| Featured Articles Now, thanks to Relayr and HSB, companies making substantial investments in the Internet of Things (IoT) will be able to protect returns on those investments through a new breed of IoT-enabled insurance products. LoJack has announced that law enforcement officials throughout the United States recovered more than $6.6 million in stolen construction equipment and machinery thanks to its system. Drawn from the data collected throughout the year, the company has produced its 2015 Construction Equipment Theft Recovery Report and infographic, which highlights the ongoing problem of thieves targeting construction businesses for their high value equipment. Sponsored by: IoT Evolution Expo February 7-10, 2017 Fort Lauderdale, Florida The Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) is starting to build up hype, and according to a recent announcement, we've now got a test case in the field in Finland, thanks to Nokia. According to a recent release, AT&T has switched on North America's first LTE-M commercial site, in San Ramon, California, kicking off a growth pattern that will enable the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) for years. AT&T plans to make the technology widely available across its commercial network throughout 2017. Now this is some sobering stuff. In a recent announcement, Anheuser-Busch announced that it has fielded an automated big rig, controlled by software from Uber's Otto, that this week successfully hauled a fully loaded trailer of Budweiser beer more than 120 miles on I-25 from Fort Collins, Colorado through Denver, to Colorado Springs. Qualcomm Incorporated has announced that it will buy NXP Semiconductors through a subsidiary of Qualcomm that will make an offer to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of NXP for $110.00 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $47 billion. They might not have started with pole position, but as the checkered flag gets closer in this IoT 1000 race, Knoxville, Tennessee is making a move on the inside of the Automation marketplace with the announcement of a new plan to become a cutting-edge testbed for connected and autonomous vehicles. In this episode of the IoT Time Podcast, Ken Briodagh sits down with Mikko Jarva, CTO, Intelligent Data, Comptel. Advertise With Us | | Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet website and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details. | | |
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