights, etc from afar. He didn’t realize he was about to...



More network, more devices – LoRaWAN is more ‘massive’ on every score, says LoRa Alliance
To get the juices going, on all sides of the IoT divide, ahead of its jamboree LoRaWAN World Expo event in Paris in two weeks, the LoRa Alliance has issued a statement to declare LoRaWAN better – and bigger, and more...


1NCE doubles NB-IoT coverage with new roaming in Americas, Asia, Europe
Germany-based IoT provider 1NCE has said it has doubled its NB-IoT footprint with expansion into Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, the Slovak Republic, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States. The company claimed it has the “world’s largest NB-IoT coverage map, available at a single price worldwide”. Its new roaming agreements are in addition to existing NB-IoT-based cellular low-power wide-area (LPWA) coverage in...





Real-time air quality monitoring and alerting – Part 2 – Training Azure Anomaly Detector
In the first part of this series, I looked at how you can use a sensor from PurpleAir to capture data on the quality of the air at a location and then route that information to a custom IoT endpoint in Microsoft Azure. The captured data on its own is not that useful, and really what I want to do is detect when it might not be safe to go outside due to sudden changes in air quality. Now, I could write a bunch of logic to detect when...




