Orange has unveiled detail of its plans on the deployment of Internet-of-Things network using LoRa Technology that it announced in September. The French mobile operator said that it will initially deploy the LoRa-based IoT network in 17 French urban areas - Angers, Avignon, Bordeaux, Douai and Lens, Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Rennes, Rouen, Toulon, Toulouse and Strasbourg - in the first quarter of 2016.
At the same time, Orange is continuing standardization work on future cellular GSM and LTE IoT network, which the operator said will be operational in 2017. The details of the Operator's collaboration with Ericsson, the solution provider for this technology can be found here.
On its LoRa IoT network, the operator is working with Datavenue which features Big Data and IoT services aimed for businesses. Datavenue which features two new complementary offerings - Live Objects for connected objects, and Flexible Data for data analysis - targets companies across all sectors, from industry, services and smart cities to insurance, healthcare, distribution and transport.
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