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Drei partners with Actility to operate Austrian public network

According to Drei, the expansion of the network across Austria is progressing rapidly. The nationwide network provided by Drei will become the basis for use cases related to Industry 4.0 (including smart factories), energy companies, solution providers, smart cities, retail and facility management. Stadtwerke Wolfsberg is using Drei’s network for its smart water meter initiative, enabling households to stay up to date on their water consumption and costs as well as eliminating manual meter reading reports. The network targets smart city and industrial applications, including telemetry data transmission for heat, water, gas and electricity meters. Actility www.actility.com Hutchison Drei Austria GmbH www.drei.at

ThingPark Wireless enables Drei to monetise IoT connectivity and accelerate the adoption of IoT solutions at scale across multiple industries. It also facilitates the transformation of sensor data into business insights for customers of IoT services by adding data processing and exposure services to ease the integration with third-party business applications. bi directional drivers for the LoRaWAN device ecosystem and automatically implements scalable mediation con- nectors to all major data/application platforms, including Azure IoT Hub and IoT Central, AWS IoT and Greengrass, Cumulocity, SAP and ThingWorx. Drei is also connected to ThingPark Exchange, an IoT peering hub for public and local/private LoRaWAN networks and satellites. It supports Helium and Sigfox networks, currently connecting more than 25 networks worldwide. The IoT platform provides

Hutchison Drei Austria GmbH, a Vienna based telecommunications company serving more than four million users, is now operating the nationwide LoRaWAN network in Austria, powered by Actility. Drei is part of CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd, a telecommunications group present in six European markets plus Hong Kong and Macau. Drei selected Actility’s flagship carrier-grade IoT network server and platform ThingPark™ Wireless to operate the national LoRaWAN network in Austria. ThingPark Wireless is an IoT network platform solution for service providers rolling out national IoT connectivity services and solutions. The multi technology platform powers large scale LoRaWAN network deployments worldwide, and is designed for security and scalability. The modular platform supports the latest specifications of the LoRa Alliance, enabling seamless interconnection with other licensed and unlicensed public networks as well as LoRaWAN-based local/private networks.

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