Australian IoT platforms scored two of the 12 ACOMM awards handed out at Communications Alliance’s annual dinner, and Sigfox network operator Thinxtra won the ‘Best Marketing Initiative’ award.
LoRaWAN network operator National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) was a joint winner of the ‘Innovation SME’ award for its IoT platform (the other winner was Coevolve for its integrated SD-WAN service) and Reekoh won the ‘IoT Startup’ award for its IoT platform.
NNNCo N2N platform: any data, any device
NNNCo says its N2N platform is an open, multi-tenant, converged cloud or server-based platform that decodes, decrypts and delivers data from all types of connected devices.
“It seamlessly solves the data to knowledge journey by ingesting any data from any device or data source from any network and converting it into a common format and structure,” it says.
“The N2N is access technology agnostic and easily integrates into any customer system or visualisation platform such as Microsoft Azure, Reekoh, Cisco Kinetic and Alibaba Cloud.
In February 2017 IoTAustralia reported NNNCo announcing a partnership with Actility, which had developed an IoT platform specific for LoRaWAN, ThingPark, that it claimed underpinned more than half the national LPWA network rollouts globally.
It was described it as a data analytics and control framework which exposes data from connected things to applications [that] connects with cloud platforms, and also offers off the shelf IoT industrial applications.”
Reekoh offers platform-as-a-service
Comms Alliance said Reekoh had been chosen for “developing and commercialising an original IoT data and API management platform-as-a-service and suite of tools aimed at solving the growing problem of complexity with integrating IoT solutions and enterprise systems and services.”
Reekoh says its platform has been built from the ground up using the latest technologies and development approaches, including containers, managed through open source tools such as Kubernetes, to increase scalability, portability and security.
“Our container architecture allows Reekoh to run across a number of deployment options (public/private cloud, on-premises and in the future, on the edge), independent of specific cloud vendor systems,” it says. “We are covering a wide range of industrial verticals, such as smart cities, utilities, agriculture, telco and environmental.”
Reekoh’s award follows it winning the Best IoT Product or Platform category in the Australian IoT Awards earlier this year
Thinxtra’s free trial for councils
Thinxtra won the marketing award for it Smart Council program. This enables local councils around Australia to discover the potential of IoT, and experiment with some applications.
Thinxtra provides Sigfox network coverage in a council’s area at no cost for 90 days and has partnered with a range of IoT service and technology companies that provide free trials to councils of their IoT systems that use the Sigfox network.
