PARIS, FRANCE: Kerlink and VIoT Group introduced their partnership to rollout Vietnam’s first nationwide LoRaWAN IoT network, and VIoT’s plan to support Helium’s “The People’s Network”.
Launched in 2017, VIoT launched IoT smart-city applications in Vietnam in 2018 with a LoRaWAN streetlighting project and has expanded its offer to vertical-market applications such as smart metering by utilities, end-to-end air-water-quality monitoring, and early flood-incident administration systems.
The company’s lighting-as-a-service (LaaS) and connectivity-as-a-service (CaaS) business-leasing fashions will be deployed through its partnership with Kerlink to allow Helium’s HNT blockchain and cryptocurrency mining in peer-to-peer wi-fi IoT networks. VIoT will thus distribute Kerlink Helium-enabled hotspots and deploy its personal IoT community on the identical time.
“These deployments will make it possible for Vietnamese factories, businesses, cities and consumers to profit from of cost effective, easy-to-deploy vertical wi-fi solutions, and to make use of Helium’s global, decentralized community of hotspots to disrupt conventional telcos’ subscription-based working models. Think AirBnB or Grab for telcos: if I have an empty room, energy and web why would I not use it as a community tower?” said Viet Nguyen, founder and CEO of VIoT Group.
“VIoT Group collaborates with companions and family owners in strategic locations to roll out Helium’s The People Network. Our goal is to be the primary to leverage this chance in Vietnam for corporations and native governments that aim to profit from the most cost-effective and extremely secured blockchain-powered IoT spine network.”
The firm said the preliminary deployment phase of its LoRaWAN IoT network, together with roughly 350 Kerlink gateways, will be accomplished by the finish of May and can cowl six Vietnamese cities and municipalities this year. The second phase, will set up roughly 1,400 additional Kerlink gateways, is anticipated to be accomplished by the finish of 2022 and canopy 10 extra cities in 2023.
More broadly, the corporate will market its nationwide managed IoT community for turnkey options mixing sensors, connectivity, integration, and applications, such as smart lighting and smart metering, in a single open IoT platform.
Called “The People’s Network”, Helium technology makes use of the company’s LongFi structure that mixes the LoRaWAN wi-fi protocol (200 times the protection of the WiFi protocol) with the Helium blockchain, enabling any LoRaWAN device to switch data on the Helium network. This connection provides public, long-range and low-power wi-fi protection for LoRaWAN-enabled IoT sensors and devices because LongFi’s roaming capabilities support micropayment transactions so customers pay solely based on community usage.
“Individuals worldwide have used Helium’s community to create greater than 642,000 hotspots,” said Rene Arbefeuille, Kerlink’s vice president for Asia Pacific.
“The connected hotspots present cities with miles of low-power community protection for billions of devices and are paid in Helium’s cryptocurrency, HNT. Kerlink’s industrial-grade indoor Wirnet iFemtoCell and Wirnet iFemtoCell-evolution, in addition to carrier-grade outdoor Wirnet iStation IoT gateways, have been enabling the use of HNT cryptocurrency mining on the LoRaWAN protocol for the previous year.”
Kerlink Group is a number one global supplier of end-to-end connectivity options for designing, deploying, and working public & private low power/wide space (LPWA) Internet of Things (IoT) networks. www.kerlink.com
VIoT Technology Startup was based by a group of younger Vietnamese-Australian experts with in-depth experiences within the field of ICT and IoT developments who share the identical imaginative and prescient and ardour to unlock the energy of AIoT associated options for smart city and industrial park developments. With headquarters and R&D centre in Viet Nam, consultant workplace in Australia, VIoT focuses on developing open AIoT platforms and smart devices to wirelessly join and handle infrastructure, industrial lights, and built-in sensors for the developments of smart factories, industrial and cities. www.viotgroup.com