Actility, the developer of an IoT platform for LoRaWAN and a cofounder of the LoRa Alliance, has partnered with Hiber which is planning a network of nano satellites for IoT.
The two say their collaboration will enable LoRaWAN connectivity in remote and developing parts of the globe that until now have not had access to an IoT network.
Dutch startup Hiber launched the first of a planned constellation of 48 nanosatellites in November 2018 and we reported at the time that it planned to partner with Actility and with IBM Watson.
Actility has an IoT platform, ThingPark, that it claims underpins more than half the national LPWA network rollouts globally.
ThingPark is described as “a central IoT management service to connect sensors to applications with bidirectional interactions … a data analytics and control framework which exposes data from connected things to applications [that] connects with cloud platforms, and also offers off the shelf IoT industrial applications.”
It says ThingPark connects sensors gathering data to cloud applications on any scale, from global or national networks to secure on-campus enterprise solutions, managing devices, data flows and monetisation.
Hiber says it has developed an interface that connects Hiberband—the network created by its satellites—with Actility enabling critical data collected by IoT sensors to be encapsulated into LoRaWAN packets and transmitted around the world by the Hiberband network.
“End users and service providers can then see, manage and operate remote LoRaWAN-powered devices in the Actility ThingPark interfaces.”
Actility CEO and co-founder Olivier Hersent said the collaboration would give clients and partners of the two companies the capability to deploy use cases that require global coverage.
“In particular, oil and gas and continent-to-continent logistics organisations operating in remote industrial areas will greatly benefit from the collaboration.”
Hiber managing director commercial and co-founder Laurens Groenendijk said the company’s first customers were about to go live using the first two of its planned 48 satellite constellation.
Hiber officially launched at the Amazon Web Services Re:invent Conference in November 2018 where it was named commercial startup launch of 2018.
Australian LoRaWAN network operator NNN CO announced in February 2017 it had contracted Actility to help rollout out what it said would be Australia’s first industrial IoT network, However the company has since migrated to an in-house developed platform.
