MinebeaMitsumi commits to open communication networks by joining the uCIFI Alliance
MinebeaMitsumi Group, a global provider of Electro Mechanics Solutions, and its European Research & Development centre, Paradox Engineering, specialists in wireless technologies and IoT solutions for smart cities, have joined the uCIFI Alliance.
This move is designed to contribute to the development of truly open, multi-supplier, interoperable, multi-transport wireless communication solutions for the smart city and smart utility markets.
Launched on June 18th, 2018 at the IoT Tech Expo in Amsterdam, the uCIFI Alliance aims to unlock the Smart City and Smart Grid markets by developing a unified data model across multiple existing networking technologies, including LoRa, NB-IoT and an Open-Source long-range mesh that the uCIFI Alliance shall also develop.
The uCIFI Alliance proposes four membership levels including SponsorLevel, Contributor Level, Adopter Level (open mid-2019) and Observer Level for cities, utilities and consultants who want to show their support to the development of open interoperable wireless networking solutions for the smart city and smart utility markets.
With MinebeaMitsumi Group joining as a Sponsor Member, the uCIFI Alliance extends its reach and gets a unique expertise in this field. MinebeaMitsumi will contribute to the definition and specification of the uCIFI unified data model as well as provide their field experience for the development of long-range wireless mesh systems suitable for large scale smart city and smart metering projects.
For Michiya Kagami, chief of engineering at MinebeaMitsumi,” MinebeaMitsumi aims at contributing to the IoT era with its outstanding technology solutions, and is proud to support the vision of uCIFI towards the possibility for Customers to build true future proof Smart Cities interconnecting services and devices to improve the people’s life.”
“Open standards and interoperability have always been part of Paradox Engineering’s technology vision and approach to Smart Cities and Internet of Things”, Gianni Minetti, president & CEO at Paradox Engineering, said, “We believe that a unified data model for open wireless networks will drastically simplify multi-supplier solutions and unlock Smart City and IoT projects for the good of citizens, communities and industries. uCIFI is a real opportunity to boost a future of massive adoption and on-boarding of actors that can benefit from a connected world. We are glad to be part of uCIFI and contribute to this mission.”
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