Mexico mobile operators, Telefónica Mexico, and mobile IT cloud solution provider, ItsOn Inc., announced the launch of a unique suite of personalized wireless services that will be marketed via Telefónica’s Movistar brand and channels.
The new service will empower customers to buy and manage mobile plans directly from their smartphones. Telefónica Mexico will be the first Latin American mobile operator to offer ItsOn-powered, end-to-end digital services.
Microsemi Corporation, a provider of semiconductor and system solutions, announced the availability of its PDS-104GO outdoor Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) switch, expanding the company’s PoE product offering to enable the connection of four powered devices to a network. The switch delivers 60 watts (W) of power per device over standard Ethernet cabling to outdoor devices such as wireless local-area network access points (WLAN), Internet protocol (IP) cameras, point-to-point microwave radio and small cells—and is ideal for outdoor deployments in several industries including education, transportation, and government.
Microsemi will be showcasing the device in Europe at the Cisco Live event in Berlin Feb. 15-18 and in the U.S. at ISC West in Las Vegas April 5-8.
Sentient Energy, Inc., a provider of advanced grid monitoring and analytics solutions for electric utilities, announced support for the latest generation LTE technology within its cellular-based MM3 intelligent distribution grid sensor at DistribuTECH 2016 in Orlando, Fla.
The LTE unit is backwards compatible with existing 3G and 2G cellular networks.
Sentient Energy recently announced a deployment of more than 20,000 MM3 intelligent sensors on Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) 42,000-mile overhead service area.
Inmarsat has joined the LoRa Alliance, dedicated to developing a global standard for the Internet of Things (IoT).
Inmarsat will provide the LoRa ecosystem with satellite connectivity to enable the deployment of solutions anywhere an object or device needs to be connected.
The LoRa Alliance, a non-profit organisation founded in 2015 by industry leaders across the IoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) industries, has a mission to standardise Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN), which are being deployed worldwide to enable IoT, M2M, smart city and industrial applications.
Filed Under: IoT • IIoT • Internet of things • Industry 4.0, Infrastructure