JACQUES HUSSER CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
JACQUES HUSSER CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER THE INTERNET OF THINGS WILL BE THE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING THE INTERNET OF THINGS WILL MAINLY USE SMALL MESSAGES THE GLOBAL SIGFOX OPERATED Customer IT CELLULAR NETWORK DEDICATED TO SMALL MESSAGES Secure IP connection UNB 2-WAY NETWORK ENERGY CONSUMPTION: THE KEY TO THE IOT 300X LESS ENERGY 10X LOWER COSTS ULTRA LOW POWER, COST-EFFICIENT, NO-PAIRING OBJECTS 1 - Any Radio Transceivers Chip Vendor 2 – Unlicensed SIGFOX Radio S/W 3 – Unique SIGFOX ID per device THE 4 UNBEATABLE KEYS THAT MAKE 1 SIGFOX THE BEST 2 LOWEST TCO POSSIBLE SOLUTION OUT-OFTHE-BOX CONNECTIVITY 3 LOWEST ENERGY CONSUMPTION GLOBAL REACH 4 2014 COVERAGE SIGNED SNO: UK, BELGIUM ON GOING NEGOTIATIONS: GERMANY, ITALY PORTUGAL, SWITZERLAND, IRELAND, POLAND KOREA, SINGAPOUR, CALIFORNIA + USA CHINA, INDIA 5 STEPS TO GET #1 Design device CONNECTED TO SIGFOX NETWORK #2 Get device certified #3 Sign subscriptions agreement #4 Get devices unique IDs #5 Power on device: you’re done ! Connected Home A WIDE RANGE OF INDUSTRIES 1.6bn (2020 LOW-POWER CONNECTIONS ESTIMATE) Government, Aerospace and Defense Automotive, Transportation and logistics 0.2bn 1.3bn Healthcare Industry 0.4bn 0.6bn Smart Cities 0.4bn Source: ABI Research “The Internet of Everything Market Tracker” (August 2014) Water Metering Without SIGFOX, efficient and affordable management and control of water distribution network would not be possible for cities and municipalities OPPORTUNITY SIGFOX SOLUTIONS • 20% of the water distributed in developed countries is estimated to be lost (50% in emerging markets) • Water AMR solutions use SIGFOX batterypowered radio transmitters installed on • Yield over 85% for each drinking water each meter to transfer the meter reading network by 2017 imposed by French directly to a centralized management Grenelle II Act software program • Huge investments required to improve • Water network managers can expect to existing water networks operate the AMR solution for at least 12 years without battery replacement • Necessary to continuously monitor water flow consumption and be alerted of any water leaks in real time VISIBLE BENEFITS • Real-time monitoring of water distribution networks, with continuous reading of water meters, allowing: • Increased frequency of readings • Detection of fraud and overconsumption • Invoicing based on actual consumption (rather than estimated) SIGFOX low TCO and proven OSS/BSS solutions disruptively change the smart metering market as a response to expensive bills for Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) shipments enabled by costly proprietary technology Electricity Metering OPPORTUNITY SIGFOX SOLUTIONS SIGFOX Solutions • Electricity deregulation and market-driven pricing urge a means to match consumption with generation • Call for (near) real-time sensors, power outage notification and power quality monitoring • Real-time monitoring enabled by SIGFOX ubiquitous network • Data reading in a centralized cloud solution VISIBLE BENEFITS Visible Benefits • Lowest TCO • Lowest energy consumption • Environment concerns for energy saving • Largest coverage (no need of repeaters thanks to SIGFOX cellular topology) • Costly smart meter shipments when enabled by GSM or proprietary MESH technologies • Strong building penetration including hard-to-reach underground meters • Stability and reliability SIGFOX enables the world's largest smart parking deployment with low-power wide-area seamless connectivity Smart Parking Potential large-scale smart cities projects clearly lie ahead OPPORTUNITY SIGFOX SOLUTIONS SIGFOX Solutions • Congested city centers • Increasing parking pressure • Magnetic sensor drilled in the ground with SIGFOX connectivity • Necessary monitoring of parking information deterred by the OPEX and energy constraints of the GSM • Parking spots can be found via a mobile app or electronic street panels VISIBLE BENEFITS Visible Benefits • Lowest energy consumption • Lowest TCO • OPEX only driven by battery maintenance • Reduced traffic density • Optimized management of urban parking areas • Information provided on the most frequented areas and times of the day • Green city with lower CO2 emissions SIGFOX brings disruption to traditional waste collection methods by allowing significant improvements in efficiency, which result in dramatic cost reductions Waste Collection OPPORTUNITY SIGFOX SOLUTIONS SIGFOX Solutions • The increase in waste generated and the introduction of waste segmentation for recycling purposes led to the obsolescence of traditional waste collection methods • Inefficiency • Complicate to manage • SIGFOX technology is used to transmit information about the status of each container • Each existing waste container is equipped with a specific ultrasonic sensor that provides a complete view of its fill rate • Data is centralized and presented in an internet portal managed by the local council or the service company, which can then plan routes accordingly VISIBLE BENEFITS Visible Benefits • Competitive communication costs with lower capital expenditure and longer battery life, driving down the total cost of ownership by up to 80% • 100% overflow prevention • Fill rate forecasting to optimize collection routes and save money and resources • Increased quality of service, • Possible implementation of waste environmental care and city image disposal tracking for each user to regulate • Information on neighborhoods, districts taxes and communities Full 20% Empty Alarm System SIGFOX can be used as a reliable secondary connectivity provider with low TCO OPPORTUNITY SIGFOX SOLUTIONS SIGFOX Solutions • Cellular connectivity used for alarm panels is costly and not reliable • GSM connectivity can easily be jammed by burglars • Alarm system providers have no choice but to find alternative connectivity solutions for redundancy purposes • Second/independent communication channel enabled by SIGFOX • Second channel of communication acting as a back-up if the primary communication channel fails • No change in hardware, most alarm panels can be turned SIGFOX-ready through a firmware upgrade that can be performed via existing GSM connectivity VISIBLE BENEFITS Visible Benefits • Very low investment to connect the panels with SIGFOX brings a lot of value for security providers through strengthened reliability • Alarm system keeps functioning in the event of a power failure without bulky and costly back-up batteries Freed from constraints in costs and energy consumptions, SIGFOX delivers incomparable solutions to ensure the reliability of smoke detectors Smoke Detectors OPPORTUNITY SIGFOX SOLUTIONS SIGFOX Solutions • Smoke detectors installation imposed by regulation • Current reliability issue • Battery life • No connectivity • Remotely monitor the devices (battery + on/off status) • In case of fire, the device can send emergency alarm message through its SIGFOX connectivity VISIBLE BENEFITS Visible Benefits • No other technology could provide a comparable solution, constrained by cost and energy consumption • Reliability dramatically increased at a marginal cost (key for insurance companies) • Lifetime connectivity cost can easily be bundled in the product cost Home Care Monitoring SIGFOX enables home care solution providers to improve services with reliable connectivity at marginal cost OPPORTUNITY SIGFOX SOLUTIONS SIGFOX Solutions • Explosive eHealth solutions for elderly people with booming “silver economy” • Monitoring of home care for aged people deterred by the OPEX and energy constraints of GSM • Call for affordable and reliable low throughput connectivity since broadband penetration is extremely low among the targeted audience VISIBLE BENEFITS Visible Benefits • Time monitoring • Attendance control of nurses • Connected strap for Alzheimer patients allowing to detect falls or house/hospital border crossing thanks to SIGFOX network's unique geolocalisation features • Improved services of home care which is a key priority to reduce the cost burden on social security systems • Lowest TCO • OPEX only driven by battery maintenance • Lowest energy consumption • Stability and reliability • Easily replicable SIGFOX US network allows Whistle, a leading vendor of pets health monitoring devices, to offer an additional wide-area tracking service “WhistleGPS” for pets in up to ten US cities(1) Asset&Human Tracking 3,000 pre-orders within 24 hours/10,000 pre-orders within 10 days OPPORTUNITY SIGFOX SOLUTIONS SIGFOX Solutions • Whistle is an existing activity monitoring device for pets (dogs) using a small collar- • WhistleGPS attached device that logs data and • No change in hardware (in particular, no uploads periodically to a Smartphone via GPS module in the collar) Bluetooth • No compromise in device autonomy • The device has a battery life of 10 days between recharges • Additional wide-area tracking service could possibly be leveraged with the collar hardware gadget (1) Operational in California Bay area/San Diego by 2015 Visible Benefits • SIGFOX is a key enabler to allow pet tracking at a very low cost in spite of strong energy, coverage and size constraints that could not be met with any • The WhistleGPS relies on SIGFOX network other existing technology to poll the collar device and triangulate location information between base stations • Location accuracies in the range of 100m with cell density of 1-5Km or less Note: VISIBLE BENEFITS Secondary Connectivity SIGFOX’s protocol can be embedded without hardware modification in existing smart phones through firmware upgrade, thus enabling powerful additional features Synergies from cross-selling and new business opportunities are clearly foreseeable OPPORTUNITY SIGFOX SOLUTIONS SIGFOX Solutions • Need of connectivity when the device is out of reach of the GSM network • Necessity of a backup connectivity solution in the event of mobile network failure • Emergency backup connectivity when phone battery is low • Same WAN cells approach as the GSM with a communication protocol optimized for the loT • Embeddable into mobiles or tablets without hardware modifications VISIBLE BENEFITS Visible Benefits • New business opportunities for manufacturers/MNOs • Enables many innovative use cases (lost/stolen phone tracking, emergency SMS, etc.) • Network reliability improvements and increased customers’ satisfaction FUND RAISING > 27M€ ANNE LAUVERGEON Chairwoman of the Board Anne Lauvergeon is a French businesswoman and former Deputy Secretary-General to the office of the President Mitterrand In 1997, she joined Alcatel as Deputy CEO, before becoming CEO of Cogema, now Areva, which she led until 2011 In 2009, she ranked in Forbes magazine top 10 most powerful woman in the world NEW ROUND IN 2014 SMALL MESSAGES, HUGE IMPACT
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