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Agribusinesses that digitize field operations need partners who understand both software engineering and farm work. General development vendors can build apps, yet agriculture projects add requirements such as ISOBUS machine data and offline use in remote fields. This list reviews 12 vendors with dedicated AgTech practices or published agriculture projects. It also explains which criteria […]

Iridium Communications Inc., a leading provider of global voice, data, aircraft surveillance, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) satellite services, today announced that Altair Semiconductor, a world leader in cellular IoT chips, is integrating Iridium NTN Direct℠ capability into Altair’s ALT1350 and next-generation ALT1550 IoT chipset platforms. With terrestrial cellular IoT and Iridium satellite connectivity

By Thomas Joos, freelance technology journalist and author. Manufacturers finishing an IoT device today decide, through flash memory and bootloader design, whether it will still receive secure updates after 2030. NIST and EU deadlines, larger signatures, and chip suppliers’ commitments must therefore be considered before design freeze. Once a hardware design is frozen, flash size,

Your team has the plan. The value study is done, the roadmap is approved, and the slide deck looks right. Six months later, throughput has not moved, the old habits are back, and the savings never reached the P&L. The problem was not the idea. It was industrial implementation: turning the plan into how the

By Manuel Nau, Lead Editor at IoT Business News. New research from Anthropic suggests that small AI models could soon become capable of autonomously replicating across vulnerable IoT devices. Experiments involving inexpensive Android TV boxes reveal how distributed edge computing could support a new generation of adaptive malware. IoT botnets have traditionally relied on relatively

By Manuel Nau, Lead Editor at IoT Business News. New figures from the Trusted Connectivity Alliance show a fivefold increase in SGP.32-compatible eSIM subscription management platforms during the first half of 2026, alongside a sharp rise in consumer eSIM adoption and continued growth in traditional SIM shipments. For IoT device manufacturers deploying connected products across

By Manuel Nau, Lead Editor at IoT Business News. LG Electronics and Apple have jointly developed seven smart home accessories spanning security, access control and climate management. The new product range combines Apple Home integration, coordinated device controls and Matter over Thread connectivity for selected devices. A smart lock, security camera and thermostat may all

A logistics company ran a temperature-monitoring pilot that looked flawless. Forty sensors, a gateway, a dashboard, two weeks of clean data from a bench in the office. Everyone signed off. Then the units went into the cold-storage facility they were actually meant for, and within nine days a third of them had stopped reporting. The

By Matt Hatton, Founding Partner, Transforma Insights The growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into Internet of Things (IoT) applications is changing the requirements placed on cellular connectivity. According to a new position paper from Transforma Insights, sponsored by FLOLIVE, Connecting AI: The critical role of connectivity in AI data quality, connectivity is becoming more

IoT businesses have transformed every industry they’ve entered, making our lives faster and much more convenient. On the surface, IoT merely connects devices, sensors, and systems, turning them into intelligent networks, but there are billions of processes taking place underneath, and all of them need to function perfectly to deliver satisfying results. Manual IoT device