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This morning, a Sigfox news exploded in the IoT circle, probably because there was no management committee’s request for opinions recently, and people were panicking. The smooth landing of Sigfox in China has inspired many practitioners.
[Original from Sigfox] is this:
Beijing, January 9, 2018 - Today, telecare company Senioradom and Sigfox, the world’s leading IoT connectivity service, signed a strategic agreement in the presence of both the French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping to begin their deployment in the Chinese market.
The Chengdu High-Tech Industrial Development Zone has committed to an investment of almost €300M to deploy the solution in China’s 20 biggest cities, following a one-year, 1500-person trial, beginning in 2018 in the city of Chengdu.
Witnessed by Chinese President Emmanuel Macron and French President Emmanuel Macron, Sigfox signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Senioradom, a telecare solutions company, to jointly develop the Chinese market.
The Chengdu Hi-Tech Zone has submitted a $300 million investment project, which it plans to deploy in 20 major Chinese cities, including Chengdu, over the next year.
There is more information in another [Taiwan Economic Daily report], and China Unicom is also involved in this project.
IoT technology Sigfox will expand rapidly in mainland China! French President Macron and Sigfox founder and co-founder Ludovic Le Moan, Chinese President Xi, and telecom operator China Unicom signed a letter of intent for cooperation in Chengdu, China today (9th). IoT infrastructure work in cities. During Macron's three-day visit to China, it became a milestone in the development of smart cities and IoT applications.
It is worth mentioning that in the cooperation project of 300 million euros (about 10.6 billion Taiwan dollars), the long-term care service for smart cities is one of the investment priorities. Sigfox system operator UnaBiz General Manager Qiu Sunen said: Sigfox's launch in China is undoubtedly good news for Taiwan's IoT partners! Sigfox has coverage in 36 countries around the world, and the 37th newly added today is China, the world's largest IoT market; especially the developing IoT design and production manufacturers in Taiwan, the global market has become a reality. There is an order of magnitude growth between them, which is a huge market change and opportunity for Unabi's partners.
For the interpretation of this news, first of all, I have to give Sigfox the knee of this little expert. I still remember that in order to enter the United States last year, LoRa took a lot of equity to sign an agreement with Comcast. Sigfox saved it directly this time, pulled to the presidential platform, and pulled the line from the top. I believe that the road in China will be much more comfortable.
Technology has long passed the era when wine is not afraid of deep alleys, and the competition of various Internet of Things technologies is the ability of operation. The most obvious thing in 3GPP's standard formulation is whether a proposal is technically powerful or not. The operation of LoRa is also very obvious. The former chairman of the ZigBee Alliance was directly dug to help copy the LoRa Alliance. The various promotion strategies are exactly the same. In the case of such a high voice of NB, it is still firm and NB to share the world.
By the way, learn about Sigfox. Like the LoRa Alliance, the official website also released a global network coverage map. Yes, the pattern is very important, the globe bought by Taobao is coming home soon.
There have been commercial pilots in Taiwan and Hong Kong earlier. My building is so close to Kinmen, I don’t know if I can receive a signal, so I will take my CC1310 to check it out.
Secondly, behind this news, the approval of the Sigfox network deployment at the national level is actually the biggest response to the recent consultation by the non-government committee for the micro-power spectrum ban on networking. After the consultation came out last month, in addition to the secretly happy parties in the licensed spectrum, all parties in the industry are actively speaking out. In particular, several articles from the Internet of Things think tank are of high quality, and those who are interested can go and read it. Hundreds of partners in the LoRa camp are cheering their flags. Semtech and CLAA are actively giving feedback here. I didn’t expect Sigfox to kill a bloody road halfway.
Little expert, I am optimistic about the final result of the opinion draft, which is difficult to implement after all. There are too many stock devices on the market, not to mention whether the management committee can handle the three major oil companies, the State Grid, and the ZigBee smart home and Bluetooth Mesh in the homes of ordinary people. Can the management committee handle it?
We, the Internet of Things people, are fortunate to participate in this historical process of the Internet of Things. Capable and responsible companies are fighting for it in the front, watching the masses move the bench, expecting a decent and good result from the non-government committee, so that the Internet of Things in China will develop more benignly. I believe that the Internet of Things will be more interesting than what we see now.