Focus: IOT

Greg Wyler’s new satellite constellation company E-Space announced Thursday that it completed a five-month feasibility study of its space-based IoT solutions and services. The study, commissioned by the French Space […]

Space infrastructure services company Momentus secured a contract with Italy’s Apogeo Space to provide orbital transportation services for nine of Apogeo’s IoT constellation picosatellites. The deal, announced Monday, represents the […]

Satellite startup Hubble Network recently announced a $20 million Series A funding round, along with its plans to launch a satellite constellation for Bluetooth device connectivity. Describing the company as “Starlink […]

Inmarsat has signed a new partnership as it looks to build its presence in the IoT space. FreeWave Technologies, an IoT solutions provider, has become a distribution partner for Inmarsat’s […]

Thuraya has taken the significant step of investing in a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation for the first time. The company, which is owned by Yahsat, concluded a new investment agreement […]

E-Space is collaborating with United Arab Emirates tech firm e& to develop IoT solutions, the companies announced March 28.  The companies plan to develop cloud-native IoT solutions using e&’s terrestrial […]

Sateliot is the first satellite operator to join the Global Certification Forum (GCF), a mobile and IoT standards certification organization. Sateliot and GCF said the collaboration announced this month will […]

Viasat, Ligado Networks, and Skylo Technologies plan to work together to offer direct-to-devices services, the companies announced Thursday. The three companies have signed a non-binding MoU to offer direct-to-device (D2D) […]

IoT provider emnify has signed a deal for satellite capacity with Lynk to enable IoT service. Under the agreement announced Tuesday, emnify customers will now be able to leverage their […]

IoT network operator Astrocast completed an optimization of its satellite constellation for improved service and reliability, the operator announced Feb. 16.  Following the launch of a batch of four new […]

EchoStar Corporation announced plans for a global S-band constellation to provide IoT services on Thursday, signing a deal with Astro Digital to manufacture the satellites. EchoStar ordered 28 small satellites […]

Fleet Space Technologies is forming a partnership with Canadian metal exploration company, Power Nickel, the company announced Feb. 1. It will mark the first deployment in Canada of Fleet Space’s satellite-based […]

ST Engineering iDirect has delivered its IoT solution to ARSAT, Argentina’s state-owned telecommunications company. The IoT solution will enable a number of use cases like fleet tracking, farming data, and […]

Satellite IoT startup Sateliot is working with industrial IoT company Sensefinity for cargo tracking. The companies said they are launching technology with 1,000 smart containers connected via satellite.  Sensefinity will […]

Satellite IoT startup Skylo announced partnerships Jan. 5 with both smartphone manufacturer Bullitt Group and IoT solutions company Quectel aimed at expanding connectivity through satellite through smart phones and IoT […]

Iridium Communications debuted a new satellite IoT messaging service on Wednesday, Iridium Messaging Transport (IMT). It’s a two-way cloud-native networked data service optimized for Iridium Certus to make it easier […]

With the highly anticipated Release 17 from 3GPP, narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) is now on a fast track to becoming the first technology to bridge the worlds of telecom and satcom. […]

Globalstar has signed a deal with Argentinian agtech startup Wiagro to supply IoT transmitters to be used to remotely monitor crops stored in silos.   Globalstar announced Wednesday it will provide […]

OQ Technology has announced that its ‘MACSAT’ mission supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) will launch in March on a Vega-C rocket. The […]

German space company Rivada Space Networks issued a request for proposals to prime contractors interested in building 600 Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, the associated ground systems, and providing integration for […]

Iridium Communications increased 2022 guidance for the second time this year after posting more gains in the third quarter. CEO Matt Desch also said the company expects to share more […]

Yahsat has made a move in the Internet of Things arena, acquiring a minority stake in eSAT Global, an IoT connectivity solutions provider that aims to bring a low-cost, low latency, […]

IoT company Soracom has added satellite connectivity to its global IoT platform through a partnership with Astrocast. The launch of native support for satellite allows customers to bring their own […]

IoT company floLive is partnering with satellite IoT company Skylo to extend its network with Skylo’s non-terrestrial network (NTN) IoT connectivity.  floLive operates a global “hyperlocal” IoT data network that […]

Satellite IoT company Sateliot announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday to build a cloud-based 5G service for narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) via satellite. Sateliot said that using […]

hiSky is ready to market its Smartellite Ku-band satellite terminal in the United States after receiving FCC certification. The terminal passed a testing process to gauge levels of radio frequency […]

Satellite IoT company OQ Technology closed a 13 million euro ($13 million) Series A funding round led by Wa’ed Ventures, the venture capital arm of Saudi oil and gas company […]

Wireless technology company Wyld Networks has signed a strategic partnership with Miromico AG to collaborate on sensor-to-satellite LoRaWAN terminals for IoT applications. Miromico, based in Switzerland, works on IoT as […]

Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation operator Globalstar and Pan–American mobile satellite service provider Globalsat Group confirmed Tuesday that they finished development on a satellite IoT solution designed to monitor remote renewable […]

R3-IoT has changed its name to Krucial, the company announced Aug. 18. The company will be launching a flagship product – Krucial Connect, which aims to connect smart devices anywhere […]