Suez optimizes waste management in the Netherlands We need partners to innovate with. One of them is KPN that supports us in using the LoRa network. Raymond de Schrevel, Business Development Manager 57 millionPeople benefit from the Group’s waste collection services 130 Operating storage centrers worldwide 42 million metric tonnes treatedWaste
SmartLog uses LoRa to make Dutch canals smart Visualizing the sensor data from the canal results in extremely valuable insights for Rijkswaterstaat. Together with KPN and Actility, Smartlog is proud to help them gain insight in this important sensor data Joris Van der Elst , Business Developer at SmartLog End
Fuel tank monitoring in Belgium made easy by FULLUP There is a gap between heating oil users and their suppliers. FULLUP aims to fill that gap. We are using new technology to make fuel tanks smart. Catherine de Viron, Managing Partner End customer FULLUP CUSTOMER CHALLENGE Lack of data and
Quality Guard enables cold chain traceability in Belgian food industry What is great about the solution, is that everyone wins. Wim Van Gierdegom, General Manager 4 000 sensorsDeployments in Belgium 800 customersNationwide 50 000 usersFor the Quality Guard application in the food industry End customer Quality Guard CUSTOMER CHALLENGE The
Ergon Energy trials LoRaWAN in Townsville to run its network more efficiently NNNCo is working in close partnership with Actility to leverage their Network Server and IoT Platform which has been successfully deployed by operators around the world. Rob Zagarella, CEO of National Narrowband Network (NNNCo) 1.7 million km2Geographic coverage
A key objective for CSTB’s is to stay ahead of market demands. This French organization provides research and innovation, consultancy, testing, training and certification services in the construction industry.
The Actility Blog Actility’s night at the museum The first Actility Operator Forum in Paris on the 29th and 30th of November 2018 saw over 50 global network operators and 100 customers or partners join Actility, at the invitation of CEO and Founder Olivier Hersent, to celebrate the growth of
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The Actility Blog LoRa Alliance Members Meeting in Tokyo Here are a few highlights from our recent LoRa Alliance Members Meeting that was held in Tokyo… Our 2-day Technical Committee meeting was packed with people (nearly 60!) and an overflowing agenda. Basic building blocks of FUOTA (Firmware Update Over-The-Air) feature,
The Actility Blog Business France and the IE-Club recognize Actility as French Tech leader Business France and the IE-Club recently organized the 16th presentation of the Trophées de l’International du Numérique (International Digital Awards) – as part of the International Meeting of French Tech – on the 24th of October
The Actility Blog Interview Olivier Hersent: What will the consequences of electric vehicles (EV) be on the aggregation market? Electric vehicles will soon have a fundamental impact on flex markets. It is astonishing to realize that as soon as 2020, Paris and London will brim with electric buses and that
The Actility Blog Actility honored at the Élysée Palace in recognition of hyper-growth status On Monday 24th September, Actility CEO Olivier Hersent received an award on behalf of the company at a prestigious event at the Élysée Palace in Paris. Presented by Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, Mounir Mahjoubi,
The Actility Blog Sweden raises the bar for LoRaWAN Our client Blink Services recently took the opportunity to combine hosting the second ThingPark Baltic Sea User Forum with their own customer event. It was held the 19th and 20th of September in Gothenburg, Sweden and welcomed new participants from Russia
Railway cars, truck trailers, containers: tracking valuable assets on the move is a pain point for most large distributed organizations involved in logistics and supply chain, typically relying on partners such as distributors to correctly register check-in and check-out events.
The Actility Blog Ms Moore: The LoRa Alliance’s New CEO Shares Her Vision Donna Moore is CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance since March 2018. Actility: As you’re joining the Alliance, where does it stand? How do you see its achievements so far? Donna Moore: Let’s start with a
The Danfoss heat pump can be controlled and monitored via a standard ModBus interface.Our Belgian IoT integration partner Smartlog helped us a great deal by providing a ModBus to LoRaWan converter.
The Actility Blog The City Hub Alliance introduces LoRaWAN connectivity as a service in Sweden LoRaWAN connectivity as a service Let me introduce myself: I’m the COO of Öresundskraft, a communication and energy company in the south of Sweden. In February 2017, we designed and established the world first “Open
The Actility Blog Smart National Park 4.0: How Thai students use LoRaWAN to preserve wildlife From 6-13 January 2018, the Top Gun Rally gathered 300 Thai engineering students to join a five-day hackathon. The Thai Embedded Systems Association (TESA) created this annual “rally” to boost national student skills and provide
The Actility Blog Actility launches Click & Go to facilitate IoT adoption It’s no news to anyone that the IoT is still a fragmented market. When you want to deploy a dedicated LoRaWAN network, you have to find and buy from at least three different parties, three kinds of solutions:
In 2015, the Abeeway founders observed that there were no tracking and location devices in the market offering decent autonomy without oversized batteries or infringed precision of location.
The Actility Blog CityVerve: A smarter Manchester springs to life Northern European early adopters It’s been a bit embarrassing for me, being based in the UK, seeing how readily other Actility customers in other countries in my Northern European region, especially around the Baltic Sea, are adopting LoRaWAN and rolling
The Actility Blog 2017: Actility in the Spotlight Celebrating our ten-year birthday in 2017, Actility stood in the spotlight for a host of prestigious awards and acknowledgments. We’re delighted to share our top three! Actility has entered the top 10 French Tech start-ups you had to invest in last year…
The Actility Blog Watson Helsinki Summit: The Magic Show by Digita, Watson IoT and ThingPark On 18 October, Guy Shelbourne and myself Mark Maidman were invited to attend the IBM Watson Helsinki Summit by our Finnish partner Digita. We told visitors the unheard of capabilities of a public LoRaWAN network,
The Actility Blog Take the Pulse of the Fast West with Deloitte France’s Tech Awards As 2017 is drawing to an end, we’re well into the business ceremonies season! Last month, I was representing Actility as the incumbent Entrepreneur of the Year in the 2017 EY France awards. On 9
The Actility Blog Actility’s IoT geolocation helps to protect workers and assets There’s excellent news coming from the LoRa Alliance: the core LoRaWAN specifications enabling passive roaming are coming out of the oven! As a co-chair of the LoRa Alliance Technical Committee, it’s my pleasure to present you our latest
The Actility Blog Key moments at the EY France Start-up of The Year Awards Ceremony 2017 Here I was again at the prestigious Salle Pleyel for the 25th EY France Entrepreneur of the Year awards ceremony. Participating this year was Christophe Barbier from L’Express, Arnaud Le Gal from Les Echos
The Actility Blog CityHack Bucharest: Pimp my connected bin with LoRaWAN! RAPHAEL APFELDORFER: As Actility’s Experience Engineering Director, I was among the 100 participants of CityHack 2017 in Bucharest, the smart city hackathon organized by Orange Romania, Tremend and Actility. On 22 -23 September, our 8HATS team built a demo
The Actility Blog The Road to IoT Riches, Part 2: From the European birthplace to Global Horizons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-PnlKTzUgU They say that the IoT ecosystem is more mature in Europe than elsewhere. To shed some light on this assertion, we’re looking into the evolution of this ecosystem. We share the insights
The Actility Blog The Road to IoT Riches, Part 1: The New Silk Road in Asia-Pacific End of July, ThingPark China, Actillity’s Chinese branch, signed a landmark agreement to launch an IoT network on the ‘New Silk Road’. This modern day version of the ancient Silk Road is meant to
The Actility Blog At MWC Shanghai, a one-year-old dragon takes its first steps in the Chinese IoT ecosystem By Actility’s Bing LIU – July 1st 2017 was a special date for ThingPark China for two reasons: 1) it has been over a year since our launch in 2016 2) we
The Actility Blog In North America, LoRaWAN Technology Is A Major Sign Of ‘Smart Things’ To Come As global service providers increasingly lay the foundation for the Internet of Things (IoT), the spotlight is beginning to turn on the US and Canada. Companies like Comcast and Cisco are now accelerating
The Actility Blog Cisco Live in the city of lights! Cisco Live is Cisco’s premier education and training destination for IT professionals worldwide. This year, Actility sent two hands full of their crew to support its very own booth at the edition in Las Vegas, running from 25-29 June. Over
The Actility Blog LoRa Alliance Security White Paper The main objective of LoRaWAN, being an LPWAN technology, is obviously to provide IoT connectivity… BUT – because there is always a “but” – we are now all aware that unless IoT connectivity is fully secured, it can create more problems than
The Actility Blog A Revolution in Passive Roaming At the Mobile World Congress a few months ago, Actility announced that it was offering LoRaWAN Network Operators a chance to test their passive roaming capabilities. Today, we are glad to offer this labs platform available before the LoRa Alliance standard specification
The Actility Blog Smart Energies Expo Paris: Connecting with Intelligence to Leverage Energy Flexibility By Arnout Aertgeerts: On 6-7 June, our Utility Practice attended the Smart Energies Expo in Paris. Down a huge hall, 80 exhibitors welcomed 3000 attendees both from companies and utilities. Actility came in numbers (7 altogether)
The Actility Blog 3 Good Fairies Welcome the Newborn Swedish LoRaWAN™ Ecosystem Actility was invited to the Blink Services and Landskrona Energi IoT event on 9 June to brief their potential customers on LoRaWAN™ use cases. Nicolas Beaumer, IoT Product Strategy Manager and myself, Mark Maidman, UK and Northern Europe
Our theme is Smart City and Utilities. A few facts have guided us in choosing this theme. We know today that half of the world’s inhabitants—3.6 billion people—live in cities, and it is growing fast. By 2030, 60 percent of the population—5 billion people—will be city dwellers.
The Actility Blog Actility’s IoT perspectives in the Middle East from oil rigs to happiness meters By Ahmed Bouna: Actility is exploring new territories as much as it is pioneering with IoT technologies. As the sales lead for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), me and my team attended
The Actility Blog Actility is at Cisco Live Las Vegas! By Magali Mitaux: Mark your calendars the next Cisco Live is in Las Vegas from June 25th to 29th! What is Cisco live? Cisco Live is the premier education and training destination for IT professionals worldwide. It is a yearly
The Actility Blog Looking for smart energy sensors? What is essential is invisible to the eye! A significant player in IoT with its range of smart sensors, NKE Watteco manufactures products to meet every requirement of remote and complex data collection. Its recent involvement in the Smart Grid Vendée project
The Actility Blog Innovation is the way to overcome the energy industry’s crisis By Mehdi Hajjam: The energy transition will not happen because it is not a transition. It will be a fast, brutal and systemic revolution. An exponential curve. That was the key takeaway at the Accenture roundtable held
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