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Option™ and Actility Join Strengths to Offer Tailored, High-end LoRaWAN IoT Solution

Leuven, Belgium & Paris, France – October 6, 2021 

Option™, a subsidiary of Crescent, has joined forces with Actility and its Abeeway division as Channel Partner. The robust and versatile CloudGate gateway works seamlessly with Actility’s flagship private LoRaWAN®  network management platform ThingPark Enterprise.

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Option’s CloudGate gateway is backed by its extensive engineering consultancy and has powerful interfaces for aggregating sensor data to Cloud environments. Option has developed a successful innovative CloudGate LoRa portfolio specifically designed for Smart Building applications. 

CloudGate gateways are LoRaWAN® technology enabled, connecting to the vast majority of the world’s leading LoRaWAN Network Providers such as Actility.  CloudGate gateways offer proven superior indoor performance and are ideal for Smart Building and Smart Energy & Metering 

LoRaWAN® is a widely used wireless protocol that allows battery-operated devices to communicate with IoT applications via long-range, wireless connections, allowing longer battery life, thus lowering the cost of device ownership. LoRaWAN® is especially useful in large-scale deployments because of its availability, cost, and reach, due to its use of unlicensed spectrum, the availability of standardized, low-cost modules with long battery life.  

ThingPark Enterprise is a LoRaWAN IoT connectivity management platform that helps customers build network infrastructure by managing LoRaWAN gateways, add new LoRaWAN devices, monitor network operations, and control the flow of data to application servers. ThingPark Enterprise is specifically designed for enterprises: it’s simple, scalable, and easy to operate, and offers a unique low-power IoT communication infrastructure to enable an infinite number of industrial use cases. 

Option’s CloudGate gateways are fully integrated with ThingPark Enterprise and are available in Actility’s gateway portfolio on Actility’s IoT marketplace, ThingPark Market 

Option’s CloudGate gateways are the world’s leading smart-edge gateways and feature centralized remote update and configuration management, state-of-the-art authentication mechanism, centralized channel-plan management, with no dependency on local time keeping. Now also available for the LoRaWAN environment. 

Contact:

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Edwin Bex
Gaston Geenslaan 14 
B-3001 Leuven, Belgium 
TEL: +32 (0) 16 31 74 11 
E-mail: investor@option.com 
www.opticrescent.com 

About Crescent 

CRESCEN NVT, a Company listed on Euronext Brussels, is a technology group led by Eric Van Zele.  Crescent IoT Solutions combines 5G technology from its engineering services division with distinctive RF antenna design capabilities to provide solutions and services deployed in reliable (private) IoT networks. Option™ with its CloudGate platform, has powerful open interfaces for aggregating (sensor) data to (Cloud) environments and has developed a successful innovative proprietary LoRa platform specifically designed for Smart Building applications. Remoticom BV develops IoT sensors for Smart Lighting, Smart City and Smart Industry applications which are commonly connected via NB-IoT/LTE-M cellular technology and will expand its sensor technology with non-cellular as well as 5G connectivity solutions. As a system integrator, S.A.I.T BV delivers solutions for business-critical communication systems and integrate the possibilities of private 5G technology with state-of-the-art sensing solutions.

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 

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