TAIPEI, Taiwan - Asia Pacific Telecom(APT), a telecommunications company of Hon Hai Group, yesterday announced an alliance of thirteen companies including IBM, Actility and Cisco to promote its IoT by GT platform. The platform uses Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) and 4G standard, supports the IBM, Actility and Cisco manage platform.
The IoT by GT platform contains hardware manufacturing of the Hon Hai Group and LoRa network constructing of the FHNet, its application developing and services will be provided by APT.
The main features of the IoT by GT platform are dual-network and multi-platform supporting. For network, it uses LPWAN standard to implement the long distance, low power consumption and low cost IoT network, in parallel with 4G LTE to meet the different needs of transmission. As for the application developing, it supports IBM Bluemix, Cisco Jasper and Actility ThingPark.
Lvfang Ming, chairman of Asia-Pacific Telecom, said, “Although there are a variety of IoT communications technology on the market. But in early 2015, Actility, Cisco, IBM and other industrial partners initiated the LoRa IoT alliance promoting unlicensed spectrum, low-power, long-distance transmission of WAN technology, it accelerates the development of LoRaWAN standard. Therefore, APT’s IoT by GT platform uses LoRa architecture.”
APT currently has 500 LoRa hotspots in Taipei, the New Taipei City and Taoyuan, it will be expanded to cover the whole Taiwan island in the end of this year. APT also declared that it will manufacture billions of IoT devices with its partners by 2020, to make Taiwan become a demonstration market of IoT and enter global markets with partners.
