ARCHOS enhances its IoT activities and joins the LoRa™ Alliance

ARCHOS announces today it joins the LoRa™ Alliance, the leading technology alliance for the Internet of Things (IoT) and low-power wide area networks (LPWAN). Among the other members of the Alliance, together with its partners, the French consumer electronics manufacturer, intends to deliver additional solutions compatible to the LoRaWAN™ protocol, for a wider ecosystem, in line with organizations’ technological demand as well as budget constraint. Headquartered in Paris, ARCHOS is a pan-European technology company that designs, develops and manufactures high-end consumer electronics: tablets and smartphones, connected objects, IoT network.

Unveiled late 2015, its subsidiary PicoWAN provides businesses with a turnkey end to end solution allowing them to focus on their core activities, while achieving significant RoI through their own private and secure network.

PicoWAN is a Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN), with bidirectional communication capabilities, offering a proprietary MAC (wireless network protocol) optimized for Pico-Gateways, with high connection capacity, sensors including a development kit, a cloud platform, data analytics services, as well as a customer application. This deep indoor network can be densified at will and is customizable to meet different security layers. By joining the LoRa Alliance™, ARCHOS aims to provide organizations with best of breed technologies compatible to both PicoWAN and LoRaWAN™ protocols, for well-balanced solutions at effective cost.

Benefiting from a long-track expertise in communication protocols and software development, which drove to the introduction of several world premieres in the Google environment, ARCHOS will unveil by the end of the year a complete line of base stations and sensors compatible to the LoRaWAN™ protocol, to service any business looking for a smarter organization, from cities to vertical markets. ARCHOS is currently building a network of affiliated partners and certifying their LoRaWAN™-compatible end devices and sensors. Domains of applications will consist in smart metering, consumption management, processes and costs optimization, in cities and vertical markets.