EI Towers, NetTrotter and Sigfox connect Italy to Sigfox network
Sigfox, EI Towers and NetTrotter have announced apartnership to roll out the SIGFOX IoT network across Italy.
Currently deployed in nine countries and registering five million devices, Sigfox guarantees a high level of service and reliability. Sigfox claims to enable years-to-decades of battery life for connected devices in all business and industry sectors, on a global scale.
With this partnership, Italy becomes the tenth country to receive national Sigfox network coverage. As a Sigfox network operator, NetTrotter will provide two-way subscription-based connectivity to Italian customers, and will work closely with Sigfox and IT developers and device makers to integrate the Sigfox protocol into a wide range of applications.
With more than seven million object connections, Italy is one of the biggest M2M markets in Europe and it presents a stirring annual growth expectation for the coming years.
“Italian IoT customers are keen to adopt new, beneficial technology applications across multiple sectors such as smart cities, health care, manufacturing, construction, transportation and safety and security,” said Carlos Lambarri, the chief executive of NetTrotter. “The Sigfox network is key to NetTrotter’s plan to install and operate the IoT throughout Italy, because it provides highly scalable connectivity at low-cost and very low energy consumption for connected devices.”
Rodolphe Baronnet-Frugès, the executive vice president of networks and operators, at Sigfox, added: “This partnership with EI Towers and NetTrotter is another great example of Sigfox’s ability to work with entrepreneurial companies that want to rapidly roll out our network across a large area. Coupled with EI Towers’ excellent footprint, it will quickly implement a vital IoT ecosystem in Italy. Italy has a very dynamic electronic industry at the forefront of the world IoT industry. We are excited to work with our partners and assist in bridging the Italian IoT initiatives to the rest of the world.”
As part of its global expansion, Sigfox recently announced that its network will be installed in 10 major U.S. cities by Q1 2016: San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Houston, Atlanta, Dallas and San Jose.