The two companies will bring together schools, businesses, and investors to lay the groundwork for creating hubs of qualified workers in the technology.

The advantages of LTE-M over traditional IoT connectivity options include longer battery life—up to 10 years—as well as better coverage for IoT underground and deep inside buildings.

As part of the partnership agreement, Microsoft will give access to Azure, its popular cloud computing service for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of data centers.

Entrepreneurs can use the lab to create prototypes they want to produce on a large scale, or to test their own assets such as wireless sensor networks and digital systems.

Mexico’s Internet of Things (IoT) market reached US$3.3 billion in 2016, totaling a 0.41% participation in the global market, which was valued at US$812 billion.

The South Korean firm says that knowledge of virtual reality would make it easier for Mexicans to explore internet of things, adding that IoT would prove to be a vital tool for boosting industrial productivity in the years to come.

Students from a handful of universities around the country have developed a new innovation that could make Mexico’s water systems much safer.

The ascent of Internet of Things (IoT) is seemingly unstoppable, with global manufacturers of chips, modules, semiconductors and hardware devices now…