National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) has unveiled its N2N-DL data platform at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona after being selected to showcase the offering on the global LoRa Alliance stand.
The platform is based on the ThingPark IoT platform developed by French company Actility specifically for LoRaWAN, and claimed to underpin more than half the national LPWA network rollouts globally.
NNNCo has been developing it since February 2017 when it announced its partnership with Actility to build what it said would be “Australia’s first industrial IoT network.”
Super-fast scalable middleware
NNNCo describes the platform as “super-fast, highly scalable and lightweight middleware that aggregates data and users from multiple network technologies into a single platform, enabling ease and protection of data and removing key barriers of IoT adoption.”
NNNCo founder & CEO Rob Zagarella said the network would enable users to focus on leveraging their data instead of having to manage their data.
“N2N-DL is pioneering because it takes a feed from any data or transmission source, removes the complexity of protocol ingestion and translation, and applies a common language by converting it into a simple restful API.
“Essentially it removes the complexity of building and deploying enterprise IoT applications at scale which is necessary to accelerate market adoption in Australia and globally.”
Enabler of the entire IoT ecosystem
NNNCo says the N2N-DL data platform is not designed to be a competitor to any analytics or visualisation platform, device manufacturer or transmission technology. Rather: “is an enabler of the entire IoT ecosystem.”
It says a number of NNNCo customers have already standardised on the platform including some of the largest local government councils in Australia.
Zagarella said: “What we’ve seen over the past 24 months is that enterprises often have a device, the means for transmission and an application platform but the protocols and their platform won’t talk to each other natively.
“Connecting one or two devices and decoding and decrypting the data from them is relatively simple, but when this becomes hundreds, thousands, or indeed millions of devices a new solution is required.”
Distribution by Dicker Data
The platform has also been selected by Australian IT distributor Dicker Data, to be part of its core IoT product for its 5,000-strong reseller network.
Dicker Data’s general manager of services and IoT, Jason Hall, said: “NNNCo’s data platform connects the dots between all the ecosystem parts from network providers, solution providers, platform providers, systems integrators and resellers right through to end users.”
