There’s a fragmented choice of wireless technologies for low power, wide area IoT

The telecom industry is good at generating confusion, says freelance IoT and communications writer, Bob Emmerson. LTE Cat-1 services are being launched in the States but not NB-IoT (LTE Cat NB1 is the official term), which only arrives in 2018.

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Weightless hardware roadmap announced

Cambridge, UK, October 24, 2013 – The Weightless SIG has announced the roadmap for the roll-out of Weightless compatible hardware from SIG founder and promoter group member, Neul. At the recent inaugural Weightless Summit in London, Stan Boland, Neul CEO, set out the company’s launch schedule for the long awaited hardware widely anticipated to catalyse

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Waiting for a tidal wave in low power wireless wide area networks

(BLOG) — You wait ages for one low-power wireless WAN technology and then like buses three come along at once. On-Ramp Wireless, SIGFOX and Weightless have all entered this market with different technologies, writes Steve Rogerson, and the likelihood is that there will be more before any sort of consolidation starts to happen.

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Neul secures first Series B funding with additional US$5m as Boland drives company in new direction

(Cambridge, UK – September 6, 2013) – Neul Ltd, a specialist in Internet of Things (IoT) network technology using the Weightless™ wireless standard, has closed the initial US$5 million tranche of a new Series B round of equity funding. (See our Exclusive Interview: Neul CEO switches focus from broadband to M2M, lays off staff, plans

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Neul debuts ATEX-compliant 'white space' communications system and appoints new CEO

Cambridge, UK – Neul has launched an ATEX-compliant white space communications system, NeulNET, whilst announcing the appointment of Stan Boland as its new CEO.

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Weightless M2M Summit

Event date: September 25-26, 2013 London, UK CAMBRIDGE, UK – MAY 29, 2013 – The Weightless SIG today announced its flagship event programme with the launch of the inaugural Weightless Summit on September 25 – 26 in London.

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​Can M2M move into white space spectrum?

Developed in the U.K. and targeted soon as an available spectrum cleared by UK terrestrial TV, Weightless is an evolving air interface specification designed to provide M2M device connectivity within the white space spectrum.

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