Smart Industry sat down with Igor Tovberg, Director of Product Marketing at Altair Semiconductor, a Sony Group Company, to talk about how connected medical devices could help combat and avoid pandemics such as Covid-19.
Skylo, a Silicon Valley satellite communications startup, announced a partnership Aug. 18 with Sony Semiconductor Israel, a company formerly known as Altair Semiconductor. Skylo and Sony are the first to develop and deploy cellular IoT chipsets (branded “Altair”) that can connect via geostationary satellites, leveraging the standardized, 5G-ready, NB-IoT protocol.
Ericsson, Sony Network Communications Europe, and Telenor Connexion want to simplify the connection of people and things with the help of intelligent tracking and monitoring solutions.
Sony unveiled details of two flagship 5G handsets alongside a mid-tier Xperia, as the company continues its attempts to draw on its connection to its other well-known electronics and content brands to turn its ailing smartphone business around.
Sony announced the upcoming release of the CXM1501GR communication module. It will be compatible with the ELTRES low-power wide area (LPWA) wireless communication standard that was developed by Sony for IoT applications.
In the health care sector, product malfunctions can be critical to a person’s life, so monitoring and maintenance are crucial. Citycare is able monitor the correct functioning of its Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) daily, wherever they are installed.
Kerlink, a specialist in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), and Hydrao, which makes smart demand-management solutions that enable significant water and energy savings.
Nokia has announced the completion of a narrowband ‘Internet of Things’ (NB-IoT) network deployment in L 800 band as part of its strategic partnership with Saudi IoT Network Mobily.
Radio frequency identification and IoT are injecting sober scoring into an interactive table for beer pong so that winners and losers need not rely on drunken tallies.
When the Port of Moerdijk had a large wind farm installed at the Southern Netherlands municipality in 2020, operated by Vattenfall, one of the European leaders in green energy, officials realized the turbine towers could serve an additional purpose: hosting an IoT network that provides key sensor data to the bustling port 120 meters below.
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