M&A, Strategies, Alliances Renesas has launched its Synergy platform, to connect its chips to apps and services in the IoT. The Industrial Internet Consortium has released its Industrial Internet Reference Architecture, as a guide for developers to use in designing systems using the IIC’s “common language” of interoperable standards and frameworks. Alcatel-Lucent and Sequans have combined to provide Orange with a 4G Kit for IoT, which Orange will use to speed up development and generate interest in the IoT. Sierra Wireless wraps up its acquisition of Accel Networks. Thinfilm has won an additional $22m investment from private investors, for its printed label electronics. The investing group now owns 6.1% of the company. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is calling for…