Avnet Sigfox Conference 2018 will
showcase end-to-end enterprise solutions for IoT and smart city applications
Avnet Asia Pacific will host the Avnet Sigfox Conference 2018 tomorrow at the Hong Kong Science
Technology Park. The conference will showcase Avnet’s innovative enterprise
solutions using Sigfox’s proprietary network technologies to support companies
embarking on IoT projects.
“As the partner of
choice for IoT, Avnet is able to provide an integrated ecosystem that connects
different parties with the three major types of Low-Power Wide Area Network
(LPWAN) technologies — Sigfox, LoRa and
NB-IoT,” said Joe Chung, director, solutions development, Avnet Asia. “We can
customize solutions and designs, and bundle the required products and services with
system integrators, service providers, device manufacturers,
cloud platform providers, and components suppliers to simplify complexities of
the IoT ecosystem, thereby reducing time to market. Through this integrated approach, we can support
and drive IoT initiatives for our customers.”
Recently, Avnet entered
into a global agreement with Sigfox to jointly promote their products and
services. With the Sigfox Ecosystem Partner Agreement, Avnet is
able to connect different parties to offer a complete end-to-enterprise
solution in Sigfox: components from suppliers such as ON Semiconductor, NXP, STMicroelectronics;
Sigfox-compliant modules from device manufacturers such as Wisol; connectivity
services from network providers including Thinxtra and UnaBiz, and
complementing with Avnet’s design capabilities to customize IoT solutions. The
conference will feature a line-up of speakers from many of these parties.
Sigfox’s competence in
LPWAN makes their technology one of the most widely-deployed networks that
serves IoT connectivity and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. These
network technologies are required in most smart city applications, as they are
particularly suited for long-distance data transmission (more than 20km). The
conference will demonstrate Avnet’s capabilities at implementing Sigfox
services within Avnet’s end-to-end solutions, which in turn help bring
customers’ ideas to market.
Frank Sauber, Director Ecosystem at Sigfox commented, “Avnet is a key
technology enabler in Low-Power
Wide Area Network technologies, and through our close collaboration we are
providing a wide range of robust offerings from leading ecosystem partners that
are suitable for a host of IoT applications–from asset tracking/logistics to
industrial sensing as well as smart metering, waste management, security and
more.”
Avnet is committed to
establishing itself as the partner of choice in the development of LPWAN and
IoT solutions through a series of partnerships in Asia. Late last year, Avnet
utilized the LoRa® platform to work with Cisco on its first
visionary smart-city program, “Digital Living Lab“,
which aims to build a truly smart and connected Hong Kong. Earlier this year,
Avnet also collaborated with local telecommunications firm, 3 Hong Kong, to
offer system integration support to start-up companies selected by the firm’s
“3Innocity” campaign, paving a way towards accessing 3 Hong Kong’s expanded
Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) network connectivity. Avnet’s capabilities in the three
major LPWAN technologies makes it a unique solution provider.
For more information on Avnet’s expertise in
LPWAN, please visit https://www.avnet.com/wps/portal/apac/solutions/technologies/lpwan.
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About Avnet
From idea to design and from prototype to production, Avnet
supports customers at each stage of a product’s lifecycle. A comprehensive
portfolio of design and supply chain services makes Avnet the go-to guide for
innovators who set the pace for technological change. For nearly a century,
Avnet has helped its customers and suppliers around the world realize the
transformative possibilities of technology. Learn more about Avnet at www.avnet.com.
About Sigfox
Sigfox
is the world’s leading IoT service provider thanks to its global network that
connects billions of devices to the Internet while consuming as little energy
as possible, as simply as possible. Sigfox’s unique approach to device-to-cloud
communications addresses the three greatest barriers to global IoT adoption:
cost, energy consumption, and global scalability.
Today,
the network is present in 45 countries and on track to cover 60 by 2018. With
millions of objects connected and a rapidly growing partner ecosystem, Sigfox
empowers companies to move their business model towards more digital services.
Founded in 2010 by Ludovic Le Moan and Christophe Fourtet, the company is
headquartered in Labège near Toulouse, France’s “IoT Valley”. Sigfox also has
offices in Paris, Madrid, Munich, Boston, San Francisco, Dubai, Singapore, Sao
Paulo and Tokyo.
