SIGFOX is extending its Internet-of-Things(IoT) network to Mexico with the launch of the service in Mexico City. Mexico City, with a population of 21 million, provides one of the world’s largest markets for smart-city applications, which Machina Research says will represent one-third of all low-power, wide-area (LPWA) connections in the country.
The French-based firm has partnered WND, SIGFOX’s unit that takes care of its network rollout across Latin America, and IotNet Mexico, an exclusive SIGFOX Network Operator (SNO) in the country to launch the service. The partners expect city-wide coverage by the end of 2016 and nationwide service availability shortly thereafter.
IotNet Mexico will focus initially on applications for utilities such as remote metering for water, gas and residential electricity.
As SIGFOX accelerates its Latin American deployment, which started in Brazil in April, Mexico becomes the 21st country for rollout. With these two countries alone, SIGFOX will be able to address 53 percent of the Latin American territory and 56 percent of its population.
Daniel Guevara, CEO, IotNet Mexico
As part of a group that is providing utility services to major Mexican companies and is deploying the first metering-as-a-service in the country, we made an extensive comparison of the available LPWA and cellular technologies and concluded SIGFOX was superior in simplicity, choice of hardware vendors and ecosystem support.
Rodolphe Baronnet-Frugès, EVP, Networks and Operators, SIGFOX
With the addition of Mexico, SIGFOX and its network operator partners are currently deploying the SIGFOX network in countries totaling one billion people, with one third of this population under effective coverage today.
