Actility & Modern Software Forge a Powerful Partnership in Oman

Actility Announces ModSoft as Premium Network Partner in Oman

Press Release – Paris, France – June 8th, 2023

Actility, a global leader in IoT connectivity solutions, has announced that Modern Software (ModSoft), an end-to-end IT & Telecom solutions provider, has become its Premium Network Partner in Oman.

Actility and ModSoft are jointly propelling the digital transformation journey of their clients to forge a unique innovation ecosystem in Oman. Actility selected ModSoft based on their demonstrated expertise in collaborating with major service providers to nurture the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, which is centered on a value chain of connections of things, data, processes, and people.

Actility’s Premium Network Partners stand out, as value-added resellers, excelling in consultancy, system integration, network and support. ModSoft, already a partner of Actility, has been instrumental in providing advice and technology, thereby facilitating IoT business models. The company has made a name for itself as an IT & Telecom solutions provider, offering its customers a wealth of expertise and further strengthening its authority in the Oman market for Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN).

As a Premium Network Partner, ModSoft has knowledge about ThingPark Wireless, a modular, multi-technology (LTE-M, NB-IoT and LoRaWAN), secure and scalable IoT Platform, and ThingPark X IoT Flow. This empowers them to devise Telecom solutions that are tailored to suit customer needs. Actility and ModSoft have already made their mark by successfully implementing novel IoT use cases in the region.

“This partnership with Actility reaffirms our commitment to digital innovation and underscores our determination to bring world-class IoT network solutions to our customers in Oman”

Mohammed Habeebuddin, Managing Director of ModSoft.

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“We are excited to embark on this journey with ModSoft, aiming for a mutually beneficial and enduring partnership”

Olivier Hersent, CEO of Actility.

About Modern Software:

Cloud Studio is an application platform provider offering a customizable, low-code, white-labeled, and completely hardware-agnostic cloud solution. It is the perfect tool for creating real-time monitoring and control dashboards, digital twins, condition-based monitoring, and more. All these functionalities and characteristics make it possible to scale projects with flexibility, allowing clients to minimize implementation costs and tailor their project plans to fit their unique business needs. The company’s technical team has more than 25 years of experience in automation projects, advising clients on every aspect of their IoT implementation.

About Actility:

Actility is the 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 large enterprises 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 numerous use cases. For more information, visit www.actility.com/contact.

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Revolutionize Sustainability and Efficiency with Actility & Cloud Studio’s IoT Solutions – Empowering a Cleaner, Safer, and Healthier World

Actility and Cloud Studio Deliver Two Innovative IoT Solutions for Waste Management and Indoor Air Quality

Press Release – Paris, France – June 6th 2023

Actility and Cloud Studio, a leading IoT platform provider and an Actility Solution Partner, are excited to announce the introduction of two groundbreaking solutions designed to leverage the power of IoT to improve waste management, and indoor air quality. Our goal is to create a more sustainable, efficient, and healthy world, and we believe these solutions are steppingstones to achieving this.

Cloud Studio offers a hardware-agnostic cloud solution that is customizable, low-code, and white-labeled: Gear Studio platform. This platform is ideal for creating real-time monitoring and control dashboards, digital twins, and condition-based monitoring. It’s perfectly integrated with ThingPark® Enterprise, making customers benefit from interoperability and connectivity solutions that are certified and compatible with LoRaWAN® standards.

The ThingPark Enterprise platform, accessible through ThingPark Community for free, provides a reliable LoRaWAN® connectivity infrastructure that enables enterprises to easily build a multi-gateway network and feed data to IoT applications while streamlining IoT network operations.

Smart Waste Management Made Easy with IoT Kit

Addressing the pressing issue of waste management, we are proud to introduce the IoT Waste Management Solution. This innovative kit employs cutting-edge technology to monitor fill levels in various waste containers, such as trash cans and dumpsters, with high precision and remote capabilities.

 When containers approach full capacity, the system triggers alarms to alert cleaning personnel, enabling prompt action to be taken. This proactive approach prevents overflows, reduces costs, energy consumption, decreases carbon emissions, and promotes a cleaner environment. Our waste management solution is an intuitive, precise, and plug-and-play monitoring solution that interacts with humans and machines to understand the customer’s environment and context, ensuring data qualifications for optimal waste management.

Breathing Easy with IoT: The Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Kit

Lastly, we present the IoT Indoor Air Quality Monitoring solution, a reliable way to monitor CO2 concentration, temperature, humidity, and occupancy levels in real-time. By triggering automatic alerts, this solution helps ensure that appropriate actions are taken to optimize indoor air quality and reduce the risk of virus transmission.

This accurate and flexible solution can be customized to fit the needs of various indoor environments. Utilizing advanced data analytics, it provides valuable insights to improve indoor air quality, enhancing occupant health and productivity.

In a world increasingly reliant on technology, we are proud to be at the forefront, developing solutions that not only address present challenges but also lay the groundwork for a more sustainable future. Join us as we embrace a new era of IoT solutions, all designed with an unwavering commitment to improving the quality of life for everyone.

About Cloud Studio:

Cloud Studio is an application platform provider offering a customizable, low-code, white-labeled, and completely hardware-agnostic cloud solution. It is the perfect tool for creating real-time monitoring and control dashboards, digital twins, condition-based monitoring, and more. All these functionalities and characteristics make it possible to scale projects with flexibility, allowing clients to minimize implementation costs and tailor their project plans to fit their unique business needs. The company’s technical team has more than 25 years of experience in automation projects, advising clients on every aspect of their IoT implementation.

About Actility:

Actility is the 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 large enterprises 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 numerous use cases. For more information, visit www.actility.com/contact.

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Northern Kenya Pioneers Africa’s Largest Landscape-Wide Iot Conservation Network

Northern Kenya Pioneers Africa’s Largest Landscape-Wide IoT Conservation Network

Press Release – Paris, France – May 29th 2023 

Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) and Connected Conservation are safeguarding Kenya’s most vulnerable species and natural resources with Africa’s largest landscape-wide IoT (Internet of Things) conservation network. 

The project is evolving wildlife and natural resource conservation by leveraging LoRaWAN IoT sensors and networks to collect, monitor and analyze real-time environmental data on a captivating scale. This data is coupled with analytics and conservation tools to help safeguard wildlife populations, promote peace, and empower community-led conservation.

NRT’s IoT conservation network was the first of its kind in Kenya and has been made possible by Connected Conservation Foundation (CCF), bringing together a coalition of private and public sector partners including NRT, Cisco, Actility, 51 Degrees with EarthRanger (AI2).

LoRaWAN IoT technology has emerged as a game-changing solution for natural reserves that require robust signal coverage over vast and hostile environments, which often have zero connectivity.

This now widely used conservation technology, allows battery-powered sensors to communicate via a long-range, ultra-low data rate connection, resulting in longer battery life. Additionally LoRa sensors are a fraction of the cost compared to satellite-enabled solutions – transforming the way conservation programs operate.

The IoT network currently covers 22 of NRT’s community-led conservancies and four private reserves, (Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Ol Jogi, Loisaba and Borana) with plans to bring more on board to increase coverage across the region. Over 190 new sensors have been deployed to all parks, with a further 250 scheduled.

“This IoT network is a game-changer for conservation efforts in Northern Kenya. We can now monitor our conservancies on a scale that was never possible. It is empowering our community-led conservancies to share, make decisions and collaborate in their conservation efforts.”

says NRT’s CEO, Tom Lalampaa.

“This cross-conservancy, IOT conservation network is changing the way private and community-led conservancies work together. Shared real-time information for large connected landscapes is helping secure threatened species, manage essential ecosystem services and benefit local communities.”

says Sophie Maxwell, Executive Director of Connected Conservation Foundation.

Improving peace and security

Data from the ranger, vehicle and wildlife sensors are helping rangers monitor and respond to threats to prevent poaching, share information on vulnerabilities, bolster conservation management strategies and promote peace and security between ethnic communities.

Rhino recovery

Now Kenya is one of the few places in the world where black rhino populations are on the rise. But with this success comes an urgency to establish safe and connected rangelands for these critically endangered species to roam. This project has enabled innovative ways to monitor the rhino population and has helped bring the removal of fences between conservancies, creating larger, connected habitats for rhinos. 

Our ongoing work with CCF, and other partners to deliver the largest landscape-wide IoT conservation network is part of Cisco’s Partnering for Purpose initiative. This network demonstrates the power of innovative technologies to support conservation efforts. Together, we are driving positive impact – creating safe havens for animals and empowering local communities.”

said Chris Panzeca, Senior Director, Global Strategic Partner Sales at Cisco.

Managing and verifying natural resources

2022 saw extreme drought in East Africa, sweeping away grasslands, water, local food and animals. NRT has huge challenges to sustainably manage its natural resources and to pre-empt and reduce both human and wildlife conflicts. 

The IoT network supports the plugin of livestock and environmental sensors to monitor foraging conditions, track livestock movements, and observe water levels that threaten the successful co-existence of wildlife and local people. 

Additionally, this natural resource tracking data will help validate the effectiveness of NRT’s protected areas and help unlock new revenue streams by verifying community rangeland management for carbon projects.

Combined, this massive IoT undertaking will contribute vital digital infrastructure, to help Kenyan partners measure and achieve the Global Biodiversity Targets set out at COP15 – to protect 30% of the planet for nature by 2030.

For this project, the comprehensive LoRaWAN network management is done using Actility’s ThingPark platform to efficiently manage gateways, integrate sensors, monitor network operations and regulate the flow of data to application servers.

“Few individuals readily connect wildlife conservation and IoT; however, the pairing is indeed a perfect match. Wildlife protection is an ideal use case for LPWAN IoT, given the vast territories to monitor, the necessity for long-lasting, low-cost sensors and the requirement for secure technology to combat poaching. We are delighted and proud to witness LoRaWAN and ThingPark playing a pivotal role in supporting this remarkable preservation endeavor.”

says Olivier Hersent, CEO at Actility.

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Impacts

NRT reports[1] the provision of real-time data, digital radio communications and cross-conservancy network collaboration, has helped accomplish a reduction in poaching and human-wildlife conflict. This has helped boost Black rhino numbers by 10% in Kenya.

NRT empowers 43 indigenous communities in Northern Kenya to manage their conservancies and maximize nature-based economies. Fair and transparent access to connectivity and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors is providing both private and local community-led conservancies with a boost in knowledge to prevent poaching, pre-empt human-wildlife conflict and halt habitat loss.

Samuel Lekimaroro, NRT’s Director of Wildlife Protection said, “These technologies are helping us achieve our goal of securing wildlife populations and bringing peace to the region.” 

About Cisco:

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About Connected Conservation Foundation:

Connected Conservation unites the capabilities of technology companies to equip local partners with game-changing tools for nature protection and restoration. CCF brings essential connectivity, communications and sensing devices to vast landscapes, enabling conservation managers to pre-empt and stop poaching, habitat loss and human-wildlife conflict in protected areas.https://connectedconservation.foundation/  

About Northern Rangelands Trust:

The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) is a Kenyan conservation organization that works to protect and restore the Northern Rangelands of Kenya. It is a membership organisation owned and led by the 43 community conservancies it serves in Kenya (northern and coastal regions) and Uganda and works with over half a million community members to preserve and protect wildlife and habitats, promote sustainable use of resources, and improve the livelihoods of the people living in the region. https://www.nrt-kenya.org/  

About Actility:

Actility is the 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. Most nationwide network service providers (over 50) and thousands of enterprises 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 numerous use cases.

Actility network management tools are distributed worldwide by Cisco teams and are used in a large variety of use cases for Smart Cities, Smart Buildings and Industries. For more information, visit www.actility.com/contact

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m2m Germany wird von Actility zum Premium Channel Partner in Deutschland ernannt

m2m Germany wird von Actility zum Premium Channel Partner in Deutschland ernannt

Pressemitteilung – Paris, Frankreich – 11. Mai 2023 Lesen Sie die englische Version hier

Actility, ein weltweit führender Anbieter von IoT-Konnektivitätslösungen, freut sich bekannt zu geben, dass m2m Germany, ein Spezialist für modernste drahtlose Kommunikationstechnologien, nun Premium Channel Partner für Deutschland ist. Nadine Jaeger, die kürzlich als Sales Director für Deutschland zu Actility gestoßen ist, wird eng mit dem Team von m2m Germany zusammenarbeiten.

m2m Germany ist bereits seit 2019 Actility-Partner. Aufgrund der vertrauensvollen Partnerschaft und des schnell wachsenden deutschen IoT-Marktes haben sich beide entschieden, die Partnerschaft noch weiter zu stärken.

m2m Germany, die ursprünglich als value-added-Distributor von Actility- und Abeeway-Produkten tätig war, ist nicht nur auf Actilitys Produktportfolio geschult, sondern agiert auch als Systemintegrator und LoRaWAN-Full-Service-Anbieter. m2m Germanys langjährige Erfahrung und technischer Fokus auf Funktechnologien wie LTE, Bluetooth, LoRa®, NB-IoT oder 5G ermöglichen es, Kunden über die gesamte Wertschöpfungskette hinweg zu unterstützen – von der Projektplanung über Prototyping und und Serienentwicklung bis hin zum After-Sales-Service.

m2m Germany ist branchenübergreifend tätig und baut seine Expertenposition auf dem deutschen Markt für LoRa/LoRaWAN® immer weiter aus. Als Anbieter von Komplettlösungen aus einer Hand ist m2m Germany der “One-Stop-Shop” für LPWAN-Lösungen.

Actility Produkte, wie unter anderem ThingPark Enterprise und ThingPark X, ermöglichen maßgeschneiderte Lösungen. Dies entspricht dem gemeinsamen Ziel von Actility und m2m Germany: unseren Kunden die bestmöglichen Lösungen und den besten Support zu bieten!

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“Wir freuen uns, einen Partner wie m2m Germany zu haben, der uns viele neue Möglichkeiten in einem wachsenden Markt wie Deutschland eröffnet. Gemeinsam werden wir unsere Expertise bündeln, um die perfekten IoT-Lösungen anzubieten und unsere Präsenz auf dem deutschen Markt gemeinsam auszubauen.”

Olivier Hersent, CEO von Actility.

“Unsere Partnerschaft mit Actility ist sehr erfolgreich und vorteilhaft für beide Parteien. Als Premium Channel Partner sind wir nun noch besser in der Lage, unseren Kunden umfassende IoT-Lösungen anzubieten und sie dabei zu unterstützen, das volle Potenzial ihres Unternehmens auszuschöpfen.”

Marius Nickolai , Geschäftsführer von m2m Germany. 

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Actility und m2m Germany werden auch gemeinsam auf der E-World 2023, der führenden Fachmesse der Energiebranche in Europa, präsent sein. Um mehr zu erfahren, besuchen Sie Actilitys E-World 2023 Seite oder treffen Sie uns vor Ort am Messestand!

Über m2m Germany:

m2m Germany ist ein Spezialist und Enabler für M2M- und IoT-Lösungen, der hauptsächlich in der D-A-CH-Region, aber auch international tätig ist. Fokussiert auf Funktechnologien wie LTE, Bluetooth, LoRa oder NB-IoT unterstützt m2m Germany seine Kunden seit 2007 von der ersten Idee über die Projektplanung, Prototypen- und Serienentwicklung bis hin zum After-Sales-Service. m2m Germany versteht sich als LoRaWAN-Full-Service-Provider und liefert die entsprechende Hard- & Software sowie die passende LoRaWAN-Netzwerkserverlösung.

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Über Actility:

Actility ist weltweit führender Anbieter industrietauglicher LPWAN (Low-Power-Wide-Area-Networks) Konnektivitätslösungen für das Internet der Dinge. Actility bietet seine ThingPark™-Plattform und Netzwerktechnologie an, um öffentliche und private drahtlose IoT-Netzwerke innerhalb einer einheitlichen, skalierbaren und vielseitigen Netzwerkinfrastruktur bereitzustellen, zu betreiben und zu warten. Die meisten landesweiten Netzwerkdienstleister (über 50) und Tausende von Unternehmen auf der ganzen Welt vertrauen auf ThingPark™. Über seine Tochtergesellschaft Abeeway bietet Actility auch patentierte Ultra-Low-Power-Tracking-Lösungen an. ThingPark Market bietet die größte Auswahl an interoperablen IoT-Gateways, -Geräten und -Anwendungen zur Vereinfachung und Beschleunigung der Implementierung zahlreicher Anwendungsfälle an. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter www.actility.com/contact.

m2m Germany appointed by Actility as a Premium Channel Partner in Germany

m2m Germany appointed by Actility as a Premium Channel Partner in Germany

Press Release – Paris, France – May 11th, 2023. Read the version in German here

Actility, a global leader in IoT connectivity solutions, is thrilled to announce that m2m Germany, a specialist in state-of-the-art wireless communication technologies, is now a Premium Channel Partner for Germany. Nadine Jaeger who recently joined Actility as a Sales Director for Germany will work closely together with m2m Germany local teams.

m2m Germany and Actility have been partners since 2019. Due to this trustful partnership and the fast growing German IoT market both decided to strengthen their relation.

Initially being a value-added distributor of Actility and Abeeway products, m2m Germany in addition to being trained on Actility’s product portfolio, now proceeds as a system integrator and LoRaWAN full-service provider. m2m Germany’s long experience and technical focus on radio technologies such as LTE, Bluetooth, LoRa®, NB-IoT or 5G allows them to support customers through the entire value chain from project planning, prototyping and implementation up to after-sales service.

m2m Germany operates across various industries, expanding its expert position in the German market for LoRa/LoRaWAN®. Being a supplier of complete solutions from a single source, m2m Germany is the “one-stop shop” for LPWAN solutions.

Actility products such as ThingPark Enterprise, ThingPark X, enable custom tailored solutions. in accordance with Actility’s and m2m Germany’s common goal: to offer the best possible solutions and support to our customers!

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“We are delighted to have a partner like m2m Germany, which opens many new possibilities in a growing market such as the German one. Together we will merge our expertise, to offer the perfect IoT solutions, and expand our presence on the German market together.”

Olivier Hersent, CEO of Actility

“Our partnership with Actility has been highly successful and beneficial for both parties. As a Premium Channel Partner, we are now in an even better position to offer comprehensive IoT solutions to our customers, helping them unlock the full potential of their businesses.”

Marius Nickolai, CEO of m2m Germany

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In the continuation of our partnership Actility and m2m Germany will jointly participate in E-World’s 2023 edition, the leading energy industry event in Europe. To learn more, visit Actility’s E-World 2023 page or meet us at the event! 

About m2m Germany 

m2m Germany is a specialist and enabler for M2M and IoT solutions, operating mainly in the D-A-CH region, but also internationally. Focused on wireless technologies such as LTE, Bluetooth, LoRa or NB-IoT, m2m Germany has been supporting its customers since 2007, from the initial idea to project planning, prototype and series development and after-sales service. m2m Germany sees itself as a LoRaWAN full service provider and supplies the appropriate hardware & software as well as the suitable LoRaWAN network server solution.

Am Kappengraben 18E-Mail:  sales@m2mgermany.de

D-61273 Wehrheim www.m2mgermany.de

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About Actility 

Actility is the 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 enterprises 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 numerous use cases.

For more information, visit www.actility.com/contact.

Actility verstärkt seine Präsenz auf dem deutschen IoT Markt

Actility verstärkt seine Präsenz auf dem deutschen IoT Markt

Pressemitteilung – Paris, Frankreich – 18 April 2023. Lesen Sie die englische Version hier

Actility, der führende Anbieter von Multitechnologie-LPWAN-Netzen, gab heute bekannt, dass er sich verstärkt auf den deutschen Markt konzentrieren will, um dem rasanten Wachstum der IoT-Branche und der LoRaWAN-Implementierungen in Deutschland gerecht zu werden. 

Laut IoT Analytics wird erwartet, dass der IoT-Markt in Deutschland von 11 Milliarden Dollar im Jahr 2022 um 18 % mehr auf 13 Milliarden Dollar im Jahr 2023 wachsen wird. Zu den wichtigsten Sektoren, die dieses Wachstum vorantreiben, gehören die diskrete Fertigung (3,9 Milliarden Dollar), die Automobilindustrie (2,1 Milliarden Dollar) und die hybride Fertigung (1,4 Milliarden Dollar). Einer der meistumgesetzten IoT-Anwendungsfälle in Deutschland ist die IoT-basierte Anlagen-/Arbeitersicherheit, die 72 % ausmacht, dicht gefolgt vom Anlagenmonitoring.

Actility hat das Potenzial des deutschen Marktes erkannt und Deutschland als einen Kernmarkt positioniert. Das Unternehmen hat bereits starke Partnerschaften mit lokalen Unternehmen aufgebaut.

Um seine Präsenz in Deutschland weiter zu stärken, hat Actility Nadine Jaeger zur Vertriebsleiterin für Deutschland ernannt. Nadine Jaeger war in Ihrer vorherigen Rolle als Business Development Manager für Sensing Labs tätig.

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“Unser verstärkter Fokus auf Deutschland spiegelt unsere Anerkennung des immensen Potenzials und Wachstums der IoT-Industrie in diesem Land wider. Wir wollen mit unseren innovativen IoT-Lösungen und unserem Fachwissen die laufende digitale Transformation in Deutschland unterstützen und Unternehmen und Städten helfen, von der Einführung modernster Technologien zu profitieren.”

Olivier Hersent, Geschäftsführer bei Actility

Deutschland erlebt, angetrieben durch die Entwicklung der Industrie 4.0., eine erhebliche Dynamik im IoT-Bereich. Es wird erwartet, dass der deutsche LPWAN-Markt steigende Umsätze generieren wird, da die Regierung und Fertigungsunternehmen traditionelle Methoden durch LPWAN-Technologie ersetzen. Dies ist Teil des deutschen Hightech-Strategieplans, der den Akzent im Rahmen der Industrie 4.0-Revolution auf die Einführung von IoT in der Fertigung legt.

Actility ist zusammen mit der Tochtergesellschaft Abeeway gut gewappnet, um den wachsenden IoT-Bedarf in Deutschland zu decken, und hat ein umfassendes Angebot an Lösungen, die den verschiedenen Anforderungen der Industrie gerecht werden. Die ThingPark-Plattform ermöglicht den Einsatz von unlizenzierten und lizenzierten LPWAN-Anwendungsfällen, während eine Reihe von Abeeway-Trackern maßgeschneiderte IoT-Lösungen für die Geolokalisierung und die Sicherheit von Anlagen und Arbeitern bietet. 

Actility wird auch auf der E-World 2023, der führenden Veranstaltung der Energiebranche in Europa, präsent sein. Um mehr zu erfahren, besuchen Sie Actilitys E-World 2023 Seite oder treffen Sie uns auf der Veranstaltung!

Über Actility 

Actility ist der weltweit führende Anbieter von Low-Power-Wide-Area-Networks (LPWAN) für industrietaugliche IoT-Konnektivitätslösungen. Actility bietet seine ThingPark™-Plattform und Netzwerktechnologie an, um öffentliche und private drahtlose IoT-Netzwerke innerhalb einer einheitlichen, skalierbaren und vielseitigen Netzwerkinfrastruktur bereitzustellen, zu betreiben und zu warten. Die meisten landesweiten Netzwerkdienstleister (über 50) und Tausende von Unternehmen auf der ganzen Welt vertrauen auf ThingPark™. Über die Tochtergesellschaft Abeeway bietet Actility auch patentierte Ultra-Low-Power-Tracking-Lösungen an. ThingPark Market bietet die größte Auswahl an interoperablen IoT-Gateways, -Geräten und -Anwendungen zur Vereinfachung und Beschleunigung der Implementierung zahlreicher Anwendungsfälle. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter www.actility.com/contact.

Actility Strengthens Its Presence on the German IoT Market

Actility Strengthens Its Presence on the German IoT Market

Press Release – Paris, France – 18 April 2023 Read the version in German here.

Actility, the leading provider of multi-technology LPWAN core networks, today announced its increased focus on the German market, acknowledging the rapid growth of the IoT industry and LoRaWAN deployments in the country.

According to IoT Analytics, the IoT market in Germany is expected to grow by 18%, from $11 billion in 2022 to $13 billion in 2023. Key sectors driving this growth include discrete manufacturing ($3.9 billion), automotive ($2.1 billion), and hybrid manufacturing ($1.4 billion). The IoT use case with the highest adoption rate in Germany is IoT-based plant/worker safety, which accounts for 72%, followed by asset monitoring.

Recognizing the potential of the German market, Actility has identified Germany as a key market. The company has already established strong partnerships with local organizations.

To further strengthen its presence in Germany, Actility has appointed Nadine Jaeger as Sales Director for Germany. Before joining Actility, Nadine had served as Business Development Manager for Sensing Labs.

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“Our increased focus on Germany reflects our recognition of the immense potential and growth of the IoT industry in the country. We are committed to providing our innovative IoT solutions and expertise to support the ongoing digital transformation in Germany and to help businesses and cities benefit from the adoption of cutting-edge technologies.”

Olivier Hersent, CEO of Actility

Germany witnesses a significant momentum in the IoT space, driven by the evolution of Industry 4.0. The German LPWAN market is expected to generate increasing revenue as the government and manufacturing companies implement LPWAN technology-based products instead of traditional methods. This is part of Germany’s high-tech strategy plan, which emphasizes the adoption of IoT in manufacturing under the Industry 4.0 revolution.

Actility, along with its subsidiary Abeeway, is well-equipped to address the growing IoT needs in Germany, offering a comprehensive range of solutions that tackle various industry demands. The ThingPark platform enables the deployment of unlicensed and licensed LPWAN use cases, while a range of Abeeway trackers provide tailored IoT solutions for asset tracking and plant/worker safety.

Actility will also attend E-World 2023, the leading energy industry event in Europe. To learn more, visit Actility’s E-World 2023 page or meet us at the event!

About Actility 

Actility is the 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 enterprises 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 numerous use cases.

For more information, visit www.actility.com/contact.

Actility and UnaBiz Integrate LoRaWAN® and Sigfox 0G technology to Unify the LPWAN World

Actility and UnaBiz Integrate LoRaWAN® and Sigfox 0G technology to Unify the LPWAN World

Press Release – Singapore & Paris, France – April 18th 2023

Actility, the leading provider of unlicensed multi-radio LPWAN infrastructure, and UnaBiz, global Massive IoT service provider and integrator have announced a strategic collaboration to integrate their respective platforms and ecosystems. The joint effort aims to bring the power of LoRaWAN® and Sigfox 0G technology together in a simple and unified manner, enabling customers to meet their diverse networking requirements and accelerate their IoT projects.

Actility, the co-inventor of LoRaWAN® and founding member of LoRa Alliance® serves LoRaWAN and cellular-based public and private LPWAN networks with its ThingPark® platform, and low-power geolocation use cases with its Abeeway trackers. UnaBiz, the new owner of Sigfox 0G technology specialises in sensor product design, manufacturing, and data platform services across a hybrid of network communication technologies to power sustainable business growth. In order to better serve customers that require a range of LPWAN connectivity solutions, UnaBiz and Actility have integrated their platforms at two different levels .

A specific ThingPark X connector is used in the first type of integration to link networks powered by ThingPark to UnaConnect, UnaBiz’s tech-agnostic data management platform. Users of UnaConnect may now access data flows collected from LoRaWAN® and NB-IoT/LTE-M devices that are served by the ThingPark network deployments and global IoT SIMs thanks to this integration.

The second  integration brings Sigfox data  to LoRaWAN networks and applications via the ThingPark Exchange roaming hub. This helps to translate Sigfox frames to LoRaWAN® frames and vice versa. Any standard LoRaWAN network connected to ThingPark Exchange and IoT applications built for LoRaWAN® can now leverage devices powered by Sigfox 0G technology without any special adaptation.

As both integration methods are independent of one another,  customers may choose to use them separately or in combination.

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“It is a reality that the market uses a mix of LPWAN technologies. UnaBiz and Actility  have decided to integrate both our technologies in multiple ways so that any customer may easily utilise either, or a combination of the two, instead of being forced to choose one or do a complex integration on their own. This partnership serves as a resounding affirmation of our shared goal of building Massive IoT.”

Olivier Hersent, CEO of Actility

“Actility was one of the first LoRaWAN partners to share our vision of Convergence. We are extremely pleased to take another step towards our vision of a United LPWAN World, and excited to see the integration of our technologies happen so swiftly. We will work closely with Actility to help our partners bring new solutions to the market to help our customers accelerate their adoption of multi-technology projects!”

Henri Bong, Co-Founder & CEO of UnaBiz

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About UnaBiz

UnaBiz is a global Massive IoT service provider and integrator that specialises in solution design, manufacturing, connectivity and data platform services across a hybrid of network communication technologies to power sustainable business growth. UnaBiz owns the Sigfox 0G technology which powers the global 0G Network that connects over 11 million sensors for 1500 B2B customers in collaboration with 70+ national 0G Operators and global strategic partners. For more information, visit www.unabiz.com.

About Actility 

Actility is the 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 enterprises 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 numerous use cases.

For more information, visit www.actility.com/contact.

Tunja City Implements IoT Taxi Tracking with Illumination and Abeeway

Tunja City Implements IoT Taxi Tracking with Illumination and Abeeway

Press Release – Tunja, Colombia & Paris, France – April 4th 2022 

Tunja city, Colombia, has successfully deployed an IoT project of city taxis fleet tracking and safety, in order to provide the drivers with a mean of self-protection.  The solution, initiated by Iluminacion.co, a leading Colombian provider of IoT and renewable energy solutions, is based on Abeeway tracking devices and innovative ultra-low-power LoRaWAN® connectivity for data transfer.

Finding a way to increase drivers’ safety  

Tunja is a city in northeast Colombia and the capital of the Boyacá department, with roughly 170,000 inhabitants. Tunja is an important educational center of well-known universities of the country and is now on its way to becoming the first Smart City in Colombia.

The city has a fleet of roughly 1200 taxis. The drivers are independent and pay for the vehicles with their own money. Which means in case of aggression or theft of their vehicle they incur financial loss and have no protection. There is no efficient call number for police to take immediate action.  

The Tunja City Administration was looking for a solution and approached Ilumination.co, which led to a first ongoing pilot project, covering the first batch of 200 taxis being tracked across the city. The city has already approved the deployment of 1000 more taxis. The project is based on Abeeway Micro Trackers that are connected to the lighter of the car for constant power supply and provide location information every 3 minutes throughout the day.

The Panic Button of the tracker plays a crucial role as it allows drivers to alert the police forces and be located very quickly. On the other hand, the police department is interested in deploying the trackers on their own vehicles fleet for real-time location and dispatch.

Unmatched network technology combined with a flexible tracking solution 

The reason a LoRaWAN-based solution has convinced the city officials is its uncontestable coverage advantages over cellular networking technologies like 4G which happens to present a lot of blind spots. Conventional cellular-based GPS devices do not work everywhere, and, furthermore, their radio signal can be easily jammed, facilitating theft.

LoRaWAN® is a widely used wireless communication technology, which makes use of unlicensed radio spectrum and allows battery-powered sensors to communicate with IoT applications across a very long-range while supporting low data rates.

LoRaWAN came to be extremely handy for this city, which presents a difficult geographical environment with mountains, hills and high buildings. It’s more efficient and cheaper than cellular or satellite networks. LoRaWAN transmissions can pass through glass, metal, and concrete, allowing data to be sent not only outdoors, but also deep indoors and underground, which is a definite advantage for an anti-theft solution.  Moreover, just a couple gateways enable covering huge areas and deploying IoT use cases without a significant cost and delay.

Benefiting from LoRaWAN’s characteristics, Abeeway provides long autonomy devices that allow continuous usage for months and years. The devices work both indoors and outdoors thanks to their multi-technology geolocation system, integrating standard and Abeeway’s patented Low-power GPS, WiFi sniffing, Bluetooth Low Energy Beaconing feature for precise indoor tracking.

It turned out that the GPS coverage in Tunja is excellent due to its overall altitude of over 2 800 m above sea level. The positions are received with no chance of failure, while the usage of LoRaWAN allows to avoid all disruption in communication: all location points are retrieved and allow to get the transit data in any case.

Abeeway devices combine cutting-edge location technologies, robust hardware, a meticulous selection of high-performing low-power chipsets and the no-compromise optimization of software. This allows flexible behavior, highly responsive to changing needs, and guaranteeing asset and people location in various coverage scenarios.

Building the first smart city in Colombia

The collaboration between Iluminacion.co and Abeeway and Actility was crucial for the success of this project and serves as a model for other cities seeking to improve the safety and efficiency of their transportation systems. The use of IoT and LoRaWAN technology has proven to be an effective solution for cities looking to become smart cities.

Tunja City administration is not stopping there: it has great plans for development. LoRaWAN is a new technology in the country, but the city is already planning on taking advantage of the mutualization opportunity of the LoRaWAN network: other city divisions can use the same network to install all kinds of sensors to monitor city assets and activities, like smart water metering and smart street lighting, and also tracking city buses, having better control of traffic lights in order to reduce pollution and improve operations.

Furthermore, this project also laid the foundation for Tunja to incorporate more aspects of smart city technology, such as waste management and outdoor lighting, as the platform is highly adaptable and can be used for multiple use cases in a single instance. The city plans to include other smart city initiatives, streamlining the management and monitoring of multiple systems in real-time. This means that the city can efficiently move forward with new projects and optimize resources to improve the quality of life for its citizens.

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“Honored to be one of the first projects in Latin America implementing IOT to enhance security and public service. Colombia is a great country of opportunity and capability for growth within technology and this IOT implementation showcased that traditional issues can be overcome with new technology.”

Ginette Cardozo, Commercial Director at Iluminacion.co SAS

“At Actility, we are honored to have been a part of the Tunja city IoT project by providing our innovative Abeeway tracking devices using LoRaWAN® connectivity. It is heartening to know that our technology has played a significant role in increasing the safety and security of taxi drivers in Tunja. We are proud to have contributed to this project and hope that it will serve as an inspiration for other cities to adopt similar IoT solutions for their communities.”

Olivier Hersent, CEO at Actility

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About ILUMINACION.CO SAS

Iluminacion.co SAS is a leader in technology development and renewable energy in the Colombian marketplace and delivers custom and innovative solutions to common issues by blending the best in technology with renewable energy and energy efficiency.

IoT is a relatively new and is built upon an established radio technology, yet when the City of Tunja contacted us for a GPS based tracking solution and panic response we did design an IoT radio-based system that overcame the City-wide issues with 4G communication blackspots and erratic geography that caused traditional 4G and WIFI signals to be unstable.

This was a difficult challenge as topography really did destabilize traditional radio communication

The project in Tunja was built upon quality trackers made by Abeeway and Custom radio Antennas designed by Iluminacion.co and backbone infrastructure of Actility network. This pairing of technologies allowed Iluminacion.co SAS to deliver a stable, reliable, long range, low power and low bandwidth custom network to the City of Tunja so that the Taxis could be tracked and Panic events reported live to relevant authorities

About Abeeway 

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™

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About Actility 

Actility is the 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 enterprises 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 numerous use cases.

For more information, visit https://www.actility.com/contact.

Cisco’s LoRaWAN Module for the IR1110 Industrial Router is Now Fully Integrated with ThingPark® LoRaWAN® Network Platform

Cisco’s LoRaWAN Module for the IR1110 Industrial Router is Now Fully Integrated with ThingPark® LoRaWAN® Network Platform

Press Release – Paris, France – March 30, 2023

Actility, the industry leader in low power wide area networks (LPWAN), announces the integration of Cisco’s LoRaWAN module for the IR1110 industrial router into its ThingPark® platform to simplify and accelerate the ability to extend LPWAN connectivity to remote sites and meet the connectivity requirements of businesses wherever they operate.

At the Mobile World Congress in February of 2023, Cisco announced its pluggable interface modules (PIM) for the Cisco Catalyst IR1100 Rugged Series Routers for long-range wide-area network (LoRaWAN) connectivity.

Actility has a long history of close working relationships with Cisco, as a technology and solution partner but also with Cisco being one of the Actility’s investors and worldwide Channel Partner, deploying LoRaWAN solutions across the world. Actility’s Long Range Relay base station (LRR) software has already been integrated into Cisco’s LoRaWAN Interface Module for LPWA IoT networks since 2016, allowing to combine Actility’s best-in-class LoRaWAN network software with their cutting-edge hardware solution and integration capability. But now, the companies have reached a new step in delivering the most cutting-edge solution on the market, fueling the explosive growth of IoT globally.

The Cisco PIM for LoRaWAN enables long-range, low-power connectivity for industrial IoT sensors. It can fit in space-constrained and distributed environments and can be used as a LoRaWAN gateway. Unlike other solutions, the Catalyst IR1101 LoRaWAN module offers flexibility and scalability to install in various locations. When using the router with two modules, it can function as an integrated LoRaWAN gateway with 4G/5G backhaul capabilities, making it easy to deploy in tight spaces.

Users of Cisco routers can easily transition to adding LoRaWAN connectivity without the need to purchase a new router. They can simply upgrade their existing router to start utilizing LoRaWAN technology with the help of the new pluggable module.

The Actility’s ThingPark Enterprise and ThingPark Wireless clients are already integrated into this module, allowing the gateway to seamlessly connect with ThingPark without requiring a software update, and providing users with automatic access to a suite of powerful tools. Furthermore, the IR1110 Cisco Router can be conveniently upgraded in the field to become ThingPark-compatible as this module can be effortlessly inserted into it.

The integration allows enterprise, industrial and public sector customers to implement value-added end-to-end industrial IoT use cases such as infrastructure monitoring, industrial automation, geolocation, metering, and more.

Data collected from LoRaWAN field sensors is locally decoded by ThingPark’s edge processing leveraging a comprehensive catalogue of drivers. ThingPark also implements a rich library of connectors which take care of activation and synchronization of digital twins at scale for all leading IoT platforms including Microsoft Azure IoT Hub and IoT Central, AWS IoT Core, PTC Thingworx,  and many more.

Actility’s ThingPark Enterprise platform, accessible for free through ThingPark Community, provides a dependable LoRaWAN connectivity infrastructure to efficiently connect your low-power IoT devices. It streamlines IoT network operations, providing enterprises with a proficient UX to easily build a multi-gateway LoRaWAN network and feed data to IoT applications.

ThingPark Wireless is the preferred IoT network platform for Service Providers rolling out LPWAN connectivity services. ThingPark Wireless powers the vast majority of large scale nationwide LoRaWAN network deployments worldwide. ThingPark Wireless is designed for security, carrier-grade availability and scalability. The platform is open, modular and supports the latest specifications of the LoRa Alliance, enabling seamless interconnection with other public and private networks.

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“Many industries are now deploying a blanket of unlicensed long range IoT radio coverage over their buildings, campuses, parkings, construction sites, etc. The energy crisis is accelerating this trend. The main difficulty is to securely integrate this new infrastructure within the existing industrial networks. Cisco is solving this problem beautifully with the new PIM LoRaWAN GW module for the IR1101 industrial routers. Hundreds of thousands of these routers have already been deployed to form the backbone of industrial IP networks, and now adding LoRaWAN is a no-hassle “plug-in” option.  This could not come timelier to provide decision makers with full visibility on their energy and other utility costs, and more generally for asset tracking and optimization. We are glad to provide turnkey support for Cisco LoRaWAN PIM modules and wireless gateways in ThingPark Enterprise LPWAN infrastructure.”

Olivier Hersent, CEO at Actility

About Actility 

Actility is the 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 enterprises 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 numerous use cases.

For more information, visit https://www.actility.com/contact.

Nova Labs Partners with Actility to Provide Widespread Access to the Helium Roaming Console

Nova Labs Partners with Actility to Provide Widespread Access to the Helium Roaming Console

Any public or private LoRaWAN® operator can now set up roaming with the Helium Network via Actility

Orlando, Fla. March 15, 2023

Today, Actility, the world leader in Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN) industrial-grade connectivity solutions for the Internet of Things, announced a partnership with Nova Labs to allow any public and private LoRaWAN® network operator to leverage the power of the Nova Labs’ Helium Roaming Console through Actility. The announcement was made at the annual LoRa Alliance® meeting in Orlando. 

The partnership is the next phase of Nova Labs and Actility’s technical integration, which has helped many public and private LoRaWAN networks extend their own infrastructure and utilize coverage provided by the Helium Network. The Helium Network is a blockchain-based open-source project of the Helium Foundation that provides public wireless coverage for a wide range of 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) devices across 192 countries. The technical integration with the Helium Network is done through Nova Labs’ Helium Roaming Console and Actility’s ThingPark Exchange, the industry’s first and de facto standard LoRaWAN® IoT peering hub.

“Through our integration, we’ve seen just how beneficial it is for our users to have connectivity to the Helium Network. Via our partnership with Nova Labs, we’re excited to extend these benefits to the larger community and enable any LoRaWAN network operator to achieve both technical and commercial integration with the Helium Network.”

Alper Yegin, Actility’s CTO

“Nova Labs’ mission is to remove friction and reduce costs that plague IoT connectivity. Actility has proven to be an exceptional partner to us.”

Frank Mong, COO of Nova Labs

Frank Mong, COO of Nova Labs

Historically, LoRaWAN-compatible devices were able leverage the Helium Network by being interconnected via Actility’s ThingPark Exchange; now, Actility will serve as a reseller, enabling any public or private LoRaWAN network operator to set up roaming with the Helium Network.

About Nova Labs 

Founded in 2013, Nova Labs (formerly Helium Systems, Inc.) is a for-profit entity composed of the original founding team behind the open-source Helium Network. As the pioneer of decentralized wireless communications, Nova Labs has a two-pronged mission: to solve the unnecessary fragmentation and costs that plague IoT connectivity through 1663, their IoT division, and to enable people to genuinely benefit from the success of their mobile carrier through Nova Labs’s Helium Mobile service. For more information, visit nova.xyz.

LoRaWAN® is a mark used under license from the LoRa Alliance®

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About Actility 

Actility is the 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 enterprises 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 numerous use cases.

For more information, visit https://www.actility.com/contact.

Actility selects iBasis and Sequans to deploy LTE-M solutions with eSIM and iSIM

Actility selects iBasis and Sequans to deploy LTE-M solutions with eSIM and iSIM

Press Release – Paris, France & Lexington, MA – March 1st 2023.

  • iBASIS and Sequans have been selected by Actility to meet its delivery schedule for eSIM and iSIM
  • iBASIS and Sequans now considered frontrunners in programmable cellular IoT solutions; integrated deployments expected to represent up to 82% of total eSIM-capable device shipments by 2030
  • The move to iSIM comes as a result of 3+ years of R&D and close collaboration between iBASIS, Sequans, and other IoT ecosystem partners

iBASIS, the leading provider of communications solutions for operators and digital players worldwide, and Sequans Communications S.A. (NYSE: SQNS), a leading developer and provider of 5G/4G chips and modules, today announced that Actility, a leading provider of IoT connectivity platform, has chosen iBASIS and Sequans to roll out programmable cellular IoT solutions with eSIM and iSIM.

Actility had previously worked closely with iBASIS to enable roaming between private unlicensed networks powered by ThingPark EPC Connector and public networks, using Simfony’s CMP platform, now fully integrated with iBASIS’ Global Access for Things™ IoT portfolio. The longstanding partnership between iBASIS and Sequans has produced several successful proofs of concept. 

The new ultra-low-power multi-technology trackers of Abeeway, a fully owned Actility subsidiary, will benefit from Sequans Monarch 2 LTE-M/NB-IoT platform with integrated iSIM and the connectivity profile provided by iBASIS, allowing the device to connect to cellular networks worldwide. Actility will also benefit from Sequans Monarch 2 being the first iSIM implementation that has achieved common criteria EAL5+ certification, allowing the use of iBASIS’ intelligent profile selection technology with remote update using multiple Tier-1 operator profiles as provided for eSIM.

iSIM is fully integrated in the cellular modem and microcontroller unit on a single system on chip (SoC). It relies on the existing eSIM infrastructure accessing 2/3/4/5G networks using the global footprint of iBASIS. iSIM is considered to be the future of connectivity technology for many IoT deployments. 

An important step forward in the IoT industry, iSIM will positively influence device design in the areas of space optimization, and reduction of energy and power consumption. By eliminating the need for a separate SIM chip, iSIM will provide the customer with a more streamlined supply chain experience when manufacturing a device using cellular connectivity. The entire supply chain will benefit from the reduction of materials which will lead to lower costs for manufacturers. 

According to Counterpoint Research, beyond 2027 iSIM is projected to take over as the dominant SIM form factor, with the shipments of iSIM-capable devices poised to scale to 7 billion units between 2021 and 2030.  

With the iBASIS Global Access for Things™ industry-leading coverage, eSIM/iSIM enables enterprises to easily adopt a single global, remotely programmable SIM that provides mobile data connectivity to smart devices all over the world. 

“After recent collaboration with iBASIS, adding iBASIS connectivity on our Monarch 2 module with eSIM, and having fully tested the global connectivity on iSIM, we are now advancing into an integrated production phase driven by a customer need. We are thrilled to reach this important milestone with iBASIS whereby we can offer customers a powerful iSIM capability, along with low power consumption, cost-efficiency, and GNSS support.”

Louis Chuang, EVP of Sequans’ Massive IoT Business Unit.

“After being recognized as a leader in the cellular IoT connectivity market with eSIMs, we are delighted to implement iSIM technology together with our trusted partner Sequans. After many years of research and development, while deploying iSIM technology in trial environments, it is a great achievement by our teams. This once again underlines that iBASIS is a frontrunner and truly lives by its motto: ‘Be there first’. We strongly believe that iSIM will become a dominant factor within the IoT industry and I am proud to see that we are now able to provide our longstanding customer Actility with our proven IoT connectivity on iSIM.”

said Ajay Joseph, CEO IoT & CTO, iBASIS.

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“Our focus is ultra-low-power industrial IoT connectivity. The new cellular trackers of our subsidiary Abeeway leverage LTE-M and NB-IoT, and our ThingPark EPC Connector for unlicensed private cellular networks (such as CBRS) rely on recent 3GPP slicing technologies. We needed cutting edge partners to support reliable LTE-M connections with PSM/eDRX options in permanent roaming as well as iSIMs: after extensive testing we selected Sequans for their ability to support iSIMs and because 100 percent of their software stack is developed in-house, and iBASIS for their ability to support complex integration and their focus on quality, based on proactive testing. Together, I think we form the dream team for industrial low-power IoT.”

said Olivier Hersent, CEO of Actility.

To find out more, visit iBASIS in Hall 2, MR 2A6 and 2A8, and Sequans in Hall 5, Stand 5H40, at Mobile World Congress from February 27 to March 2 in Barcelona.

About iBASIS 

iBASIS is the leading communications solutions provider enabling operators and digital players worldwide to perform and transform. Powered by Tofane Global, iBASIS is the first independent communications specialist, ranking third largest global wholesale voice operator, Top 3 LTE IPX vendor with 700+ LTE destinations, and a leading Carrier Cloud Communications player and IoT solution provider. iBASIS provides the end-to-end Global Access for Things™ connectivity solution, delivering single source cellular IoT access (LTE, LTE-M and NB-IoT) worldwide provisioned through GSMA-standard eSIM/eUICC technology. iBASIS today serves 1,000+ customers across 26 offices worldwide. For more information, please visit iBASIS.com.

About Sequans 

Sequans Communications S.A. (NYSE: SQNS) is a leading developer and supplier of cellular
IoT connectivity solutions, providing chips and modules for 5G/4G massive and broadband
IoT. For 5G/4G massive IoT applications, Sequans provides a comprehensive product portfolio based on its flagship Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT and Calliope Cat 1 chip platforms, featuring industry-leading low power consumption, a large set of integrated functionalities, and global deployment capability. For 5G/4G broadband IoT applications, Sequans offers a product portfolio based on its Cassiopeia Cat 4/Cat 6 4G and high-end Taurus 5G chip platforms, optimized for low-cost residential, enterprise, and industrial applications. Founded in 2003, Sequans is based in Paris, France with additional offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Hong Kong, Singapore, Finland, Taiwan, South Korea, and China. Visit Sequans online at www.sequans.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Actility 

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.   

Contact us here: https://www.actility.com/contact 

New IoT solution for Level Monitoring released by Pepperl+Fuchs, Akenza.io and Actility

New IoT solution for Level Monitoring released by Pepperl + Fuchs, Akenza.io and Actility

Press Release – 20 February 2023 – Paris, France

Actility, in joint work with Pepperl + Fuchs, known around the world as a pioneer and an innovator in electrical explosion protection and sensor technology, and akenza.io a low-code IoT platform, now offer a new IoT solution for smart level monitoring and management solution.

The solution is using LoRaWAN® connectivity and includes the Pepperl + Fuchs WILSEN.sonic.level battery-operated wireless level sensor, LoRaWAN ® Network Server and Management platform from Actility – ThingPark Enterpise, and the application operated on the akenza IoT platform. It is used to remotely monitor fill levels in containers, tanks, and silos, as well as monitoring water levels of rivers, lakes, and flood basins.

This IoT Smart Level Monitoring is now available on ThingPark Market, Actility’s IoT solutions marketplace!

The most innovative ultrasonic solution to ensure industrial flexibility

The solution is used to monitor fill levels in containers, tanks, and silos remotely. In addition, river, lake, and flood basin water levels are monitored. More than just filling levels are transmitted by the sensor. GPS data from the sensor enables the tracking of assets such as containers, while other information such as temperature readings and battery charge status enable predictive maintenance capabilities.

The solution is a must-have for those who face daily challenges such as environmental and natural disaster risks, such as rivers and lakes overflowing their banks and flood basin levels, because they conduct manual observations rather than using technologically stress-free environments.

Another significant challenge that our solution may face is that waste management executives are frustrated with the non-interconnected waste management system. Managing waste management crews is a difficult task. They require a remote monitoring system to ensure that the containers are only collected once they have been filled to a predetermined level.

Where to apply the solution?

Smart Farming: Food and energy are both supplied by modern agriculture. Farmers can use the WILSEN.sonic.level to remotely monitor the fill level of distributed feed silos or the pit of a biogas plant. Using an IoT system like this relieves the farmer of inspection rounds and frees up time for important tasks in his efficient operation.

Smart Environment: The wireless sensor WILSEN.sonic.level measures river, lake, and flood basin fill levels. It transmits additional information such as temperature, geolocation, and battery status over long distances, allowing for better flood protection.

Smart Cities: Cities and municipalities are under increasing pressure to provide citizens with convenient, environmentally friendly living arrangements. The WILSEN.sonic.level enables intelligent disposal management, in which the filling levels of used glass, old clothes, and recyclables containers are remotely monitored and collected only when they reach a predetermined level.

Smart Logistics: In a globalized world, efficient supply chains must not run out of raw materials and supplies. The WILSEN.sonic.level aids in determining tank or silo fill levels. It enables the supplier to provide their customers with a supply logistics system that is tailored to their specific requirements.

What you will find in the kit:

Pepperl+Fuchs WILSEN.sonic.level UCC2500 sensor or UCC4000 sensor

The battery-powered wireless ultrasonic sensor WILSEN.sonic.level from Pepperl+Fuchs can be used for remote monitoring of all types of fill levels. The level, as well as additional parameters such as geo data and status data of the sensor, is recorded at adjustable time intervals. The data transmission is wireless via LoRaWAN. By using a mobile device (iOS/Android) and the WILSEN app belonging to the sensor, the sensor can be comprehensively parameterized.

Browan Pico NEXT LTE Gateway pre-installed and configured

This Pico gateway is appropriate for small business or private area use cases such as parking, exhibition center, or campus, among others.

Choose a prestaging platform based on your needs:

We recommend our free cloud-based ThingPark Community platform for proof of concept and non-commercial use. If you select this option, your gateway(s) will be pre-configured and provisioned on the ThingPark Community platform by the ThingPark team. If you do not already have a ThingPark account, the team will create one for you using your registered email address.

We recommend using our ThingPark Enterprise SaaS production platform (TPE SaaS) or ThingPark Enterprise On-Premise platform for commercial operations (OCP). TPE SaaS is georedundant, fully managed 24 hours a day, and offers SLAs. “ThingPark Enterprise (TPE) OCP is a complete on-premise platform that is available in both standalone and high-availability deployment modes. You must have an active subscription to use TPE SaaS or TPE OCP. For commercial deployments, use these options and choose the appropriate region.

3x months subscription to the akenza.io platform, including up to 2 devices

The low-code akenza IoT platform allows you to build great IoT products and services with value. It connects, controls, and manages IoT devices all in one place.

Akenza “Data Flows” allow you to create your data path effortlessly from the device to the cloud. With the help of the device-type library, it ensures that the payload of the WILSEN.sonic.level sensor is decoded automatically; no programming is needed.

The built-in visualization enables you to visualize the data directly in the platform.

3x months subscription to ThingPark Enterprise SaaS service
ThingPark Enterprise is the leading LoRaWAN private networking solution that streamlines the digitalization of your business processes by connecting your most valuable assets with efficiency.

Deploying ThingPark Enterprise, you will benefit from a dependable, secure, and scalable private LoRaWAN connectivity infrastructure to enable various IoT use cases.

ThingPark Enterprise streamlines IoT network operations,  providing enterprises with a proficient UX to quickly build a multi-gateway LoRaWAN network and feed data to IoT applications. ThingPark Enterprise dashboards provide key operational insights & alarm management.

Your LPWAN gateways and devices are managed by a fully geo-redundant platform with 24/7 supervision.

About Pepperl + Fuchs 

Pepperl+Fuchs – Innovations for the Future of Automation        

As one of the leading companies in the automation industry, Pepperl+Fuchs is known as a global pioneer in its markets due to its development of groundbreaking technologies. For conventional and future applications, the Mannheim-based company offers a comprehensive portfolio for factory automation and the process industry. At the same time, Pepperl+Fuchs continues to drive forward-looking technologies, thus paving the way for its customers to meet the upcoming challenges of Industry 4.0.

Contact us here: https://akenza.io/contact

About akenza.io  

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it helps companies worldwide develop their own smart IoT solutions. Thanks to its self-service, low-code IoT platform, akenza reduces the technical complexity and effort companies have when creating their IoT solution. By making IoT accessible for organizations of all sizes, akenza is leading the evolution of the Internet of Things from a prototype stage toward broad market applicability.
The company has established long-term relationships with major clients such as Zurich Insurance, ISS, Georg Fischer, and various SMEs.
Akenza is one of the winners of the IoT Breakthrough Award 2021, in the category “Smart Construction Solution of the Year” for its collaboration with Georg Fischer.

Contact us here: https://akenza.io/contact

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About Actility 

 

Actility is the 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 enterprises trust ThingPark™ all over the world. Through its subsidiary Abeeway, Actility also provides  patented ultra-low power tracking solutionsThingPark Market offers the largest selection of interoperable IoT gateways, devices and applications to simplify and accelerate deployment of numerous use cases.   

Contact us here: https://www.actility.com/contact

Actility and TWTG Form Partnership to Strengthen Industrial LoRaWAN® Solutions

Actility and TWTG Form Partnership to Strengthen Industrial LoRaWAN® Solutions

Press Release – Rotterdam & Paris – 2nd February 2023.

Actility and TWTG are excited to announce they have formed a partnership, which will open opportunities for more and wider LoRaWAN® applications by offering partners and customers clear benefits. Wirelessly connecting devices to the internet and managing communication between end-node devices and network gateways, is increasingly in demand for industrial applications. Both partners are firm believers that this revolutionises how industrial sites implement their digitalisation strategy.

Actility Group is a leader in Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and geolocation services, demonstrating 10+ years of field experience in all regions of the world, with over 50 public networks and thousands of private networks. Dutch scale-up TWTG is at the vanguard of Industrial IoT solutions and has become market leader in LoRaWAN®-based sensors with IECEx / ATEX certification.

The partnership enables both companies to grow further in delivering dedicated I-IoT solutions to their customers. TWTG joins Actility’s Ignite Partner Program and ThingPark Community, whereas Actility increases its base in industrial solutions, notably in the Energy industry. A fine example of an industrial IoT use case, from TotalEnergies, has been presented at the LoRaWAN World Expo 2022. Customers implementing industrial solutions based on LoRaWAN® can now benefit from ready-to-use connectivity and easy integration.

Key in the partnership is Actility’s ThingPark® IoT platform, a multi-technology, open, hardware agnostic IoT platform allowing to deploy Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) worldwide. It offers a large LoRaWAN® product portfolio, which now also includes TWTG’s market leading sensors. ThingPark is open, hardware agnostic and supports all leading LoRaWAN® gateways, providing seamless administration interfaces and ensuring that partners can always use the hardware best suited for their use case, country of deployment, and budget. ThingPark implements open standard APIs and connectors to all leading IoT cloud platforms.

“The partnership enables us to increase the visibility of TWTG’s Industrial IoT solutions in the international IoT ecosystem. Actility’s pioneering role in specifying new LoRaWAN® features and the technical network know-how are held in high regard by us. We look forward to working with our new partners and delivering exceptional results for our customers. TWTG’s NEON Vibration Sensor and Temperature Transmitter are now fully integrated into the ThingPark platform, making it very easy for new customers to get started with vibration and temperature measurement, enabling them to improve onsite safety and efficiency.”

said John Tillema, CTO and co-founder of TWTG.

“TWTG is a strong and trusted brand in the industrial application of LoRaWAN® sensors, in particular in the Energy Industry. Our joint work will help us deliver compelling IoT solutions for the IoT world.”

Olivier Hersent, CEO at Actility Group

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One immediate advantage of the partnership for those interested in Industrial IoT solutions is an expert seminar in which both Actility and TWTG will participate:

On 13th March 2023, TWTG will partner with Actitlity to host the next TWTG Insight Event under the theme of Meet the LoRaWAN® Experts. The seminar, at TWTG’s HQ in Rotterdam, provides an opportunity to meet some of the industry’s leading experts within the current Industrial IoT space. Master classes will take place to address how to make implementing LoRaWAN® solutions easy and accessible. This event is aimed at individuals, who are involved in digitisation programmes and would like to hone their knowledge of LoRaWAN® in general.

More information on the Meet the LoRaWAN® Experts Seminar and how to apply can be found here. 

About TWTG 

TWTG is I-IoT. TWTG is the market leader in Industrialised (IECEx / ATEX) LoRaWAN® sensors. Launched in 2012, the company has become known for its green NEON LoRaWAN® products that solve industrial use cases. These wireless, battery-powered sensors revolutionise how industrial sites implement their digitalisation strategy.

Based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (HQ) and Houston, US – As specialists in building IECEx / ATEX certified solutions for complex markets such as the oil and gas, petrochemical and utility sectors, TWTG’s devices contribute to greater accountability and environmental responsibility, while making facilities safer and increasingly efficient.

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About Actility 

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.   

Contact us here: https://www.actility.com/contact 

Telekom Srbija Deploys a Nationwide Multi-Technology IoT Public Network

Telekom Srbija Deploys a Nationwide Multi-Technology IoT Public Network with Actility and Teri Engineering

Press Release – Paris, France – 25 January 2023

Telekom Srbija is working with its partners Teri Engineering and Actility to deploy a carrier-grade LoRaWAN® and NB-IoT networks within the country.  Telekom Srbija is the largest telecom operator in Serbia, which provides services in the sphere of mobile and fixed telephony, internet, multimedia and digital.

The LPWAN network provided by Telekom Srbija serves local industrial firms, energy providers, cities, municipalities, retail, and facility management, leveraging the vast ecosystem of LoraWAN and NB IoT devices. The network also targets smart city and industrial applications as well as the transmission of telemetry data from heat, water, gas and electricity meters.

Telekom Srbija has selected ThingPark Wireless, Actility’s technology agnostic LPWAN service management platform with unified management interfaces for Cellular IoT and LoRaWAN access networks to operate both the LoRaWAN and NB-IoT public networks in Serbia. By covering both unlicensed and licensed spectrum technologies, Telekom Srbija’s 360° IoT strategy is able to offer tailored connectivity for every use case, including the ones that require 10 to 15 years of operation on battery power, like water or gas metering.

ThingPark Wireless is the preferred IoT network platform for Service Providers rolling out LPWAN connectivity services. ThingPark Wireless powers the vast majority of large scale nationwide LoRaWAN network deployments worldwide. ThingPark Wireless is designed for security, carrier-grade availability and scalability. The platform is open, modular and supports the latest specifications of the LoRa Alliance, enabling seamless interconnection with other public and private networks.

ThingPark Wireless enables Telekom Srbija to accelerate the adoption of IoT solutions at scale across multiple industries, offering seamless user interfaces for all LPWAN technologies, licensed and unlicensed. The management platform also provides a multi-tenant LPWAN model, which is key to an operators’ go-to market in IoT as it allows to delegate some parts of the network to specific stakeholders.

The model is illustrated schematically in the picture below.

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I am very pleased that we can make another new technology – NB-IoT – available to our technological partners and business customers in Serbia. Telekom Srbija is constantly striving to provide its customers with the most state-of-the-art technological solutions that support the fourth industrial revolution, and this is one of the very important steps on that path. The manufacturers of smart devices and software solutions, in addition to the LoRa technology, will now have the opportunity, by using the mts IoT platform, to develop and test the business solutions based on NB-IoT technology that works over the 4G mobile network. In this way, conditions are created for the business customers in both the commercial and the public sectors – cities, municipalities, utility companies engaged in the supply of water, electricity, gas, thermal energy – to digitalize and automate their business processes and thus take a step further in providing sustainable business. I would like to thank our long-term partners, the companies Teri Engineering and Actility, for their continuous support on our path to innovation for a better future

Natali Delić, CSO, CDO (Chief Strategy and Digital Officer) at Telekom Srbija

Since its founding TERI Engineering has been cooperating with world leading companies, following the development of the most modern technologies and implementing the most optimal solutions in accordance with market needs. That’s how we recognized the need, together with Telekom Srbija, to implement IoT technology in Serbia and hence to contribute to development and implementation of inovative solutions in our environment. TERI Engineering has been taking part in Telekoma Srbija’s project in installation and integration of Actility LoRa network infrastructure, as well as installation and integration with NB-IoT radio acces network into a unified IoT network of Telekom Srbija. Proudly owning needed expertise for  implementation of IoT technologies (which assumes needed number of skilled people, technology, knowledge in technology, right to use Actility platoform in Cloud, knowledge and experience in implementation of LoRa GW and integration with Actility platforms), after successful implementation of LoRa infrastructure in 2018. for Telekom Serbia needs, and after that also NB-IoT technology, we continue with further activities in domain of IoT services and solutions, independently from transport tehnology.”

Tesa Fuks, CEO at TERI Engineering

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Telekom Srbija’s 360° IoT strategy which covers both licensed and unlicensed spectrum is clearly what the market expects. Companies can source their IoT connectivity from Telekom Srbija with the certainty to receive unbiased advice and effective support of the best technology for each use case, all of this with easy unified interfaces which make end to end integration very easy. We are impressed by the innovation spirit of Telekom Srbija, and we are sure that this new offering will greatly contribute to the acceleration of digitization of Serbia, a key enabler for the transition to a more sustainable economy.”

Olivier Hersent, CEO at Actility

About Telekom Srbija

Telekom Srbija is the leader on the telecommunications market in Serbia that brings a unique and integrated experience to its customers. Operating in Serbia under the mts, Supernova and m:SAT TV brands, the company provides services in the sphere of mobile and fixed telephony, Internet, multimedia and digital services. By the introduction of new services and the implementation of cutting-edge technologies, the company tries to enable global connectivity and enrich people’s lives by creating conditions for excellent communication. 

By continued investment in further development and modernization of the telecommunications infrastructure, network and services, the company can successfully respond to all the challenges, demands and expectations of the customers. Also, by creating new trends, the company encourages the development of new customer experiences. Telekom Srbija operates within Telekom Srbija Group which boasts a versatile portfolio of telecommunications services in several countries in Europe serving more than 11 million customers, while it is globally present through the sale of television services throughout the world, i.e. on five continents.

In the previous period, the company has been building its capacities in the production and distribution of exclusive TV series, feature films and sports content. Telekom Srbija has thus supplemented its portfolio of top services with the production of quality documentary and feature programmes. This content is broadcast on all Telekom’s multimedia platforms and on its partners’ streaming services and TV networks, and is relevant and attractive for further distribution worldwide.

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About Teri Engineering  

TERI Engineering is a group of five companies with its headquarters in Belgrade, with companies in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Slovenia. TERI was founded in 1990. TERI is distributor and system integrator of solutions and services in domain of industrial automation and ICT. Beside forementioned local presence, TERI also operates in other countries, independently or in cooperation with partners, depending on the project specificity.

TERI Engineering’s uniqueness, as experienced system integrator in domain of industrial automation and ICT, is a significant guarantor of IoT projects success.

About Actility 

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.  Contact us here: https://www.actility.com/contact

Actility, Milesight and Akenza Release 3 New IoT Solutions for Indoor Air Quality, Smart Office and Smart Building

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Actility, Milesight and Akenza Release 3 New IoT Solutions for Indoor Air Quality, Smart Office and Smart Building

Press Release – Paris, France- 21th December 2022

Do you  need to monitor and manage your indoor air quality, water leakage, and security? Are you looking for a solution that helps drive an unparalleled mix of device-collaborated flexibility, offering a real-time overview of your workplace? Or are you spending up to 90% of your time inside a working space, and looking to monitor the quality of the air you’re breathing?

Actility ,Milesight and Akenza offer you the most adapted solutions! Together, the partners developed three turnkey solutions to cover your needs. The evaluation starter kits provide you with the required hardware and software. Milesight Kits  provides products and services covered with comprehensive plans for your indoor air quality, workplace, and buildings.

Using Milesight All-star Devices & Turnkey Solutions for IAQ, CoWork, and Smart Building, Akenza’s platform and LoRaWAN® connectivity from Actility’s ThingPark Enterprise platform, you transform your working environment into a smart, interconnected, and comfortable space.

This statement focuses on one particular kit out of the tree ones that are presented afterwards. As this is still the intro of the article, I wouldn’t mention here one particular kit but stay general and focus on all 3 kits.

Monitored and Managed. Smart Building Gets Ready

Milesight Smart Building Kit provides products and services for your buildings ranging from hardware to software. Monitoring and management of indoor air quality, water leakage, and security are all based on IoT, which has enormous potential for visibility and efficiency using data-driven processes.

With the help of this kit, you can transform your workplace into a smart, interconnected, and comfortable environment. It indicates whether the indoor air quality is hazardous to one’s health, and when a present comfort indicator reaches a certain threshold, the HVAC system can be turned on or off automatically using a simple IoT Controller.

Furthermore, there is no longer any need to be concerned about unexpected water leakage, which could result in the loss of your valuable assets. Building management is now at your fingertips thanks to improved technology!

Improving Space Utilization and Workplace Efficiency

Milesight CoWork Kit provides products and services with a comprehensive solution to improve space utilization and workplace efficiency, from hardware to software. This CoWork Solution provides an unrivaled combination of device-collaborated flexibility and a real-time overview of your workplace. Milesight D2D, a technology developed independently by Milesight, is utilized in this CoWork Kit. It is a device-to-device communications link which does not use the LoRaWAN® network infrastructure but enables LoRa based devices to communicate directly with one another when they are in the same group. In this kit, on one hand, users can leverage the D2D to achieve fast control of the devices locally; on the other, this plug-and-play kit is simple to configure and operate via a LoRaWAN® wireless long-range network to see more details.   Setup takes only a few steps. Its compact and futuristic design is ideal for use in offices, classrooms, and other indoor settings.

Create Excellent IAQ PoC in ONE Kit

We spend up to 90% of our time indoors, but how often do we consider the quality of the air we breathe? Unlike outdoor air, indoor air is constantly recycled, trapping pollutants and allowing them to accumulate within these confined spaces.

Milesight IAQ Kit offers a variety of products and services to help make facilities safer and healthier. It allows for real-time monitoring of CO2 concentrations in order to create a safer and healthier indoor environment, protect employees, workers, or students, and meet air quality regulations.

About Milesight 

Milesight is a fast-growing tech company delivering smart IoT and video surveillance products with a focus on AI, 5G, Sensing and IoT technologies since 2011. With improved sensing capability and advanced IoT insights, we help customers worldwide optimize their business operation in a more efficient and sustainable way. In collaboration with a global network of distributors and system integrators, we are committed to building open ecosystems and accelerating IoT strategies to the next level.

Milesight IoT delivers products including IoT Gateway, IoT Sensors, IoT Controllers and 4G/5G Industrial Routers & Switches to offer complete device-to-cloud-solutions for massively growing markets of smart office, smart building and smart agriculture in an actionable and adapted way.  Contact us here: https://www.milesight-iot.com/contact-us/

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About akenza.io  

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it helps companies worldwide develop their own smart IoT solutions.
Thanks to its self-service, low-code IoT platform, akenza reduces the technical complexity and effort companies have when creating their IoT solution. By making IoT accessible for organizations of all sizes, akenza is leading the evolution of the Internet of Things from a prototype stage toward broad market applicability.
The company has established long-term relationships with major clients such as Zurich Insurance, ISS, Georg Fischer, and various SMEs.
Akenza is one of the winners of the IoT Breakthrough Award 2021, in the category “Smart Construction Solution of the Year” for its collaboration with Georg Fischer.

Contact us here: https://akenza.io/contact

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About Actility 

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 providespatented 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.   

Contact us here: https://www.actility.com/contact 

French Biggest Auto Club Roole Unveils the Innovation Behind Its GPS Antitheft Tracking Solution Wetrak

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French Biggest Auto Club Roole Unveils the Innovation Behind Its GPS Antitheft Tracking Solution Wetrak

Press Release – Paris, France – December 7th, 2022 

Roole, a major French supplemental auto insurance company and the country’s leading car club, has taken its anti-theft service to a whole new level, offering its customers a next-generation geolocation solution coupled with a mobile app, called Wetrak, to find lost or stolen cars, thereby reducing insurance costs. The solution is based on advanced location devices provided by Abeeway, a subsidiary of Actility specializing in low-power indoor and outdoor fused geolocation.   

With an estimated 50% share of the French market with over one million active policyholders, Roole is thinking big. Leveraging IoT technologies such as LoRaWAN® connectivity and Abeeway’s geolocation expertise, the company is poised to transform the market by offering an unparalleled quality of service, distributed through car dealerships in France, and offering a game-changing feature of non-sensitivity to today’s jammers, unlike ordinary cellular GPS devices. 

With a successful first phase of 4,000 devices deployed, and the service becoming popular, the company is launching a massive consumer car tracking offering with over 20,000 devices as a second phase. 

Outsmarting car thieves’ jamming practices thanks to IoT 

Traditional GPS trackers for vehicles rely on cellular networks (GSM) to transmit their signals. They used to be the gold standard in car theft protection. But today, it has become surprisingly easy for thieves to jam or mask their signals so that the police can’t find them.   

A GPS jammer is a generally small, inexpensive, self-contained transmitter device capable of sending radio signals within a short radius using various frequency bands (2G, 3G, 4G, LTE, Lojack, GPS, WiFi and BLE), rendering it unable to determine its position due to interference and transmit data using these common networks.  Less savvy thieves know they can interrupt tracking if they hide a stolen car in an underground garage or steel shipping container. They can also use a portable digital radio frequency (RF) detector to find a tracking device in the vehicle and remove it completely. 

So, to overcome this problem, Abeeway GPS trackers send very short, low-power radio signals via the LoRaWAN network. Thieves cannot use jamming devices to disable LoRaWAN transmissions, and they will not be able to find Abeeway devices using an RF detector. 

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Coupling unrivaled network technology with a versatile tracking solution  

LoRaWAN® network technology is a widely used wireless protocol that leverages the unlicensed radio spectrum and enables battery-powered sensors to communicate with IoT applications via ultra-low data rate and long range, consuming very little power and allowing batteries to run longer. Because the LoRa radio signal is emitted over a wide spectral range, it greatly reduces the risk of interference from unwanted signals.   

Most importantly, LoRa transmissions can pass through glass, metal, and concrete, allowing data to be sent not only outdoors, but also deep indoors and underground, which is a definite advantage for an anti-theft solution.   

For Wetrak service in France, Roole is using the nationwide public LoRaWAN network provided by Orange, and powered by Actility’s ThingPark Wireless platform.  

Benefiting from LoRaWAN features, Abeeway’s long-life wireless devices allow continuous use for months and years: 2 years with 2 positions per day. The devices work both indoors and outdoors thanks to their multi-technology geolocation system, integrating regular GPS, Abeeway’s patented Low-power GPS, Wi-Fi Sniffing, Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth LE Beaconing for accurate indoor tracking.  

Abeeway devices combine state-of-the-art location technologies, robust hardware, meticulous selection of high-performance low-power chipsets and uncompromising software optimization. This allows for flexible behavior, highly responsive to changing needs, and ensures the location of goods and people in a variety of coverage scenarios.     

Finally, the service integrates the white-labeled Abeeway Mobile App. This user-friendly mobile app allows visualization of the current locations of multiple devices on a map, of the location history of a device on a map, but also geofencing & alarms (SOS, Motion, Leaving/entering geofenced zones), and even location sharing with other users. 

Finally, the service integrates the Abeeway mobile application in white label. This user-friendly application allows users to view the current location of multiple devices on a map, the history of a device’s location, but also geofencing and alarms (SOS, movement, exit/entry of geofenced areas), and even sharing the location with other users. 

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We chose Abeeway as a partner for our new car theft protection offer because of their unrivalled expertise in LoRaWAN-based geolocation technologies. Being a European partner was also a determining factor in order to guarantee a strong proximity in our exchanges.

Thomas Fournier, CEO at Roole

“Roole’s Wetrak is the first to market ultra low-power, multi-technology recovery system leveraging the stealth and jamming resistance properties of LoRaWAN. Abeeway and Actility are proud to be the trusted partner of Roole for this innovation, and we are impressed by the massive market success of this new offering. We are even more proud to have already enabled many recoveries of stolen vehicles!”

Olivier Hersent, CEO at Actility and Abeeway

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Watch the solution’s testimonial video:   

About Roole: 

Roole is a French automobile club whose objective is to make the daily life of motorists “simpler, more economical and supportive”. It offers insurance services and protection against vehicle theft. The Wetrack offer marketed by Roole includes a geolocation box, a mobile application to locate the vehicle in real time and a 24/7 assistance platform that enables contact with the police in the event of theft.

https://www.roole.fr/

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About Abeeway:  

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™ 

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About Actility 

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 providespatented 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.   

Contact us here: https://www.actility.com/contact 

Actility & Cloud Studio Integrate For Fast No Code IoT Applications Deployment

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Actility & Cloud Studio Integrate For Fast No Code IoT Applications Deployment

Press Release – Paris, France & Madrid, Spain – 25 November 2022

Actility and Cloud Studio announce the integration of ThingPark® Enterprise and Gear Studio platform, combining innovative technologies to accelerate IoT adoption. Actility and Cloud Studio are helping the IoT ecosystem to grow through the creation of the best open platform. Cloud Studio became an Actility Solution Partner by joining ThingPark Community.

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On the one hand, Actility is a leading provider of IoT that enables interoperability and connectivity for different industries. Its platform, Thingpark, offers a wide variety of solutions—including hardware, and services—that are certified and compatible with LoRaWAN standards, making it easy to integrate into Cloud Studio’s application platform.

Actility’s ThingPark Enterprise platform, accessible for free through ThingPark Community, provides a dependable LoRaWAN connectivity infrastructure to efficiently connect your Low-power IoT devices. It streamlines IoT network operations, providing enterprises with a proficient UX to easily build a multi-gateway LoRaWAN network and feed data to IoT applications.

On the other hand, Cloud Studio is an application platform provider offering a customizable,  low-code, white-labeled, and completely hardware-agnostic cloud solution. It is the perfect tool for creating real-time monitoring and control dashboards, digital twins, condition-based monitoring, and more. All these functionalities and characteristics make it possible to scale projects with flexibility, allowing clients to minimize implementation costs and tailor their project plans to fit their unique business needs.

This integration will enable customers to create their own IoT solutions with the freedom to use any hardware available on the marketplace, connect it to Cloud Studio’s platform, and build their own end-to-end IoT solution without having to worry about compatibility issues.

In other words, it will encourage the creation of scalable and vertical solutions for different use cases such as mining, oil and gas, renewable energies, smart cities, or workspaces 4.0, and enables companies that are starting their IoT journey to experience proof of value quickly and with minimum investment.

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“Our partnership with Cloud Studio creates a valuable connection for the whole IoT ecosystem, as businesses and developers are now able to save significant amount of money and time on developing their IoT projects and then scaling them up.”

Joaquín Cervera, CEO at Cloud Studio

“Our partnership with Cloud Studio creates a valuable connection for the whole IoT ecosystem, as businesses and developers are now able to save significant amount of money and time on developing their IoT projects and then scaling them up.  ”

Nicolas Jordan, COO at Actility and Abeeway

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Advantech and Actility launch a new AI-based Intelligent Predictive Maintenance IoT Solution for Rotating Machinery

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Advantech and Actility launch a new AI-based Intelligent Predictive Maintenance IoT Solution for Rotating Machinery

Press Release – Paris, France – 16 November 2022

Advantech and Actility announce the launch of a new integrated AI-based solution, supporting the machine operation team in realizing machine prognostics and health management. It allows to monitor multi machines’ status in one stop thanks to the real-time and next seven days’ machine healthy index, including ISO 10816 and degradation level.

The new solution is based on the Advantech WISE-2410 vibration sensor, the high-performance WISE-6610 LoRaWAN® gateway, Actility’s ThingPark Enterprise IoT network management platform and the advanced Advantech’ iMachine/PHM application, and is now available under Trial Kit form on Actility’s IoT marketplace:  ThingPark Market.

The challenges of performing machines health checks 

Maintenance companies have been experiencing increased difficulties in fulfilling their role in recent years. Due to the pandemic, they have been no longer able to travel to customer facilities to perform asset health analysis, and service providers are unable to realize their services and offers.  May are still battling is an exponential slowdown due to the global lockdown.

Many manufacturers who rely on these services to maintain the health of process critical assets are helpless and thus face a high of costly downtime during these unprecedented times.

Implementing efficient maintenance processes is crucial to operators of industrial facilities, but it’s not an easy task. One of their greatest wishes is to avoid lengthy processes of data connection, pre-processing, model development and inference engine development.  

In traditional method, still used by most factory operators, the on-site inspection is done manually, regularly but without stable inspection quality, and only passively reacting and informing the maintenance crew when the problem occurs.

Proactively Keeping Facilities at Productive Status Thanks to IoT  

Actility & Advantech found a perfect partnership to join their forces and offer a solution to solve those issues.

Thanks to a great combination of hardware and software expertise, we designed a winning solution to keep our engines healthy and monitor them to prevent any possible mishap: the Predictive Maintenance Solution for Rotating Machinery Solution. By installing LoRaWAN-connected vibration sensors and easy implementation of the infrastructure, allows you to analyze data from sensors measuring vibrations frequencies of machines and equipment in order to detect anomalous behavior, therefore enabling industrial end customers to decrease machines shutdowns and work accidents while increasing performance and safety.

Users get a very precise machine status prediction, and prediction model retraining that refines the model while repositioning the sensor or refining the model performance.

Moreover, the most important feature designed ad hoc for the new solution is that it now acts proactively based on the future state of the machine, instead of carrying out routine inspections, preventing machine faults in advance. With the finetuned pre-trained model, users can expect to gain the inference result within two weeks of sensor installation.

Using this solution means joining the Industrial Revolution 4.0, and therefore ensuring longer lifespan of equipment, lower spare parts inventory, and having more cost-effective than run-to-failure or planned maintenance.

Applying the solution in an infinite number of use cases  

Thanks to Predictive Maintenance Solution it was possible to overview all types of machines in one-stop, in real-time getting also the machine’s historical and future status. It can be used on petrochemical plants, PCB plants, Semiconductor Manufacturing Plants, and so much more.

One of the most successful use cases is the rotating manufacturing machinery management in steel plants. In this specific industry, the failure of the manufacturing machine will seriously affect the product line, that is the reason why it is extremely important to prevent unexpected breakdown.

How Advantech – Predictive Maintenance Solution Works?  

  • Pretrained model implementation – The model is trained on a large benchmark dataset to solve a problem like the one that the customer wants to solve, so thanks to that, our solution, can automatically analyze the data preprocessing, feature value selection, and deep learning model processes.

  • Degrading level – The degrading level indicates the machine’s rotating signal status compared to a healthy device. To establish an efficient maintenance strategy, the operators could set the index threshold based on the experts’ experience.

  • ISO 10816 – gives general guidelines for the evaluation of machine vibration by measurements on non-rotating parts. This part of ISO 10816, however, establishes special procedures and guidelines for the measurement and classification of mechanical vibration of reciprocating compressors. Using multi-indexes, you can monitor your machine and keep an eye on your production line.

To learn more about the differences between an Open Source LNS and professionally supported LNS solutions, watch our webinar “Key Infrastructure and LoRaWAN Network Server features for industrial IoT deployments”.

The pre-packed solution Trial Kit  

What you will find in the kit:

Advantech: WISE-2410

The WISE-2410 device follows ISO 10816, which provides guidelines for the evaluation of machine vibration by measurements on non-rotating parts. WISE-2410 balances the wireless bandwidth between it and the gateway, so it also mitigates the data transmission fail rates between edge devices and gateways.

  • Interoperability – Pre-integrated with Actility Application dashboard for simple decoding and encoding services.
  • Multimarket senor type of device provides a robust and resilient solution to support different environments.

Advantech: WISE-6610

The WISE-6610 is a high-performance LoRaWAN® gateway that offers reliable connectivity for industrial environments. It supports the LoRaWAN® protocol for building LoRaWAN® private and public networks, as well as various protocols including MQTT. The hardware and software flexibility of the WISE-6610 provides rich features for edge intelligence systems, and its support for VPN tunneling with various protocols ensures safe communications.

ThingPark Enterprise – Low-Power Wide-Area Networks for the Internet of Things Leader

ThingPark Enterprise is the leading LoRaWAN® private networking solution that streamlines the digitalization of your business processes by connecting your most valuable assets with efficiency. Deploying ThingPark Enterprise, you will benefit from a dependable, secure, and scalable private LoRaWAN® connectivity infrastructure to enable a wide variety of IoT use cases. ThingPark Enterprise streamlines IoT network operations, providing enterprises with a proficient UX to easily build a multi-gateway LoRaWAN® network and feed data to IoT applications. ThingPark Enterprise dashboards provide key operational insights & alarm management. Your LPWAN gateways and devices are managed by a fully geo-redundant platform with 24/7 supervision.

Advantech – iMachine/PHM

iMachine/PHM is your best smart machine management booster.

We assist the maintenance crew in handling historical, real-time, and future machine data. With the predictive maintenance solution, you can smartly arrange the human power and resources, realizing smart machine management.

Advantech and Actility conducted a Joint Webinar “Intelligent Motor Predictive Health Monitoring & Management” where experts from both companies explained the solution benefits and real-life implementation in detail. We are invited you to watch it to get the full information!

About Advantech   

Advantech’s corporate vision is to enable an intelligent planet. The company is a global leader in the fields of IoT intelligent systems and embedded platforms. To embrace the trends of IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence, Advantech promotes IoT hardware and software solutions with the Edge Intelligence WISE-PaaS core to assist business partners and clients in connecting their industrial chains. Advantech is also working with business partners to co-create business ecosystems that accelerate the goal of industrial intelligence. (www.advantech.com)

About Actility   

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 providespatented 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.  

Contact us here: https://www.actility.com/contact

Novalink and Abeeway Join Forces to Provide IoT Alert Systems for Patients in Nursing Homes and Hospitals

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Novalink and Abeeway Join Forces to Provide IoT Alert Systems for Patients in Nursing Homes and Hospitals

Press Release – Paris, France & Frauenfeld, Switzerland – Tuesday 15th November 2022 

Novalink, a Swiss leader in the field of innovative alarm solutions since 1996, has become an Abeeway and Actility Solution Partner, in order to enable new tracking solutions in the healthcare sector.

Novalink boasts more than 7,000 systems successfully implemented worldwide.  Their product called novaalert alarm software is the ideal alerting – evacuation – notification solution in professional environments. It includes the fields of industry and production, clinics and hospitals, and local authorities.

In this context, the novaalert alarm software offers three decisive advantages:

  • Manufacturer freedom” thanks to certification covering all renowned telephony/infrastructure systems

  • Technology freedom” thanks to the integration of both traditional and state-of-the-art interfaces/IT systems

  • Project freedom” thanks to its suitability for both large-scale and cost-effective small-scale projects
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Integrating low-power IoT tracking in the alert system for people needing assistance  

Novalink found an ideal partner in Abeeway, so that novaalert could enable a variety of solutions in the healthcare sector, more specifically for psychiatric hospitals, retirement homes and nursing homes for dementia patients.

People suffering from dementia have a reduced ability to remember, think or make decisions that interferes with the performance of daily activities, that’s why, thanks to the combination between novaalert mobileAPP and Abeeway Micro Trackers missing people, affected by the mentioned disease, can be found easily and quickly.

The Abeeway Micro Tracker is a multi-mode tracker with embedded sensors for accurate outdoor and indoor geolocation. With its small size and long battery life up to a year on a single charge, the Abeeway Micro Tracker enables people to be located indoors via Bluetooth Beacons and outdoors via GPS, and it uses LoRaWAN connectivity. This widely used wireless protocol allows battery-powered sensors to communicate with IoT applications via a long-range, ultra-low data rate connection, resulting in longer battery life.

Another important functionality is the versatility of the research of the missing person that can be automatic or manual.  Automated detection is possible via a combination of GPS Geofence and iBeacon technology, instead, manual searches can also be triggered directly in the novaalert mobileAPP.

Using the Micro Tracker button, a person seeking assistance can trigger an alarm independently thanks to novaalert mobileAPP, the nursing staff receives the alarm message including the tracker’s exact location (indoors and outdoors) and can quickly come to the aid of the person in distress.

This is the reason why novalink chose Abeeway and LoRaWAN® as the necessary technologies for this solution. The safety of people must be considered to ensure the correct performance of the system. Abeeway is a market leader in providing only certified products and providing support when needed, ensuring reliability. LoRaWAN®, on the other hand, allows to locate people and devices both indoors and outdoors and is cheap and reliable.

About Novalink   

The owner-managed company novalink, based in Frauenfeld (Switzerland), has been a leader in the field of innovative alarm solutions since 1996. With more than 7,000 systems successfully implemented worldwide. novaalert alarm software is the ideal alerting – evacuation – notification solution in professional environments. This includes the fields of industry and production, clinics and hospitals, and local authorities. As a Swiss manufacturer, novalink places enormous value on competent service – our 42-person team provides tailored support for our partners and customers in English, German and French. 

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About Actility   

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 providespatented 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.  

Contact us here: https://www.actility.com/contact

About Abeeway   

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™

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Get Free Full-featured Industrial LoRaWAN Network Server and Test Tools on ThingPark Community

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Get Free Full-featured Industrial LoRaWAN Network Server and Test Tools on ThingPark Community

Press Release – Paris, France – October 20th, 2022

ThingPark Community, Actility’s portal providing its members with free-of charge access to the best LPWAN network management platform in the world – Actility’s ThingPark – for their non-profit use, is allowing anyone to build a global, long-range and low-power data network in an easy, cost-effective way.

But from now on, it brings members a substantial perk: connecting as many gateways as you need, provided free of charge to anyone.

Experiment LoRaWAN, test your solutions and get connected to the community 

First providing guidance on how to set up your first IoT LoRaWAN use case to show this powerful technology in action, the set-up comes with step-by-step instructions on how to use it, explaining you how to add devices, gateways, and create applications. It comes along with free online support, with documented hands-on labs.  

The platform is pre-connected to all leading IoT Clouds such as Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Central, AWS IoT, Cumulocity, ThingWorx, SAP, Salesforce, IoThink, WMW, HERE Technologies, and many others.  

Introducing Actility public forums  

Community Support forum
In support’s department continuous strive for wider support availability and increased customer satisfaction, we are bringing something new to our free Community platform. We are glad to announce the launch of our new Community Support Forum.

With time we expect that Community users will be able to find all the required information there instantly. Current ticket-based support is now being phased out and soon “Contact us” button in the Community portal UI will be replaced as well.

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For broader questions and discussion that go beyond the Community platform we are glad to introduce our “thingpark” tag on Stackexchange.  Find us at https://iot.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/thingpark where you can participate and get informed on various technical points like how the end-to-end security is ensured on ThingPark, the role of LoRaWAN backhaul overheads over satellite or cellular, the functioning of over-the-air-updates and activation of devices, network roaming et much more.

Take advantage of our free validation tools!   

Moreover, for those building IoT devices and apps, interoperability is a key success factor. That is why, from now on, we made the ThingPark Interop Engine accessible for free with your ThingPark Community account.  With this testing tool, device manufacturers can easily validate interoperability and proper functioning of their devices with the LoRaWAN MAC connectivity layer.

This will allow you to get the ThingPark Connected label, to ensure easy adoption and reduce time to market, and increase your visibility among our community and ThingPark users across the world.

Get your hands on a Professional LNS with all its advantages without compromising  

Whoever you are – a hardware or software developer, a system integrator, a vendor, a distributor, a consultant, or an academic – ThingPark Community is here to introduce you to LoRaWAN® and provide you with valuable online resources. With free access to ThingPark’s services, you will learn and experience LoRaWAN® from basic to advanced levels and develop your complete solution in no time!

Unlike other products and Open-Source solutions on the market, Actility provides you with an integrated suite of products and services to start working on the Internet of Things and building end-to-end solutions for yourself or for your customers, by integrating our LoRaWAN Network Server, hardware & support, and a whole set of open tools to build your next IoT application at low cost, making it ready to scale.

Actility provides the connectivity layer, powered by its Enterprise-grade LoRaWAN network server: ThingPark Enterprise. ThingPark Enterprise is the leading LoRaWAN private networking solution, managing over 35,000 commercial gateways worldwide. It streamlines your digital transformation, eliminating wiring for most sensors, enabling indoor/outdoor tracking and many other use cases.

This is why with a ThingPark Community account, you can transition to Discovery+ offer where you can get advanced support from Actility experts. And then, when you’ll need to scale up your project with a high Quality of Service, you’ll be able to seamlessly transition to ThingPark Enterprise paid offers.

All components of the network, including sensors, gateways and data routing are managed from a unique and easy-to-use user interface. The ThingPark Enterprise allows full flexibility for the choice of gateways or devices. It is also flexible, scalable and secure, allowing you to start with a Proof-of-concept and scale to full deployments. The platform is monitored 24/7 and all upgrades are fully managed by Actility without any disruption of service. 

To learn more about the differences between an Open Source LNS and professionally supported LNS solutions, watch our webinar “Key Infrastructure and LoRaWAN Network Server features for industrial IoT deployments”.

Free connectivity and crowd-sourced networking  

Radio coverage provided by a member of the ThingPark Community is also shared with the other members. ThingPark Community licenses form a global collaborative network, any device connected to any Community network may roam to any other one, if your device is under the coverage of any member, it can already reach the network server and your application even if you don’t have your own gateway anywhere near that device.

ThingPark Community portal provides free connectivity for the IoT Starter Kits, available in ThingPark Market. It also puts in light the role of ThingPark Exchange, which is interconnecting our enterprise networks and our community platform with Semtech Join Server.

Actility continues its effort to accelerate adoption of the industrial IoT by providing customers with a catalog of turnkey vertical IoT solutions they can quickly deploy on their sites to address concrete business problems.  We invite you to check out us dedicated blog in order to get detailed insights about the various IoT solutions and their deployments.

Building IoT Solutions made easy, from integration to doing business together: Join the Actility’s Ignite Partner Program!

Bringing such end-to-end IoT solutions to the market is critical for the common success of Actility and its partners: that is why Actility launched the Actility Ignite Partner Program, addressing our huge and growing partner ecosystem. This program aims at identifying, qualifying and selling relevant IoT solutions on major IoT verticals in order to accelerate industrial IoT adoption. 

With ThingPark Community,  Actility provides them with the required tools and resources to complete the integration of their product and services with ThingPark, with creation of decoders and application connections.  Get onboard as a solution partner and join our community of devices manufacturers and applications providers which are already ThingPark Connected. ThingPark platform provides drivers capable of decoding uplinks for many popular device brands and comes with pre-integrated connectors for popular IoT cloud platforms, such as AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure IoT and IoT Central, IBM Watson, ThingWorx.

What our Partners say about ThingPark Community: 

“We are using TP Community extensively as part of our R&D work on LPWAN convergence. We love the way it exposes complex LoRaWAN features with a easy to use UI, and the openness to the ecosystem with comprehensive set of pre-integrated devices & gateways.

said Philippe Chiu, co-CEO of Unabiz.

“Advantech is working alongside Actility on various IoT projects, and we are using ThingPark Community as a handy platform to test devices and LoRaWAN base stations. We particularly appreciate the availability of built-in application connectors and decoder capabilities with integrated Advantech Wise portfolio, with extensive gateway support including base stations. ThingPark Community provides the ability to install on premises with additional industry standard connections, like OPC UA & Modbus. Moreover, Actility’s worldwide presence and local support is key to scalable solutions and our successful long-term partnership.”

says ChingPo Lin, AVP at Advantech.

“At University Savoie Mont Blanc, we are deepening our understanding of LoRaWAN technical features and their usage, and Actility’s ThingPark Community has been very helpful in for testing and setting up demos. For instance, our task force has released a simple Clock Synchronization server with its documentation to let you try this nice LoRaWAN feature for free, with any device.  An efficient demo has been released with a STM32WL end-device and ThingPark Community LoRaWAN Network Server, with more of new features to come soon

says Sylvain Montagny, Professor at University Savoie Mont Blanc, Master in Embedded Systems Electronics.

About Actility   

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 providespatented 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.  

Contact us here: https://www.actility.com/contact

Zenner, Datacake and Actility release a new IoT Indoor Air Quality solution

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Zenner, Datacake and Actility release a new IoT Indoor Air Quality solution for CO2 monitoring

Press Release – Paris, France – October 12, 2022

Actility, in joint work with Zenner, a leading manufacturer of measuring devices and sensors from Germany and DataCake, a leading low-code IoT platform provider, now offer a new IOT Indoor Air Quality Solution focused on monitoring the environmental characteristics inside buildings that may affect human health, comfort, or work performance sustained.

The solution is using LoRaWAN® connectivity and includes CO2 monitoring sensor from Zenner, LoRaWAN Network Server and Management platform from Actility – ThingPark Enterpise, and the application from Datacake. The solution is extremely simple to set up and allows monitoring in real-time the concentration of CO2 to create a safer and healthier indoor ambient condition, protect employees, workers or students, and meet air quality regulations levels. It can be used in any indoor space, including classrooms, offices, meeting rooms, shops, industrial facilities, and public buildings, among others.  

This IOT Indoor Air Quality Solution is now available on ThingPark Market, Actility’s IoT solutions marketplace!

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The sensor reliably records and transmits CO2 values

Optimization of air quality is crucial for healthy and productive working conditions

Covid-19 has dramatically changed our lives, we have changed our lifestyles, spending more time in our homes being forced to cope with medical emergencies, therefore it has become increasingly important to monitor Indoor Air Quality (IAQ).

The concentration of CO2 is an important indicator of air quality. The higher the CO2 value in a building, the less comfortable it is for the people who live there. CO2 concentrations rise rapidly in poorly ventilated rooms.

The EU Royal Decree of 2 May 2019 well-being code at work on indoor air quality establishes that the employer must take the necessary technical and/or organizational measures to ensure that CO2 concentrations in the workplace are less than 900 ppm.

According to scientific research, improving IAQ is as effective as vaccinating 50-60% of the population in reducing aerosol transmission. Carbon dioxide, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), particulate matter (PM), humidity, and temperature monitoring necessitate the installation of sensors in facilities that do not typically rely on pre-existing wiring for this purpose. These installations are facilitated by wireless IoT networks such as LoRaWAN. It is the ideal technology network to meet these requirements.

LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) is an open standard connectivity technology that has proven to be a market leader for smart applications, delivering solutions that are easy to scale, optimize operational costs, and reduce utility waste. LoRaWAN enables the use of its extremely long-range and low-power capabilities to cover thousands of kilometers at a low cost, particularly in remote and difficult-to-reach areas, and to install devices that provide data in real time while lasting for years on a single battery charge.

Key Solution Features:

  • Sensor design: clean and modern design, which makes it discrete in both business and home environments.
  • Ease of use: A wireless and battery-based sensor provides the conditions for its users to perform the tasks safely, effectively, and efficiently while enjoying the experience.
  • Adaptability: Scalable and tailor-made solution: An adapted kit to any indoor industrial environment such as warehouses storage, retail, offices, and much more.
  • Low-power and low-cost: LoRaWAN long-range technology allows easy installation and the ability to monitor sensors in a very large area with low infrastructure cost.

Data-driven management: Efficiency gain: stand at the threshold of our shared indoor spaces, and answer new questions raised: “What is the air quality?” or “Do we need to open a window?”

What you will find in the kit:

Zenner CO2 sensor

Zenner CO2 Indicator L868 ID A Sensor

A sophisticated designed Zenner Sensor

A compact indoor EU868 LoRaWAN radio sensor for measuring the CO2 content of indoor air. With the integrated display and the color-changing LED display, the sensor always provides real-time information about the current CO2 value, the battery level, and the status of the connection.

An intuitive and // application by Datacake

Datacake is a multi-purpose, low-code IoT platform that requires no programming skills and minimal time to create custom IoT applications that can be brought into a white-label IoT solution at the push of a button. With the Datacake platform, you can realize your Industrial IoT use cases, such as condition monitoring, data logging, real-time dashboards, and data analytics.

It provides you with templates for the most popular devices.

  • Device Templates
  • Integrations for LoRaWAN Network Server
  • Payload Decoders and Downlinks

With the trial kit, you will get a 3 x Months subscription to Datacake application up to 2 devices.

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IoT Connectivity Platform by Actility

Dependable connectivity infrastructure with a proficient UX to easily build a LoRaWAN network, Cloud-based or On Premises, using pre-integrated high-end Base Stations & an advanced Actility Network Server with dashboards providing key operational insights on the network & alarm management.

With the Trial Kit, you will get 3 x Months subscription to ThingPark Enterprise SaaS service.

Browan gateway

1 x Browan Pico NEXT LTE Gateway (included) pre-installed and configured
Or OPTION: 1 x Milesight UG65 Semi-Industrial LoRaWAN® Gateway

The Pico Next Gateway is a LoRa gateway with GPS, using numerous ways of connection: ethernet, LTE, and Wi-Fi. Depending upon the SKU, some functions might not be available. Pico Next is specifically designed for wide-area IoT applications. Applications include, but are not limited to, home security, automatic meter reading, monitoring fault-indicators, and monitoring streetlights. This gateway is very suitable for small businesses or restricted area uses like parking lots, exhibition centers, and campuses.

Milesight gateway

UG65 is a robust 8-channel indoor LoRaWAN gateway. Adopting SX1302 LoRa chip and high-performancequad-coreCPU, UG65 supports connection with more than 2000nodes.UG65 has line of sight up to 15 km and can cover about 2kminurbanized environment, which is ideally suited tosmart office, smart building and many other indoor

About Zenner

ZENNER International GmbH & Co. KG, with headquarters in Saarbrücken, develops, produces and sells measurement technology for the global market. The product line includes apartment, household and bulk water meters and modern system technology. Zenner customers primarily include power suppliers, public utilities and Smart Cities but also industrial companies, wholesalers and measurement service providers. Since 2016, as part of the digitization strategy, ZENNER has relied on innovative system solutions based on Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. ZENNER offers the complete value chain from project development to measurement data recording and processing up to applications for the end user and IoT network operation. ZENNER has production facilities in Europe, Asia and the USA and is globally present with 20 local sites. Founded in 1903, the company has been a member of the family-managed corporate group Minol-ZENNER since 2005. Worldwide around 4200 employees work for Minol-ZENNER-Group.

More information: www.zenner.com

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About Datacake

Datacake is a versatile low-code IoT platform that requires no programming skills and minimal time to create custom IoT applications that can be transformed into a white-label IoT solution at the touch of a button. Thanks to its multi-network architecture, Datacake supports the connection of a wide range of connectivity options, including LoRaWAN, which has been made particularly easy in terms of initial device onboarding. Here, Datacake has a whole range of different sensors, which have a start template out of the box and thus make it very easy for the user to connect the first devices to the platform.

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About Actility   

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 providespatented 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.  

Contact us here: https://www.actility.com/contact

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Qubitro and Actility integrate platforms for easier IoT projects deployment

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Qubitro and Actility integrate platforms for easier IoT projects deployment

Press Release – Paris, France – October 6th 2022

Qubitro, a United States-based global company providing an agnostic SaaS Device Data Platform for developers and businesses to collect IoT device data from various networks, and to design IoT projects without infrastructure set-up or coding, has now become an Actility Solution Partner by joining ThingPark Community and integrating their platform with Actility’s ThingPark.

Currently, Qubitro has active customers in 6 Continents and more than 40 Countries. Qubitro services are now also exposed on ThingPark market.

Reinventing the way to develop IoT projects

Qubitro is a new-age device data platform that collects device data from multiple networks, including LoRaWAN network providers, MQTT connectivity, satellite network operators, and many others. To offer its customers a complete toolkit, including managed storage, APIs, SDKs, and no-code customizable dashboards to activate device data in their applications and IoT adoption strategy. Qubitro services include real-time monitoring, data storage, and rule sets on a single platform for enabling users to trigger their own, 3rd party services or other devices. In addition, users can develop their mobile or web applications and provide data flow to analytics platforms for special scenarios.

Actility’s ThingPark Enterprise platform, accessible for free through ThingPark Community, provides a dependable LoRaWAN connectivity infrastructure to efficiently connect your Low-power IoT devices. It streamlines IoT network operations, providing enterprises with a proficient UX to easily build a multi-gateway LoRaWAN network and feed data to IoT applications.

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Qubitro users can connect devices worldwide with minimum data latency, while Actility’s customers can benefit from bulk device deployments from Actility’s LoRaWAN ThingPark connectivity to the Qubitro platform with no code experience, allowing them to enjoy the unique features of Qubitro’s services.

This partnership allows both companies to combine two excellent and complementary IoT solutions, and to serve customers better by reducing the go-to-market time, decreasing development costs for IT system integrators and IoT-adopting enterprise customers.

Qubitro has already partnered with other LoRaWAN network and hardware providers in the past to resulting in successful use cases deployments such as for smart indoor air quality monitoring using Milsight compact indoor ambiance monitoring devices, or using, MClimate’s plug-and-play LoRaWAN sensors for Smart Buildings.

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“Qubitro will provide Actility’s customers with a unique experience in their IoT adventure. In addition, partnering with Actility will change how the market perceives the technical difficulties and hard-to-estimate cost structure for scaling IoT applications.”

Bayça Bademli, Business Development Manager at Qubitro

“Our partnership with Qubitro creates a valuable connection for the whole IoT ecosystem, as businesses and developers are now able to save significant amount of money and time on developing their IoT projects and then scaling them up.  ”

Nicolas Jordan, COO at Actility and Abeeway

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About Qubitro

Qubitro is a United States based company which collects device data from multiple networks and provides a complete toolkit to activate in customers applications. Qubitro operates in over 40 countries, enabling data-driven decision making and modern application development for enterprises, integrators, and startups, converting data into business opportunities.

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About Actility   

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 providespatented 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.  

Contact us here: https://www.actility.com/contact

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