Flex

Microsoft | October 15, 2015

In our blog series about choosing an IoT provider, we’ve already looked at things to consider when choosing a provider, and taken a deeper look at questions to ask about solutions’ scalability and speed to market. Today, we’ll consider flexibility of solutions – a key consideration for businesses that have legacy technologies in place (many do) and need to use a mix to get their solution off the ground....

Fujitsu | March 25, 2015

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced the development of a thin, light-weight beacon(1), weighing 3 grams with a thickness of 2.5 millimeters, that does not require battery replacement or other maintenance and is flexible enough for installation on round objects, corners, and curves. Previously, beacons that did not require battery replacement needed power-supply components, such as power-management ICs and secondary batteries, as control circuits to ensure adequate power on activation. These comp...

IoT Now | July 09, 2018

There’s been a lot of talk about virtualisation in the telecoms world over the past decade. We’ve heard all about how it will enable service providers to drive down capital expenditure, simplify configuration and maintenance, and improve the agility of their networks,allowing them to provide the highest Quality of Experience (QoE) to the end user, who demands 4G access. But, asks Alistair Grant, business development EMEA at Adax, are service providers truly seeing the fruits of their...

Channellife | January 14, 2020

Avnet is launching a new IoT-specific partner programme designed to provide developers with a place to build complete IoT solutions. Using Avnet's IoTConnect platform, powered by Microsoft's Azure IoT Suite, developers can connect devices that address both the software and hardware needs of IoT solutions. Avnet will be adding a comprehensive marketplace in the coming months, which will allow a developer to write IoT applications to its platform and offer the...