IoT

Circularity Capital has continued to build its portfolio of European growth-stage businesses enabling the circular economy, with an £8m (€9.60m) investment in P2i a global provider of liquid repellent nanotechnology products.

Counterfeiting is a real scourge that has a serious impact on the competitiveness of companies and brands. In France, the second most affected country after the United States, there were more than 5.64 million customs seizures in 2020, compared to 200,000 in 1994.

In the last five years, web searches for edge computing have increased by a colossal 473%. Clearly, there’s an appetite for understanding the edge but the technology has yet to be widely deployed in industrial applications. Here are some misconceptions and barriers of edge computing, as well as the strong case for manufacturers to embrace the edge now, says Nevzat Ertan chief architect & global manager for digital machining architecture at Sandvik Coromant.

Beijing. 30 Dec 2021- SENSORO, an IoT and artificial intelligence unicorn company from China, announced the release of a new ESG solution brand named “SENSORO SOLUTION”. The program aims at climate monitoring, ecological protection, livelihood improvement, animal welfare, garbage classification and other applications.

Madrid, 23 Dec 2021 – Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) and Accenture have signed a collaborative agreement that is focused on accelerating digital transformation and applying analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive faster decision-making and enhance the customer service experience.

San Francisco – Gupshup, the specialist in conversational messaging, announced the launch of a WhatsApp-based commerce solution that can enable any business to create a digital “storefront” on WhatsApp. Businesses can enable conversational journeys across every stage of the buying process: pre-purchase, purchase, and post-purchase.

Madrid. 23 December 2021- Telefonica Tech continues its growth story by announcing the signing of a contract for the acquisition of Geprom, a technology-based engineering company headquartered in Spain specialising in industrial automation and the digital transformation of existing factory production processes.

Gothenburg, Sweden. 23 December 2021- Berg Insight presents a database covering the 500 largest cellular IoT deployments identified as part of the company’s IoT market research activities since 2004.

The global smartphone applications processor (AP) market grew 17% to $8.3 billion (€7.34 billion) in Q3 2021, according to Strategy Analytics‘ Handset Component Technologies (HCT) service report.

Helsinki, Finland. 21 December 2021 – A researcher with cyber security provider F-Secure has found and helped fix design flaws in Ellume‘s COVID-19 Home Test. The flaws would have allowed an individual to falsify a certifiable result in Ellume’s test, which has received emergency use authorisation in the US.

Seattle – With significant growth projected in the global IoT market over the next 6 years, the need to subsequently secure devices at the edge from attacks, safe and secure through the manufacturing process, and managed securely throughout the life of the product will follow a similar trajectory, predict experts at Sequitur Labs.

Bitcoin panic-sellers are “practically giving away” their cryptocurrencies to wealthy buyers who will use the digital assets as an inflation shield, believes the CEO of a global financial provider.

Lisbon. Portugal and San Mateo. Calif. 14th December 2021 – Feedzai, the RiskOps platform, announced that it has experienced a 125% year-over-year growth in new Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in Q3. Large multi-year enterprise deals closed in the US, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM with 100% year-to-date growth in new logos.

7 December 2021 – The enforced lockdowns imposed during COVID-19 changed consumer buying behaviour, with people forced to shop online for essential and non-essential goods alike.

Gothenburg, Sweden. 7th December 2021 – IoT market research provider, Berg Insight, has released new findings on the market for Electronic Monitoring (EM) of offenders. The number of participants in EM programmes on a daily basis in Europe, North America and Latin America amounted to about 46,000, 282,000 and 71,000 respectively during 2020.

London UK. 7 December 2021 — One Identity, a unified identity security, released global survey findings that unpack the current state of Zero Trust awareness and adoption across the enterprise. As Zero Trust awareness continues to rise on the heels of the U.S. White House’s “Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity” that was released in May, and a year plagued by one disastrous cybersecurity incident after another, new findings from One Identity reveal that only 1 in 5 security stakeholders are confident in their organisations’ understanding of Zero Trust.

Despite a 5% drop in the global RFID market in 2020 compared to 2019, due to the impact of COVID-19, the market has recovered well in 2021.

London, UK. 30 November 2021 – Analysys Mason a specialist telecoms, media and technology consulting and research firm has released its annual industry predictions on the major trends it expects to make an impact in 2022.

In a rapidly advancing digital age, with the power of the internet at our fingertips, voice and the telephony channel is far more prevalent in our daily lives than people realise. However, this channel leaves numerous opportunities for fraudsters to exploit us, says Dr Nikolay Gaubitch, director of research at Pindrop.

November 29, 2021 – GlobalPlatform, the standard for secure digital services and devices, has certified its Secure Element (SE) Protection Profile (PP) with the international standard for computer security certification, Common Criteria (CC).

Helsinki, Finland. 26 November 2021 – Global cyber security provider F-Secure has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with the Switzerland-based CyberPeace Institute, an independent non-governmental organisation whose mission is to protect the security, dignity, and equity of people in cyberspace. The letter outlines a broad plan for cooperation in a number of areas, including the forensic analysis of cyber incidents which increasingly affect vulnerable communities. 

Paris. 23 November 2021 – PKvitality, a French company specialised in Health and Sport bio-wearables announced the start of a clinical study to determine the accuracy of the K’Watch Glucose. The trial is conducted with the AMCR Institute Inc, a clinical research centre focused on diabetes and obesity with worldwide renown medical device expertise in the metabolic area.

As the UK housing market faces an ongoing boom, there’s one profession that’s certainly rushed off its feet estate agents. Stamp duty breaks and a rush for larger homes have meant this industry is working faster than ever to meet demand. Here, Kristian Torode, director and co-founder of business phone systems provider Crystaline, explains how communications technology can help estate agents boost their sales to keep pace with the market.

London, UK. 23 November 2021: New research from the BT and Altitude Angel-led “Project XCelerate” Consortium[1] has found over two thirds (68%) of the British public believe drones will have a positive impact on their life in the future, with almost half (49%) saying they are optimistic or excited about the potential drone technology holds.

Vietnam’s ICT firm FPT was featured in HFS Research’s recent report entitled “Smart Enterprises are considering the untapped potential of Vietnam to plug capability gaps in the Virtual Economy”. The paper, conducted by HFS Research with the support of FPT, identifies Vietnam as one of the intriguing IT services destinations for enterprises as the world emerges from the economic trauma caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

London, UK. 19 November 2021 – Netwrix, a cybersecurity vendor that makes data security easy, announced the release of StealthAUDIT 11.5. The new release provides expanded data discovery and permissions reporting capabilities for cloud databases and extends data governance for Microsoft 365.

Edinburgh, UK.17 November, 2021 – IOTech, the edge software company, announced five predictions for edge computing in 2022. Among its forecasts, the company foresees a proliferation of AI and machine learning at the IOT edge and edge-cloud architectures as the norm.