05 April 2016

The Arqiva Sigfox IoT network is already accessible by 30 per cent of the UK population across 11 cities and 54 towns.

M2M and Internet of Things managed services provider Wireless Logic has become Arqiva’s first UK reseller of Sigfox low power, wide area connectivity. 

Comms infrastructure and media services specialist Arqiva launched the UK’s first IoT network in 2014. The company says the partnership with Wireless Logic represents another step in its journey of enabling organisations to unlock the promise of the IoT.

Under the agreement, Arqiva and Wireless Logic will work together to introduce Sigfox’s network connectivity and solutions to Wireless Logic’s extensive customer base. According to Arqiva, Sigfox connectivity helps remove the barriers to large scale rollouts by delivering low cost, low power connectivity for IoT devices. 

The Arqiva Sigfox network is already accessible by 30 per cent of the UK population across 11 major cities and 54 towns, including Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Sheffield.

Arqiva says integrating this capability into the Wireless Logic offering “opens up a wealth of new opportunities” for businesses who previously deemed IoT solutions or services too costly or technically unviable to launch.

“The IoT holds vast potential for businesses looking to leverage the benefits hyper-connectivity has to offer,” said Sean Weir, director smart and M2M at Arqiva. “What we’ve seen so far however is that the IoT clearly needs a far-reaching, low power wide area network to operate across to make this happen – just like the one we’re providing.”

With access to more than 30 mobile operators and satellite carriers across the world, Wireless Logic says Sigfox connectivity means it now offers a complete range of platform solutions to organisations seeking one or multiple networks with a suite of managed services to deliver resilient and secure M2M communications.