IoT 15 August 2025 - 17 August 2025

InterDigital shares up after IoT payments patent agreement
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InterDigital shares up after IoT payments patent agreement

InterDigital traded near flat to slightly higher in late trading Thursday, changing hands at $267.10. The wireless and video patent group announced a fresh Internet of Things licensing agreement with a payments tech firm. Regular Nasdaq trading was finished, with the stock in after-hours moving in a range between $261.15 and $268.38. InterDigital didn’t give much detail, but the new catalyst matters for the IDCC story. The company relies on licensing its patents, charging device makers for use. Investors are waiting to see if that business can go wider than just smartphones, into other connected devices.
May 21, 2026
artificial intelligence predictive maintenance
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AI Maintenance Is Quietly Saving Trillions: Guide to Predictive & Prescriptive Maintenance – What It Is, Who’s Winning, and How to Start

Predictive maintenance forecasts failure risk from condition signals. Prescriptive maintenance goes further by recommending actions, parts, and timing to optimize cost, uptime, and risk. In 2025, the stack typically combines: “Now operators, reliability engineers, and technicians can interact with the AI directly and do their jobs much more efficiently.” — Anuradha Bhamidipaty, IBM Research. IBM Research
August 17, 2025
Smart Fabrics with Sensors
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Smart Fabrics with Sensors: The Wearable Tech Revolution You Didn’t See Coming

Imagine wearing a shirt that monitors your heart rate, a dress that lights up with your mood, or a soldier’s uniform that can transmit location and health data in real time. This isn’t science fiction – it’s the emerging reality of smart fabrics with sensors, also known as smart textiles or e-textiles. These are high-tech fabrics interwoven with sensors, microcontrollers, and conductive yarns to create clothing that “goes beyond mere attire; it becomes a tool for monitoring, enhancing performance, and providing data” spyscape.com. In other words, your clothing itself becomes a wearable gadget. Smart fabrics represent a quiet revolution in wearable technology, one that many people “didn’t see coming” because it’s seamlessly hidden in the clothes we already wear. Unlike
August 15, 2025
LoRaWAN is Transforming Smart Cities and Farms
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The Long-Range IoT Revolution: How LoRaWAN is Transforming Smart Cities and Farms

Imagine streetlights that automatically adjust to save energy, or crops that tell farmers when they need water – all through a wireless network that stretches for miles and runs on tiny batteries for years. This is the promise of LoRaWAN, a low-power IoT network technology quietly powering smart cities and smart farms around the world. In the past few years, LoRaWAN has emerged as a leading platform for the Internet of Things, with over 350 million devices and sensors connected globally as of mid-2024 lora-alliance.org. Industry experts project that by 2030 LoRaWAN will help drive low-power IoT connections past 3.5 billion, enabling truly “massive IoT” on a global scale lora-alliance.org. This report dives into how LoRaWAN works, why it has
August 15, 2025