UnaBiz and French IoT firm Actility are bringing Sigfox and LoRaWan together under one platform to simplify IoT projects.

The joint effort aims to bring the power of LoRaWan and Sigfox 0G technology together in a simple and unified manner, helping users meet their diverse networking requirements and accelerate their IoT projects.

Actility, the co-inventor of LoRaWan and founding member of LoRa Alliance, serves LoRaWan and cellular-based public and private LPWAN networks with its ThingPark platform, and low-power geolocation use cases with its Abeeway trackers. Singapore-based UnaBiz, which acquired Sigfox last year, specialises in sensor product design, manufacturing and data platform services across a hybrid of network communication technologies to power sustainable business growth.

UnaBiz and Actility have integrated their platforms at two different levels.

A specific ThingPark X connector is used in the first type of integration to link networks powered by ThingPark to UnaConnect, UnaBiz’s tech-agnostic data management platform. Users of UnaConnect may now access data flows collected from LoRaWan and NB-IoT and LTE-M devices that are served by the ThingPark network deployments and global IoT SIMs thanks to this integration.

The second integration brings Sigfox data to LoRaWans and applications via the ThingPark Exchange roaming hub. This helps translate Sigfox frames to LoRaWan frames and vice versa. Any standard LoRaWan connected to ThingPark Exchange and IoT applications built for LoRaWan can now leverage devices powered by Sigfox 0G technology without any special adaptation.

As both integration methods are independent of one another, customers may choose to use them separately or in combination.

“It is a reality that the market uses a mix of LPWAN technologies,” said Olivier Hersent, CEO of Actility. “UnaBiz and Actility have decided to integrate both our technologies in multiple ways so that any customer may easily utilise either, or a combination of the two, instead of being forced to choose one or do a complex integration on their own. This partnership serves as a resounding affirmation of our shared goal of building massive IoT.”

Henri Bong, CEO of UnaBiz, added: “Actility was one of the first LoRaWan partners to share our vision of convergence. We are extremely pleased to take another step towards our vision of a united LPWAN world, and excited to see the integration of our technologies happen so swiftly.”

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. Through its subsidiary Abeeway, Actility also provides patented low-power tracking products.

UnaBiz is a global massive IoT service provider and integrator that specialises in design, manufacturing, connectivity and data platform services across a hybrid of network communication technologies to power sustainable business growth. UnaBiz owns the Sigfox 0G technology which powers the global 0G network that connects over 11 million sensors for 1500 B2B customers in collaboration with more than 70 national 0G operators and partners.