Aeris Communications has announced it closed the acquisition of Ericsson’s ERIC -0.08%↓ IoT Accelerator and Connected Vehicle Cloud businesses and assets. Ericsson, which will take a small stake in the new Aeris entity, said that its IoT business has been the “key driver” of financial loss.
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In a high-profile—and cool—use of location technology, KINEXON’s ultra-wideband technology (UWB) was used by several college teams in this year’s NCAA Basketball Tournament, also known as March Madness. Each player wore a tag device to generate real-time data and actionable insight, said Oliver Trinchera,...
MiX Telematics Signs 3,000 Subscribers in Latin America
MiX Telematics MIXT 2.17%↑ has signed more than 3,000 new subscribers in Latin America in the last two quarters. Several new customers in the bus and coach industry have signed with the company, including “the...
Construction and agriculture equipment giant CNH Industrial CNHI 0.00 has entered into an agreement to purchase Hemisphere GNSS from China-based Unistrong for an estimated $175 million. The company said that Hemisphere, when combined with its Raven agriculture brand, will give it...
Opens opportunities for developers of IoT tracking and monitoring
Amazon AMZN 0.42%↑ announced this week that it is opening its Sidewalk LoRa-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) network to IoT developers. Sidewalk, which covers more than 90 percent of the U.S. population, not only links smart home...
Geotab USA will defend its U.S. Postal Service contract award, which provides advanced telematics fleet-tracking devices to its vehicles, in a court protest filed by Samsara IOT 1.63%↑ last week, according to Bloomberg.
Samsara protesting USPO telematics award (Photo: Pexels).
Judge Thompson Dietz of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, in a scheduling...
TomTom has announced that more than 10 million automated vehicles sold by carmakers in North America and Europe are powered by its advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) maps and software. The company, which counts 30 automotive brands as customers...
Hivemapper has announced that it has collected more than 1 million kilometers of unique street-level imagery. The company says it has done this in just the past three months—and noted it took Google Street View GOOG -0.68%↓ more than five times as long to...
EU Report Stresses Importance of GNSS Alternatives for PNT
The European Union’s Joint Research Centre released a new report highlighting its 2021-2022 tests of Alternative Position, Navigation and Timing (A-PNT) technologies. Seven companies’ technologies were tested to address vulnerabilities and serve as a complement to GNSS, which...
Company's location technology to be part of government tracking system
Comtech CMTL 0.40%↑ has announced that it has been awarded a $29 million contract from Al Yah Satellite Communications Co. for communications technologies and location services that will operate on Yahsat’s Thuraya 4-NGS satellite constellation.
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