M&A, Strategies, Alliances WiLAN is buying IRD for $47.4m, with WiLAN planning on changing its name to Quarterhill, and adding IRD’s IIoT transport tech to its patent-licensing portfolio. The IPSO Alliance has announced work on the next generation of its IoT interoperability guidelines, and strong adoption for its Smart Object Guidelines – based on the OMA’s LWM2M standard. Comcast has joined the LoRa Alliance as a board member and sponsor, an announced it will be holding the next Open House – signaling an expansion of its machineQ project. The EdgeX Foundry has been launched by the Linux Foundation, with 50 companies joining to develop an open framework for IoT edge-computing. Laws, Regulation, and Lawsuits The EU has announced that it…