Weightless-N Open Standard IoT networks deployed in Europe

Nwave Technologies is collaborating with leading Accelerator organisations, Accelerace Management and Next Step City, in Denmark to roll out the country’s first smart city networks. This announcement follows the recent publication of version 1.0 of the Weightless-N open standard based on the low power wide area star network architecture and the subsequent Weightless network deployment across London, England.

Operating in sub-1GHz, licence-exempt ISM spectrum using UNB technology, Weightless-N offers outstanding signal propagation characteristics, leading to an excellent range of several kilometres, even in challenging urban environments. Very low power consumption provides for exceptionally long battery life measured in years from small conventional cells, and leading edge innovation in design minimises both terminal hardware and network costs.

Commenting on the new IoT networks, Christian Hvashøj Schaarup from Accelerace Management explained that “Nwave’s open standard approach is of critical importance to both commercial and municipal adopters. The Weightless Open Standard model provides reassurance to users that the technology will not lock them into dependence on a single vendor.”

Asked about a recent announcement from a vendor of proprietary IoT technology in Denmark, Jes Nordentoft from Accelerace Management commented “We are aware of this claim and it is somewhat premature, it is a proposal only. That proposed technology is proprietary and users would be tied to a single operator, with the operator referenced being little more than a startup seeking funds to deploy a network.”

Yury Birchenko, CEO of Nwave Technologies, described the networks as “A groundbreaking milestone – the first public network deployments from Nwave since the publication of the Weightless-N open standard.”