Nordic Semiconductors announced that the Norwegian asset tracking specialist, Meshtech is introducing their environmental asset tracker that combines cellular IoT and Bluetooth wireless technologies with a five-year battery life.

Silicon Labs and the Z-Wave Alliance has announced plans to open the Z-Wave specification as a ratified, multi-source wireless standard available to all silicon and stack vendors for development.

A community-based security system named Jonga has been developed in South Africa. The security system comprises of motion sensor detector that sends an alert message on Jonga’s app in case of intrusion.

Wilhelmsen, a global maritime industry group along with The Things Industries (TTI) leverages Semtech’s LoRa devices to deliver cost-effective, robust and proven IoT solutions to the maritime shipping industry.

Plastimo, an international player in the boating industry and Sigfox have joined forces to improve safety at sea with connected life jackets, offering total geolocation coverage across all oceans from 2020.

OKdo which is the part of Electrocomponents plc has introduced the Nvidia Jetson Nano Developer Kit promising out-of-the-box support for full desktop Linux, compatible with many peripherals and accessories, ready-to-use projects and tutorials.