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Press Release, Paris and New York, October 21st, 2020
Actility and Kwant.ai announce a partnership to leverage their complementary IoT expertise to address the needs of the growing Smart Construction market by providing industrial-grade turnkey solutions. The first solution combines the multi-technology LoRaWAN® tracking devices from Abeeway, Actility’s subsidiary specialized in low-power geolocation, with Kwant’s real-time dashboard solution for accurate Covid-19 response, productivity and safety on construction and industrial sites.
The released solution can be easily tried by end customers with a dedicated evaluation package “Kwant.ai Proximity Detection & Contact Tracing Starter Kit – Smart Bands” available for purchase on the largest IoT B2B marketplace managed by Actility – ThingPark Market.
Operating mainly in North America, this latest partnership with Actility enables Kwant.ai to expand its reach into horizontal and civil construction, oil and gas, and industrial projects in European and Asian markets, leveraging Actility’s global reach, as its ThingPark platform is powering the LoRaWAN networks of over 50 major operators in the world and is distributed in over 180 countries.
““The Abeeway-Kwant trial kit combines the power of low-powered sensors and predictive analytics to take the construction and manufacturing industries to the new era of Industry 4.0 and make Smart Construction and Industry as predictable as shopfloors. Top ENR and leading industry companies have deployed our solution in some of the world’s largest Airports, Industrial Plants, Pharmaceuticals, Hospital and Energy projects.”
says Aymeric Rambaud, Product Director at Actility.
“The partnership with Actility enables construction and industrial companies to finally have a first world solution that combines low powered sensors and a data-driven platform to improve productivity and safety on job sites. It’s a big deal because safety and productivity are two of the biggest problems that plague the $10 Trillion construction and industrial industries globally. This enables us to expand into new market verticals like oil and gas, manufacturing and logistics.”
added Niran Shrestha, CEO of Kwant.ai
Available for the US and International Markets, the released solution combines Abeeway Smart Badges, Kwant Location Sensors for Location Awareness, Comcast’s MachineQ or Tektelic LoRAWAN Gat way & OnTarget Platform to efficiently deploy proximity alerts and contact tracing for Smart Construction.
Abeeway devices offer the best autonomy on the market due to extremely low power consumption, allowing continuous use of the devices during years without having to worry about their maintenance. The smart Abeeway trackers are not only precise and resistant, but also durable and low-cost. The devices perfectly work both outdoors and indoors thanks to their multi-technology geolocation system, integrating GPS, our patented Low-power GPS, WiFi Sniffing and BLE.
The Smart Dashboard and Abeeway Solution Ensures Covid-19 Response:
Kwant is an internet of things (IoT) company with enterprise SaaS platform to increase
safety and productivity in construction and industrial sites. Kwant enables data-driven decision-making combining the power of low powered sensors and predictive analytics to decrease safety incidents, gain control of high-risk activities, and ensure covid compliance. Kwant.ai is taking the construction industry to the new era of Industry 4.0 and making construction and industrial sites as predictable as shopfloors. We are already active on 40 job sites including Jacobs, DPR, Walbridge, McCarthy, Mortenson and Delta’s Construction Management Group in projects such as Merck
pharmaceuticals, LaGuardia airport, ground-breaking General Motors manufacturing facility, and Microsoft Data Center. More than 5000 workers actively use our smart badges and wearables everyday including several trade-unions.
Actility is a world leader in Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN) industrial-grade connectivity solutions for the Internet of Things. Actility provides its ThingPark™ platform and network technology to deploy, operate and maintain public and private wireless IoT networks within a unified, scalable and versatile network infrastructure. The vast majority of nationwide LoRaWAN® network service providers (over 50) and hundreds of companies trust ThingPark™ all over the world. Through its subsidiary Abeeway, Actility also provides patented ultra-low power tracking solutions. ThingPark Market offers the largest selection of interoperable IoT gateways, devices and applications to simplify and accelerate deployment of use cases.
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Abeeway is the market leader in low-power indoor & outdoor fused geolocation and a provider of disruptive IoT tracking solutions worldwide. Abeeway offers the most energy-efficient, reliable and flexible geolocation solutions using unique tracking devices and a smart Multi-technology location system optimized for long-range and low-power-consumption leveraging LoRaWAN™ connectivity. Abeeway devices are available on ThingPark Market . Abeeway is a member of the LoRa Alliance™
Learn more about the LoRaWAN technology by downloading the Actility “What is LoRaWAN” white paper
