Sigfox and Alizent Partner to Offer Industrial Internet of Things Services Worldwide
April 27 2017 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
Sigfox, the world’s leading provider of connectivity for the
Internet of Things (IoT), today announced a global partnership with
Alizent, the Asset Interactive Company, representing another step
forward in maximizing the benefits of IoT on industries across all
sectors. The two partners, seeing Industry 4.0 as one of the main
growth paths driving the development of IoT, will combine their
respective technologies and capabilities to provide monitoring and
tracking solutions of industrial assets on a global basis.
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Sigfox and Alizent to partner for
Industrial IoT Worldwide
Sigfox and Alizent are already working on exploring
opportunities in Europe and the US:
- Air Liquide: Piloting gas cylinders
tracking and CO2 tanks monitoring
Alizent’s tracking solution combined with Sigfox connectivity in
this pilot allows to collect accurate data from the fleet of
returnable containers. This information offers valuable insights on
the value chain and at the same time allows to provide
real-time inventories to customers. With the support of Alizent, it
is also considered to monitor the CO2 mini-tanks that are also used
by Fast food chains for soda.
- Tracking animal vaccine boxes in the
United States
Animal health vaccines contain active bio-ingredients that must
be transported with great care and under specific conditions. Not
keeping vaccines at the appropriate temperature would tamper with
the quality which, in turn, would result in a large number of
animals not receiving the proper vaccinations. Thanks to Sigfox
connectivity, Alizent is currently testing a tracking system in the
United States that reports container data. These metrics are
essential for quality control and traceability, leading to greater
efficiencies and new services.
- Tracking of Oxygen cylinders in one
of the largest hospitals in Texas
Large hospitals have the complex task to track portable oxygen
cylinders for inventory control and billing purposes. Tracking
devices installed in 300 Oxygen cylinders in one of the largest
hospitals in the Texas medical technology area have during the
pilot phase significantly reduced cylinder losses and rental fees
for customers while optimizing the supply chain.
- Preventive maintenance of beer
equipment on customer premises
Beer brewers seek to maintain a correct temperature for draft
beer or cider, a paramount for customer’s satisfaction. Alizent’s
predictive maintenance solution combined with Sigfox connectivity
allows beer brewers to monitor beer coolers and dispensers
temperature. This solution prevents breakdowns, expensive repairs,
waste of time and money, and ultimately sales loss.
Alexis Duret, Managing Director, Alizent: ‘We believe
that connecting all industrial assets will generate valuable data
for our customers. Sigfox, through its unique technology and global
network services, support and pricing, combined with Alizent proven
ability and rare mix of industrial and technological skills,
enables the connection of a whole new range of industrial assets
for our clients’.
Vincent Sabot, VP Sales Europe, Sigfox: ‘This partnership
with Alizent once again illustrates that the IoT space opens up new
and exciting opportunities for industries. Sigfox’s low-cost and
low-power connectivity represents a dramatic shift for companies
looking to reduce their costs and improve their industrial
processes, as well as create new services based on big data’.
The two partners believe that combining Sigfox’s connectivity
offering with Alizent’s knowledge of industrial customers will
bring a unique value proposal to verticals such as Oil and Gas,
Primary Metals, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Food & Beverage,
Agriculture, Chemical & Pharmaceuticals.
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SigfoxLaurence Collet, Laurence.collet@sigfox.comSimon Chan,
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