Orange announced a new collaboration with Taiwanese chipmaker, MediaTek to market Internet-of-Things(IoT) tailored offerings embedding ready-to-use cellular connectivity to address the growing industrial demand for connected objects. The 'IoT Booster Programme' aims to market a family of MediaTek chipsets with an Orange SIM Card.
The ready-to-use IoT offer is designed to allow professional developers to accelerate deployment of their connected objects onto the cellular network by removing the need to seek out complex arrangements for chipset and connectivity separately. The IoT Booster Programme is suitable for any large scale industrials looking to simplify their connectivity, as well as for start-ups seeking "out of the box" IoT connectivity for their product line.
Connected objects using this new offer will operate seamlessly across the Orange network and all of its roaming partners in more than 200 countries, said Orange in its statement.
The programme is expected to be enriched progressively with value added services such as geo-location, device management, data management and other IoT innovative features.
JC Hsu, MediaTek's Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the IoT business unit
This initiative removes a major hurdle for wider adoption of everywhere connected objects. Now cellular connected devices can be instantly activated like any other connectivity technology, and used practically on a global scale.
Yves Maitre, Executive VP for Connected Objects and Partnerships, Orange
We want to accelerate the ecosystem and unleash the potential of IoT to connect a myriad of devices.
