PARIS and REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 15 – A global news release announcing Microsoft’s addition to the board of the LoRa Alliance hails the role that Microshare’s EverSmart solutions are playing in expanding the Azure IoT ecosystem on LoRaWAN.
The LoRa Alliance®, the Paris-based global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® standard for the Internet of Things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), has named Tony Shakib, general manager/partner of Azure IoT Engineering at Microsoft, as a new addition to the LoRa Alliance board of directors.
Microsoft is widely considered a hyperscaler for LoRaWAN, and its participation in the alliance can strengthen the technology’s presence in the LPWAN market. Microshare has been a member of the alliance since 2017 and our EverSmart suite of Smart Building solutions use the LoRaWAN networking protocol to provide secure, quick-to-deploy data backhaul to the Azure cloud.
The release notes that Microsoft already is working with Microshare and other partners to deploy IoT solutions for Smart Buildings, sustainability and other use cases globally.
“Microsoft has invested billions of dollars to enable customers to build digital twins of the physical world,” said Shakib. “The digital twin enables customers to analyze, predict and control environments across industries, whether monitoring production lines, managing worker safety, optimizing supply chains or delighting retail customers. A critical link in these digital transformations is the connectivity fabric, and LoRaWAN has unique capabilities to help fulfill that vision. We are excited to join the LoRa Alliance and deepen our collaboration with members to help our customers succeed in IoT.”
The release goes on to highlight Microshare’s broad range of data solutions, each of which brings hard financial ROI as well as performance, wellness and sustainability outcomes much in demand amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. These include Universal Contact Tracing wearables, Indoor Air Quality Monitoring, Predictive Cleaning and many others. The release states:
- Microshare EverSmart on Azure/LoRaWAN delivers over 20 IoT Sensing-as-a-Service solutions for Smart Spaces to global customers in any industry, especially corporate office, manufacturing and health care. With data stream endpoints to IoT Hub, Power BI, and IoT Central, EverSmart customers can take full advantage of Azure Cloud Services including Stream Analytics, Databricks and Digital Twins to gain intelligence and make insightful decisions that improve their business and enhance the experience of the people using the space. Because of the ease of deploying LoRaWAN on Azure, the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in London quickly installed a solution portfolio that includes asset zoning and occupancy as well as monitoring for environment, CO2, fridge and water temperature to get a consolidated view of conditions and equipment locations in their space. “Thanks to BT and Microshare, we are now able to automate many tasks that would have previously taken considerable time or effort to carry out,” said Toby Roberts, CIO of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability. “This technology has been extremely useful during the current pandemic, as it has allowed our staff to perform more efficiently under heightened pressures.”
The full release is available on business news sites around thee world and can be read here.
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