KERLINK (EPA:ALKLK) - Smart-City Solution Built by Kerlink & Pilot Things Wins Award for Bordeaux Metropolitan Authority
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Smart-City Solution Built by Kerlink & Pilot Things
Wins Award for Bordeaux Metropolitan Authority
System Combines Internet of Things Sensors, Wirnet(TM) Stations and Dedicated
Applications
For Cities to Quickly Act on Their Energy-Savings and Quality-of-Service Goals
PRESS RELEASE
Paris - May 16, 2019, 06:00 p.m. CET - Kerlink (ALKLK - FR0013156007), a
specialist and global leader in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things
(IoT), and Pilot Things, a software company, today announced their
collaboration on a smart-city network in France won an award for the Bordeaux
Metropolitan Authority.
Their smart-city control center features quick and easy deployment of key use
cases like smart parking, smart lighting and smart buildings. The system's
jointly developed application-programming interfaces (APIs) access an
integrated package combining the two companies' technologies for simple
deployment and management of smart-city applications and for collecting,
monitoring and acting on data from more than 200 pre-installed, ready-to-use
LoRa(r) sensors.
The tightly integrated end-to-end solution combines Kerlink's Wirnet(TM)
Stations and Pilot Things' software to enable smart-cities to analyze data on a
variety of vital city services. Called Things as a Service (TaaS), the system
was installed in a smart-city trial system in Bordeaux, France's ninth-largest
city.
The pilot program was recognized by Solutions Numeriques magazine with the
Digital Transformation Trophy in 2019.
The deployment included approximately 500 sensors connected to more than 200
public street lights, e-vehicle charging stations, refuse-sorting containers,
waste bins and public buildings near Bordeaux's new outdoor Matmut Atlantique
stadium and arena. Following a successful six-month trial of the smart-city
network, the regional authority, Bordeaux Métropole, expanded it across the
larger metro area, including additional Kerlink sensors.
Authority officials expect to decrease electricity consumption and to tailor a
range of services to make city operations both more efficient and more
convenient for residents.
In addition to using private and public networks to connect sensors to its
platform, Pilot Things offers a catalog of pre-integrated sensors. It also
creates digital avatars of each of its sensors that are used in online
tutorials to explain to field operators how their IoT networks are
functioning.
"Partnering with innovative companies in the IoT ecosystem to create
responsive, reliable solutions for our joint customers is a pillar of Kerlink's
global growth strategy," said Stéphane Dejean, chief marketing officer at
Kerlink. "Starting with our customers' specific needs, we combine our expertise
in verticals to develop tailored and intuitive services that create value for
the end-user, As the Bordeaux Métropole trial and subsequent network rollout
show, the combination of Pilot Things' platform and Kerlink's IoT network
solutions is a complete, robust and reliable offering for smart-city
programs."
"Pilot Things carefully evaluates and integrates technology from many proven
suppliers so we can help smart-cities build and operate the best networks
available," said CEO Eric Szymkowiak. "Kerlink stations, deployed around the
world, ensure our customers of the system performance, reliability and
flexibility they require."
About Kerlink Group
Kerlink Group is a global leading provider and designer of end-to-end
connectivity solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), serving telecom
operators, private businesses and public authorities worldwide. Its growing
suite of turnkey IoT services offers network design and operational management
software that maximizes the performance of its market-leading, carrier-grade
infrastructure offering. The Group, widely recognized for its IoT expertise,
also continually introduces innovative value-added services, such as outdoor
and indoor geolocation, remote end-device management and low-power IoT
reference design, which enable its customers to quickly bring to market
IoT-ready devices and to imagine innovative business models to capture the
value of the IoT. Kerlink recently acted as a solution catalyst and designer to
bring to market with its sensors and applications partners a set of integrated
solutions to answer specific business challenges faced by private companies and
smart cities.
In just over 11 years, more than 120,000 Kerlink installations have been
deployed in more than 69 countries. Kerlink is supplying more than 330
customers worldwide, including major telcos such as Tata Communications, and
service providers such as GrDF and Suez. The company's solutions are enabling
major deployments in Europe, South Asia, South America, Japan and Oceania.
Kerlink, a co-founder and board member of the LoRa Alliance(TM), has invested
more than EUR16 million in R&D over the past five years. It has been listed on
Euronext Growth Paris since May 2016 and entered the 150 fast-growing French
SMEs "EnterNext PEA-PME 150" index in 2017. In 2018, it joined the "Tech 40
index", which recognizes the top- performing tech SMEs on Euronext's markets in
Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris.
For more information, visit www.kerlink.com or follow us on Twitter
@kerlink_news.
About Pilot Things
Pilot Things' key value proposition is to digitalize cities and factories by
automatically and easily transforming physical sensors to data (Things as a
Service technology). We have built a catalogue of pre-integrated sensors for a
plug-and-play Internet of Things networks. Our customers use this data to
create new use cases or feed their information systems with real-time
information.
Pilot Things' technology was developed over two years with international R&D
labs and in partnership with manufacturers and IoT solution providers like
Kerlink. Pilot Things supports oneM2M global IoT standard used by numerous
cities worldwide.
The software company serves customers in France, the US and Canada and is
expanding in Asia and India.
For more information, visit www.pilot-things.com and follow us on Twitter
@pilotthings
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H1 2019 Revenue: 23 July 2019, after market close
www.kerlink.com
Contact:
Pilot Things
Eric SZYMKOWIAC
es@pilot-things.com
Investors contact:
Actifin
Benjamin Lehari
+33 (0)1 56 88 11 25
blehari@actifin.fr
Kerlink press and market analysts contact:
Mahoney Lyle
Sarah-Lyle Dampoux
+33 (0) 6 74 93 23 47
sldampoux@mahoneylyle.com
Financial press contact:
Actifin
Isabelle Dray
+33 (0) 1 56 88 11 29
idray@actifin.fr
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