Insurtech startup Lumkani has closed a seed funding round to provide highly vulnerable, traditionally excluded, low-income consumers living in informal settlements with insurance coverage. The funding round was led by 4Di Capital and Accion Venture Lab, the seed-stage investment initiative of financial inclusion leader Accion with participation of Lireas. Lumkani ...
Local universities, NGOs, private sector and government agencies have been asked to collaborate on research and innovations especially in use of Big Data, IoT and high powered computing (HPC) for service delivery and problem solving instead of working in silos. Due to lack of collaboration, these players in research, big ...
SolarNow is turning to the Internet of Things (IoT) to positively impact the lives of millions around the world – potentially none more so than those in Africa. Uganda's SolarNow and Eseye has announced an IoT partnership, powered by AWS, to provide connected solar energy to communities in East Africa. According to ...
Knife Capital, a Cape Town-based venture capital firm has made its first global investment since opening the London office in a Stockholm-based IoT specialist. The Cape Town-based firm has participated in a R22m funding round by Stockholm-based Mobile and Sensory Technology (MOST). Knife Capital invested alongside some of Europe’s most successful ...
Nairobi-based pay-as-you-go energy provider to off-grid homes M-KOPA Solar has secured US$80 million to provide finance for pay-as-you-go solar installations in one million homes in East Africa. The facility will be utilised over the next three years on top of the 500,000 already connected. According to Jesse Moore, CEO and ...
Y Combinator start-up Oolu, an off-grid solar companies in Senegal has raised $3.2m led by Persistent Energy Capital (PEC), and was joined by Y Combinator (YC) and other seed investors. Oolu will use the money to further invest in its current operations in Senegal and Mali,and to expand into ...
4 out of 5 African families depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, but just 4 percent use irrigation with the rest relying on increasingly unreliable rainfall. Switching to irrigated agriculture increases yields by 90 percent when compared to nearby rain- fed farms, but high diesel costs make irrigation an unaffordable ...
With the advent of Internet of Things, data is one of the most important assets in the world yet its not covered by standard property insurance policies. Therefore any interruption to an organisation's systems means an interruption to firms to conduct their core businesses. Data protection should therefore be at ...
South Africa is home to more than 70 percent of the world's remaining rhino population. However, conservationists are battling to protect the dwindling number of these iconic animals that are being killed for their highly-prized horns as over the past decade, more than 7,000 rhinos were killed across the African ...
The smart home concept is not new globally and even in Kenya as most home owners have automated various systems in their homes such as lighting, music among others and are able to remotely control them. A smart home can allow you to view video from security cameras in your ...
South Africa's WiPo Wireless Power, is developing a wireless power solution for power line inspection drones in a move to develop wireless power solutions for different types of drones in the near future. Speaking to TechMoran about his entrepreneurship journey, Wipo Wireless Power co-founder and CEO Jaco du Preez said, ...
Inmarsat in partnership with Jersey Telecom and Actility, the industry leader in Low Power Wide Area Networks for industrial IoT have deployed LoRaWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network) infrastructure around the city of Kigali, Rwandan to provide a blueprint for smart city projects throughout Africa. The LoRaWAN network will provide ...
With operations in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda and several countries across Africa, BBOXX, a UK-based African focused solar solutions firm has partnered with Aeris, an Internet of Things (IoT) firm to ensure that BBOXX devices have reliable IoT connectivity no matter where in the world they are deployed; that they ...
Huawei has partnered with American based technology firm Honeywell Home and Buildings Technologies to introduce smart building offerings as a viable solution to address urban development pressures. Through this collaboration, the two companies will jointly pursue large-scale smart city projects globally to help city administrators build intelligent urban infrastructures ...
Genetec Inc., a innovator of open architecture, IP-based security systems, says that local Internet-of-Things (IoT) IP devices and systems are growing at a rapid pace, but the implementation of adequate security management systems and cybersecurity is severely lacking. Genetec will host a seminar this Wednesday, 15th March in Midrand to ...
Comsol's open architecture, open platform Low Power Wide Area National network deployment, Comsol IoT, has been launched. Backed by a global alliance and driven by international giants such as Cisco and IBM, the latest generation IoT network offers low cost, long range, low power IoT connectivity, capable of supporting geolocation. ...
For many years and in many hospitals this side of the deaths happen when a nurse leaves the inpatient ward, full of invalids to go get more supplies or check on other patients in the next wards or just lazy to attend to their patients. Many hospitals have been working ...
Just a day after Samsung announced its IoT platform dubbed Artik, MTN has announced an Internet of Things (IoT) platform and machine to machine (M2M) SIM card in a move to tap into the growing IoT industry. Now live in South Africa, MTN will launch the platform in Nigeria, then ...
