Quality Guard enables cold chain traceability in Belgian food industry What is great about the solution, is that everyone wins. Wim Van Gierdegom, General Manager 4 000 sensorsDeployments in Belgium 800 customersNationwide 50 000 usersFor the Quality Guard application in the food industry End customer Quality Guard CUSTOMER CHALLENGE The food inustry needs end-to-end traceability to comply with stringent health and hygiene regulations For the many businesses and agencies in the food industry, health and

Ergon Energy trials LoRaWAN in Townsville to run its network more efficiently NNNCo is working in close partnership with Actility to leverage their Network Server and IoT Platform which has been successfully deployed by operators around the world. Rob Zagarella, CEO of National Narrowband Network (NNNCo) 1.7 million km2Geographic coverage 1st July 2016Queensland government-owned Ergon and Energex merge $24AUD billion assetsEnergy Queensland: Australia’s largest electricity distributor End customer Ergon Energy CUSTOMER CHALLENGE Energy demand variations

A key objective for CSTB’s is to stay ahead of market demands. This French organization provides research and innovation, consultancy, testing, training and certification services in the construction industry.

The Actility Blog Actility’s night at the museum The first Actility Operator Forum in Paris on the 29th and 30th of November 2018 saw over 50 global network operators and 100 customers or partners join Actility, at the invitation of CEO and Founder Olivier Hersent, to celebrate the growth of the ThingPark LoRaWAN® ecosystem and to share success stories, feedback, and best practice. As a global leader in LoRaWAN solutions and a founding member of

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The Actility Blog LoRa Alliance Members Meeting in Tokyo Here are a few highlights from our recent LoRa Alliance Members Meeting that was held in Tokyo… Our 2-day Technical Committee meeting was packed with people (nearly 60!) and an overflowing agenda. Basic building blocks of FUOTA (Firmware Update Over-The-Air) feature, namely multicast setup, fragmentation, and application-layer clock synchronization specifications, are now published. These specs can be freely downloaded from Resource Hub. Collection of these specs

The Actility Blog Business France and the IE-Club recognize Actility as French Tech leader Business France and the IE-Club recently organized the 16th presentation of the Trophées de l’International du Numérique (International Digital Awards) – as part of the International Meeting of French Tech – on the 24th of October at the Business France HQ in Paris. As part of this distinguished event, our COO and co-founder Nicolas Jordan was presented with the main award

The Actility Blog Actility honored at the Élysée Palace in recognition of hyper-growth status On Monday 24th September, Actility CEO Olivier Hersent received an award on behalf of the company at a prestigious event at the Élysée Palace in Paris. Presented by Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, Mounir Mahjoubi, the award acknowledges and celebrates the hyper-growth of Actility. The “Pass French Tech” for the 2017-2018 class brings together 107 companies from three sectors including

The Actility Blog Sweden raises the bar for LoRaWAN Our client Blink Services recently took the opportunity to combine hosting the second ThingPark Baltic Sea User Forum with their own customer event. It was held the 19th and 20th of September in Gothenburg, Sweden and welcomed new participants from Russia and Norway who have joined Actility’s operator community in the Baltic Sea region. Actility CEO Olivier Hersent attended to present his views on the market,

The Actility Blog Ms Moore: The LoRa Alliance’s New CEO Shares Her Vision Donna Moore is CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance since March 2018. Actility: As you’re joining the Alliance, where does it stand? How do you see its achievements so far? Donna Moore: Let’s start with a warm thank you: Actility has been a very strong presence within the Alliance! To answer your question, I’m so excited to take this role and

The Actility Blog The City Hub Alliance introduces LoRaWAN connectivity as a service in Sweden LoRaWAN connectivity as a service Let me introduce myself: I’m the COO of Öresundskraft, a communication and energy company in the south of Sweden. In February 2017, we designed and established the world first “Open City Hub” (Stadshubb in Swedish) in Helsingborg, based on the unique Swedish open wholesale business model for local fiber networks. Some 200 Swedish municipalities own

The Actility Blog Smart National Park 4.0: How Thai students use LoRaWAN to preserve wildlife From 6-13 January 2018, the Top Gun Rally gathered 300 Thai engineering students to join a five-day hackathon. The Thai Embedded Systems Association (TESA) created this annual “rally” to boost national student skills and provide the industry with talented engineers. Participants are getting morning lectures and are challenged with development problems in the afternoon. This year’s event is sponsored by

The Actility Blog Actility launches Click & Go to facilitate IoT adoption It’s no news to anyone that the IoT is still a fragmented market. When you want to deploy a dedicated LoRaWAN network, you have to find and buy from at least three different parties, three kinds of solutions: Hardware: gateway and devices Connectivity: a network server connecting to the LoRaWAN network Application: data visualization and treatment Test, deploy and scale How do you

The Actility Blog 2017: Actility in the Spotlight Celebrating our ten-year birthday in 2017, Actility stood in the spotlight for a host of prestigious awards and acknowledgments. We’re delighted to share our top three! Actility has entered the top 10 French Tech start-ups you had to invest in last year… alongside new investors such as Creadev, Bosch and Inmarsat and existing ones i.e. Idinvest, Bpifrance, Ginko Ventures, KPN, Orange Digital Ventures, Swisscom, and Foxconn. “With

The Actility Blog Watson Helsinki Summit: The Magic Show by Digita, Watson IoT and ThingPark On 18 October, Guy Shelbourne and myself Mark Maidman were invited to attend the IBM Watson Helsinki Summit by our Finnish partner Digita. We told visitors the unheard of capabilities of a public LoRaWAN network, coupled with Watson IoT analytics and ThingPark. Here’s the full story! IBM Watson… You may know it as “the supercomputer able to play and win

The Actility Blog Take the Pulse of the Fast West with Deloitte France’s Tech Awards As 2017 is drawing to an end, we’re well into the business ceremonies season! Last month, I was representing Actility as the incumbent Entrepreneur of the Year in the 2017 EY France awards. On 9 November, we were back in the spotlight with the Technology Fast 50 West French award. The event organized by Deloitte and In Extenso aims to

The Actility Blog Actility’s IoT geolocation helps to protect workers and assets There’s excellent news coming from the LoRa Alliance: the core LoRaWAN specifications enabling passive roaming are coming out of the oven! As a co-chair of the LoRa Alliance Technical Committee, it’s my pleasure to present you our latest treats on roaming, security, Class B, and standalone Join Server. The Technical Committee has been working on these specs for over a year now… We

The Actility Blog Key moments at the EY France Start-up of The Year Awards Ceremony 2017 Here I was again at the prestigious Salle Pleyel for the 25th EY France Entrepreneur of the Year awards ceremony. Participating this year was Christophe Barbier from L’Express, Arnaud Le Gal from Les Echos and Jean-Francois Royer from EY as Master of Ceremonies, accompanied by a band playing pop standards and a couple of entertaining breakdancers. After the makeup

The Actility Blog CityHack Bucharest: Pimp my connected bin with LoRaWAN! RAPHAEL APFELDORFER: As Actility’s Experience Engineering Director, I was among the 100 participants of CityHack 2017 in Bucharest, the smart city hackathon organized by Orange Romania, Tremend and Actility. On 22 -23 September, our 8HATS team built a demo of a waste management solution based on LoRaWAN that won the first prize. I’d like to share how we came to this success! Let me

The Actility Blog The Road to IoT Riches, Part 2: From the European birthplace to Global Horizons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-PnlKTzUgU They say that the IoT ecosystem is more mature in Europe than elsewhere. To shed some light on this assertion, we’re looking into the evolution of this ecosystem. We share the insights of Omniimpex, a Swiss device maker with global traction! Stephan Buehler is the owner and CTO of Omniimpex, a Swiss device manufacturer working with different

The Actility Blog The Road to IoT Riches, Part 1: The New Silk Road in Asia-Pacific End of July, ThingPark China, Actillity’s Chinese branch, signed a landmark agreement to launch an IoT network on the ‘New Silk Road’. This modern day version of the ancient Silk Road is meant to drive commerce, connectivity, and cooperation between nations, connecting Asia to Europe. As a strategic player in this initiative, Actility wanted to highlight the road to

The Actility Blog At MWC Shanghai, a one-year-old dragon takes its first steps in the Chinese IoT ecosystem By Actility’s Bing LIU – July 1st 2017 was a special date for ThingPark China for two reasons: 1) it has been over a year since our launch in 2016  2) we were exploring exciting business opportunities at MWC Shanghai, the flagship mobile industry event. Let us take you back to this momentum for the Chinese IoT

The Actility Blog LoRa Alliance Security White Paper The main objective of LoRaWAN, being an LPWAN technology, is obviously to provide IoT connectivity… BUT – because there is always a “but” – we are now all aware that unless IoT connectivity is fully secured, it can create more problems than it solves… Who would want to connect their smoke alarm to the Internet when hackers could easily mess with it? If your neighbor’s kid can

The Actility Blog 3 Good Fairies Welcome the Newborn Swedish LoRaWAN™ Ecosystem Actility was invited to the Blink Services and Landskrona Energi IoT event on 9 June to brief their potential customers on LoRaWAN™ use cases. Nicolas Beaumer, IoT Product Strategy Manager and myself, Mark Maidman, UK and Northern Europe Sales Manager, were honored to meet the newborn Swedish LoRaWAN™ ecosystem.   Blink Services’ insightful and inspiring IoT event The IoT event organized by Blink Services

The Actility Blog Actility is at Cisco Live Las Vegas! By Magali Mitaux: Mark your calendars the next Cisco Live  is in Las Vegas from June 25th to 29th! What is Cisco live? Cisco Live is the premier education and training destination for IT professionals worldwide. It is a yearly event gathering thousands of technology innovators. It is more than 1000 educational sessions and 28,000 customers, partners and media attendees. All this makes it the