SEATTLE and LONDON — February 21, 2023 — Soracom, Inc., a global provider of advanced Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, and Massive IoT service provider UnaBiz have announced the joint global development and launch of an LTE-M-based IoT button that utilizes Soracom’s eSIM technology and cloud-native smart connectivity platform. The configurable button, which the companies will brand and sell independently, is the first commercially available product based on technology collaboration between the partners, who have previously worked jointly on proprietary hardware and smart connectivity projects for specific customers.
Connected buttons are sometimes described as “smart buttons,” but what makes the LTE-M IoT button so effective is its simplicity. A single click or press sends an event over the built-in LTE-M connection to the Soracom or UnaBiz platform endpoints, where the real intelligence resides. From there, the possibilities are nearly limitless.
Users can configure the button to trigger serverless functions on popular cloud services such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. After registering the device a user can simply select a cloud service, apply a piece of code and associate a button click to trigger any logic deployed in the cloud. Developers looking to quickly understand and apply Soracom or UnaBiz platform capabilities can use the LTE-M button as a standalone device or with sensors and other devices (like a flood sensor or magnet relay) for more industrial applications.
Based on the code that users choose to deploy to their cloud of choice, the button can be used for any purpose. With the push of a button, users can order products and services (like ride hailing or meal ordering), start or stop a task (as in a home automation context), generate an alert, provide feedback, and more. Industries such as eCommerce, call centers, hospitality, maintenance, transportation can use the IoT button toautomate operations, streamline workflows, and improve customer service.
“The magic of the LTE-M Button is that it’s a very simple device, but its applications are limited only by the user’s imagination. Because it includes both connectivity and cloud integration, users can incorporate it into their own IoT use cases immediately on registration,” said Kenta Yasukawa, CTO and co-founder of Soracom. “It’s a very effective reference device for getting started in IoT, but it can also serve more sophisticated use cases, like connecting sensors and relays. Adding Soracom’s powerful platform capabilities lets the LTE-M button serve advanced cloud based IoT systems using serverless cloud functions, data lakes, machine learning services and more.”
UnaBiz, which was appointed as the new owner of Sigfox technology in April, 2022, has deep experience in developing custom design and off-the-shelves Low-Power Wide-Area Network technologies devices and sensors. With Soracom, UnaBiz is now pursuing LTE-M devices that allow enterprises and developers to easily integrate with existing business workflows and systems.
“Building on our deep knowledge of Sigfox-based low-power devices design, it was only natural for UnaBiz to partner with Soracom team expertise in LTE-M integrations,” said Alexis Susset, CTO of UnaBiz. “This collaboration has enabled us to jointly deliver a simple, evolutive and elegant IoT button which will last years on a single battery charge and benefit from the growing LTE-M networks coverage.”
Features of the LTE-M button include Soracom’s eSIM technology, a three-color LED status indicator, FOTA support, replaceable AA batteries, IP54 grade, and a recycled plastic casing. The button is pre-configured to send events to the companies’ cloud endpoints.
Customers located in the United States, UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Taiwan, Singapore, and Thailand will be able to purchase the Soracom LTE-M Button from Mouser Electronics, CalChip Connect, or Soracom.
For more information, visit www.soracom.io/iot-button/.
About Soracom
Soracom is leading the democratization of IoT connectivity, offering robust solutions specifically designed to make it easy to build, operate, and scale IoT deployments. Founded in 2015, Soracom now serves more than 20,000 startups, SMBs, and global enterprises across all industries, from agriculture, energy, construction, and transportation to consumer electronics, manufacturing, real estate, and healthcare. Customers trust Soracom for affordable, reliable connectivity that accelerates speed to market, makes it easy to connect to the cloud, and offers access to a worldwide partner ecosystem. More information is available at www.soracom.io.
About UnaBiz
UnaBiz is a proven global Massive IoT service provider and integrator that specialises in solution design, manufacturing, connectivity and data platform services across a hybrid of low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies such as Sigfox 0G, LTE-M, NB-IoT and LoRa, to power sustainable business growth. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Singapore, with R&D centres in Taipei and Labège (FR), and sales offices in Tokyo, Paris, Madrid and Holland.
UnaBiz owns the Sigfox 0G technology that connects over 10 million sensors for 1500 B2B customers on the global 0G Network, owned and commercialised by 70+ national Operators worldwide. The company focuses on Utilities, Supply Chain & Logistics, Security and Facilities & Building Management.
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SEATTLE – February 2, 2023 – Soracom, Inc., a global provider of advanced IoT connectivity, today announced that it has been named a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Managed IoT Connectivity Services, Worldwide. The evaluation was based on specific criteria that analyzed the company’s overall completeness of vision and ability to execute.
“We are humbled to be recognized as a Visionary in the Magic Quadrant for Managed IoT Connectivity Services,” said Ken Tamagawa, CEO and cofounder of Soracom. “Soracom’s sole purpose is to ensure that the companies and teams building new connected experiences launch quickly and succeed at scale. As a technology partner to innovators around the world, we are committed to delivering the connectivity, tools, and technical capability that keep our customers and partners positioned as leaders in their industries today and tomorrow.”
Soracom’s fully virtualized global platform provides full MVNO capability along with a powerful connectivity management platform, unified, “single pane of glass” management for connectivity options from cellular and LPWA to Wi-Fi and satellite, IoT SIM and eSIM solutions, zero-touch provisioning services, multiple secure networking capabilities, and advanced integrations with leading cloud providers.
Whether launching new products and services or hardening million-scale deployments, Soracom customers can count on leading-edge technical capabilities and expert solutions support to anticipate challenges in the field and effectively reduce the cost of operating IoT networks at scale.
Recent announcements from Soracom highlight both strong customer adoption and a clear vision for IoT that encompasses IoT-optimized hard technology and mission-critical business capability. For example, Soracom has:
• Demonstrated rapid growth and recognition in the market, surpassing 5 million IoT connections worldwide in November 2022, up from 4 million announced in January 2022.
• Broadened its eSIM offering by pairing IDEMIA’s leading-edge eSIM solution, called DAKOTA SMART, with Soracom’s cloud-native IoT connectivity platform. The GSMA-certified eSIM from IDEMIA is designed specifically to meet the needs of IoT devices..
• Expanded its ecosystem of IoT partners around the world with new members in the Americas and Europe. The Soracom Partner Space now includes more than 100 certified partners representing hardware, software, solutions and integration services.
• Introduced native support for satellite connectivity in technical preview to offer connectivity and full access to IoT platform services for deployments requiring SatIoT capability.
From global enterprises to innovative startups, customers around the world rely on the Soracom platform to connect, manage, and expand fast-growing and large-scale deployments across verticals including energy/oil and gas, consumer electronics, healthcare, payment/Point of Sale (POS), agriculture and more.
View a complimentary copy of the Magic Quadrant™ for Managed IoT Connectivity Services, Worldwide report to learn more about Soracom’s strengths and cautions, among other provider offerings, athttps://nsfznstn.elementor.cloud/gartner/.
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About Soracom
Soracom is leading the democratization of IoT connectivity, offering robust solutions specifically designed to make it easy to build, operate, and scale IoT deployments. Founded in 2015, Soracom now serves more than 20,000 startups, SMBs and global enterprises across all industries, from agriculture, energy, construction and transportation to consumer electronics, manufacturing, real estate, and healthcare. Customers trust Soracom for affordable, reliable connectivity that accelerates speed to market, makes it easy to connect to the cloud, and offers access to a worldwide partner ecosystem. More information is available at www.soracom.io.
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TOKYO — November 18, 2022 — KDDI CORPORATION and SORACOM, INC, a global provider of advanced IoT connectivity services, today announced that SORACOM has applied to list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Soracom joined the KDDI Group in August 2017. Since then, Soracom has grown its IoT connectivity platform to support over 5 million IoT connections* for more than 20,000 customers worldwide in industries ranging from energy and manufacturing to payments, consumer electronics, healthcare, and agriculture.
From day one, Soracom has made its mission to deliver a global connectivity platform that accelerates speed to market for the teams building tomorrow’s connected world and helps them to pursue success at any scale.
To further accelerate its own business growth and global expansion, Soracom began preparation for a potential public offering in 2020. KDDI and SORACOM describe this as a “swing-by” IPO, in which a startup grows with the support of a larger company prior to public offering, as if a space probe accelerates using the gravitational mass of a planet. With appropriate corporate governance systems now in place and demonstrated capacity for independent management, Soracom has now applied to list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Prior to any such listing, it is necessary to obtain listing approval from the Tokyo Stock Exchange and complete examination by the Japan Exchange Regulation. This application does not establish any specific commitments regarding listing availability or timing.
Company Info
Company Name: SORACOM, INC.
Address: 3F Ojima Building, 4-5-6 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Name and Title of Representative: CEO Ken Tamagawa
Main Business: Providing the IoT Platform “SORACOM”
Capital Stock: 3,727 million yen (including capital reserve)
Date of Establishment: November 2014
* Total number of SORACOM Air connections including those provided by international entities, SORACOM Air for Cellular, Sigfox, and LoRaWAN.
This press release has been prepared for the sole purpose of publicly announcing that the Company has applied to list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and not for the purpose of soliciting investment or engaging in any other similar activities within or outside Japan. This press release does not constitute or form a part of any offer or solicitation to purchase or subscribe for securities in the United States. Any securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933. If any public offering of securities is made in the United States, it will be made by means of an English language prospectus prepared in accordance with the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.
SEATTLE – November 15, 2022 – Soracom, Inc., a global provider of advanced IoT connectivity, today announced that it is now keeping more than 5 million IoT devices connected around the globe. The rapid growth—up from the 4 million that Soracom announced in January 2022—is being driven by strong uptake of IoT devices in energy/oil & gas, payments/point-of-sale (POS), healthcare, consumer electronics, and agriculture, among other industries.
Soracom delivers robust IoT connectivity solutions to the world’s most innovative developers, SMBs, and SMEs to help them accelerate IoT deployment wherever they need to do business, minimize risk, and ensure successful, scalable IoT rollouts. The company offers commitment-free, pay-per-use connectivity services featuring speed to market, cloud-native integration and secure bootstrapping capabilities.
Soracom announced its first 1 million IoT connections in June 2019. Since then, use of Soracom’s secure, scalable, connectivity platform has expanded dramatically thanks to accelerating adoption across industries and geographies.
“Soracom’s powerful horizontal IoT platform makes IoT accessible to a growing number of partners, industries and applications,” said Kenta Yasukawa, cofounder and CTO, Soracom. “As a technology and business partner, we help customers in virtually every vertical offload heavy lifting to the cloud on terms that make sense for IoT. As we reach this milestone, we’re truly humbled by the ways Soracom customers and partners around the world are building new connected experiences.”
Soracom’s next-generation IoT connectivity platform is device-, cloud-, and bearer-agnostic. It provides everything the people, teams and organizations building tomorrow’s connected world need. Using Soracom, IoT innovators can connect any number of devices to their preferred cloud easily, affordably, and reliably, with complete network control, anywhere in the world.
One such connected experience is delivered by Pocketalk, an advanced, handheld, two-way translation device featuring a large touchscreen, noise-cancelling microphones, a text-to-translate camera, and the ability to help people connect across 82 different languages. Pocketalk uses Soracom to keep consumer, business, municipal and professional customers connected to the cloud wherever they go.
“With nearly 1 million connected devices sold worldwide, Pocketalk needs much more from a partner than just a connectivity contract,” said Joe Miller, General Manager at Pocketalk. “From our first device to our third generation, Soracom has supported our growth with everything from eSIM provisioning to local breakout capability to IoT architecture consultation. We look forward to working together for a long time to come.”
For more information on Soracom, visit www.soracom.io.
About Soracom
Soracom is a technology partner to more than 20,000 startups, SMBs and enterprises, connecting more than 5 million IoT devices globally. Soracom offers robust solutions specifically designed to make it easy to build, operate, and scale IoT deployments. Customers trust Soracom for affordable, reliable connectivity that accelerates speed to market, makes it easy to connect to any cloud, and offers access to a worldwide partner ecosystem. More information is available at www.soracom.io.
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SEATTLE – OCTOBER 4, 2022 – Soracom, Inc., a global provider of advanced IoT connectivity, today announced it has expanded its IoT connectivity offerings to include native support for satellite messaging capability, allowing SMBs, SMEs and enterprise customers to manage SatIoT connections and billing directly through the Soracom platform. This capability is now available on a Technical Preview basis, with support available today for Astrocast, with additional satellite services to follow.
The launch of native support for satellite enables customers with remote monitoring, asset tracking and other use cases to “bring their own” compatible satellite hardware and manage all of their connections and billing in one place. In addition, users can integrate advanced platform services supporting device management, cloud integration and secure private networking into IoT use cases requiring satellite communication.
Native satellite support is a new addition to Soracom’s “blended” IoT networking offering. Soracom has provided native support with integrated billing for cellular and Sigfox since 2018, and, in July 2021, added support for Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and satellite via Soracom Arc. Arc lets individual developers, startups, and enterprises build IoT solutions using their connectivity of choice, with the unique ability to easily switch, add, or blend connectivity options as requirements change – all without rearchitecting applications.
Terrestrial cellular networks now reach 90% of the world’s population, but cover only 15% of the earth’s surface, according to Astrocast. IoT deployments in remote locations, such as those found in precision agriculture, industry, mining, energy, and maritime and other industries, require the ubiquitous network availability that only satellite coverage can provide.
“Soracom is committed to accelerating IoT deployments around the world and ensuring success at scale, no matter what combination of hardware, cloud platform, and wireless connectivity the use case requires,” said Kenta Yasukawa, cofounder and CTO at Soracom. “With the addition of native satellite support, we are empowering our customers to build new experiences around connected devices while reducing total cost of ownership, accelerating speed to market, and ensuring complete control over every connection.”
“There is significant demand within many industries for IoT deployments across the 85% of the globe that currently has zero cellular coverage,” said Fabien Jordan, cofounder and CEO at Astrocast. “Cost effective, low power, bidirectional satellite technology brings new opportunities for a broad range of innovative use cases. Combining the Soracom platform’s capability and ease of use with Satellite IoT gives integrators and organizations a chance to explore and develop a new dimension to their IoT deployments.”
Soracom’s native support for satellite-based IoT messaging is now offered on a Technical Preview basis. For more information, visit www.soracom.io/products/satellite
About Soracom
Soracom is leading the democratization of IoT connectivity, offering robust solutions specifically designed to make it easy to build, operate, and scale IoT deployments. Founded in 2015, Soracom now serves more than 20,000 startups, SMBs and global enterprises across all industries, from agriculture, energy, construction and transportation to consumer electronics, manufacturing, real estate and healthcare. Customers trust Soracom for affordable, reliable connectivity that accelerates speed to market, makes it easy to connect to the cloud, and offers access to a worldwide partner ecosystem. More information is available at www.soracom.io.
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Joint offering pairs IDEMIA’s leading-edge eSIM technology with Soracom’s cloud-native IoT connectivity platform
SEATTLE / LONDON – JULY 20, 2022 – Soracom, Inc., a global provider of advanced IoT connectivity, today announced a partnership with IDEMIA, a leading company in identity technologies, to offer innovative SMBs, SMEs and enterprises in North America and Europe expanded embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) capabilities based on IDEMIA’s IoT-optimized DAKOTA SMART eSIM technology. The offering is the first deployment of DAKOTA SMART in the United States.
This GSMA-certified eSIM is designed to specifically meet the needs of IoT devices, even low-cost devices with highly constrained memory, power and processing capability. IDEMIA’s eSIM technology features advanced low-power capabilities, including Suspend, Resume, and eDRX, making it more power efficient for LTE-M/NB-IoT services while supporting all cellular standards from 2G to 5G where available. It is available in standard MFF2 (5x6mm), ultra-compact plug-in card (2x2mm), and chip scale package (CSP) form factors with commercial- and industrial-grade versions available.
The cloud-native Soracom platform is also intended specifically for the needs of the companies and teams building new experiences around connected devices. Soracom’s global connectivity and industry-leading network management tools help to reduce total cost of ownership, accelerate speed to market, and ensure complete control over every connection in a customer’s IoT fleet.
In addition to the GSMA standard Remote SIM Provisioning capability, DAKOTA SMART is compatible with Soracom’s Subscription Containers multi-IMSI solution, which extends profile management capabilities to any Soracom SIM or eSIM connected with Soracom’s standard global data plan. This allows profile-swapping where multiple profiles are available without interrupting access to Soracom platform services.
“Many potential IoT applications have strict requirements in terms of highly constrained memory, power and processing capabilities,” said Kenta Yasukawa, cofounder and CTO at Soracom. “Together, Soracom and IDEMIA are removing these barriers to entry, making it simple for companies to build new, leading-edge IoT experiences for their customers around the world.”
“The ever-evolving world of IoT demands and drives innovation to help bring this connected world to life. We are delighted to be part of the Soracom journey as they expand their global reach and technology evolution. Utilizing our flagship eSIM solution, with its full range of connectivity options, form factors and dedicated IoT features, together we will enable new innovative solutions in this diverse ecosystem,” said Jason Rousseau-Hall, Business Director for IoT M2M, Connectivity Services, IDEMIA.
For more information on opportunities to deploy IDEMIA DAKOTA SMART eSIM solutions on the Soracom platform, visit www.soracom.io.
About IDEMIA
As leader in identity technologies, IDEMIA is on a mission to unlock the world and make it safer. Backed by cutting-edge R&D, IDEMIA provides unique technologies, underpinned by long-standing expertise in biometrics, cryptography, data analytics, systems and smart devices.
IDEMIA offers its public and private customers payment, connectivity, access control, travel, identity and public security solutions. Every day, around the world, IDEMIA secures billions of interactions in the physical and digital worlds.
With nearly 15,000 employees, IDEMIA is trusted by over 600 governmental organizations and more than 2,300 enterprises spread over 180 countries, with an impactful, ethical and socially responsible approach.
For more information, visit www.idemia.com and follow @IDEMIAGroup on Twitter.
About Soracom
Soracom is leading the democratization of IoT connectivity, offering robust solutions specifically designed to make it easy to build, operate, and scale IoT deployments. Founded in 2015, Soracom now serves more than 20,000 startups, SMBs and global enterprises across all industries, from agriculture, energy, construction and transportation to consumer electronics, manufacturing, real estate and healthcare. Customers trust Soracom for affordable, reliable connectivity that accelerates speed to market, makes it easy to connect to the cloud, and offers access to a worldwide partner ecosystem. More information is available at www.soracom.io.
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ThingsMatrix brings advanced asset monitoring services to Soracom Partner Space
SEATTLE (June 29, 2022) — Soracom, Inc., a global provider of advanced Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, today announced that ThingsMatrix, an experienced IoT solutions provider that offers full turnkey services, has joined the Soracom Partner Space — a growing ecosystem for building and scaling IoT applications to advance asset monitoring for industrial enterprises.
ThingsMatrix offers a robust cloud-based platform designed to simplify IoT development and deployment processes for enterprises. The company’s turnkey solution includes three versatile components, device, platform and cellular connectivity — enabling a full range of functionality from simple tasks to complex actions. With custom, off-the-shelf, or bring your own devices available to track and monitor assets globally, ThingsMatrix offers the speed, security and scalability today’s industrial enterprises need for navigating the complexities of IoT, thus reducing risk and accelerating time-to-value.
“ThingsMatrix’s versatile turnkey device solutions and service platform paired with Soracom’s reliable and advanced IoT capabilities is a major step forward for total asset management,” said Tom Burton, ThingsMatrix’s President of Global Sales. “This collaboration means that industrial enterprises will now have the ability to solve complex issues with an all-in-one, IoT solution that offers greater efficiency and seamless connectivity.”
Soracom announced the global expansion of the Soracom Partner Space in May 2022. The program now reaches more than 800 best-in-class members throughout the world, including more than 100 certified partners representing hardware, software, solutions, and integration services. Soracom Partner Space members help IoT innovators accelerate time to market with as-needed access to complementary, best-in-class solutions and services that are ready to integrate at every level of the IoT stack.
“Soracom is committed to democratizing the technologies that help IoT innovators accelerate speed to market and ensure success at scale,” said Nicolas Lesconnec, Soracom Senior Partnership Manager. “Soracom is thrilled to collaborate with ThingsMatrix to offer a proven portfolio of solutions to our customers and ecosystem partners looking to improve their asset monitoring capabilities.”
For more information, visit www.soracom.io/partners/thingsmatrix
About ThingsMatrix
ThingsMatrix is a world-class, global IoT solutions provider offering hardware, device management platform and connectivity. The company’s customizable and off-the-shelf solutions enable enterprises to simplify asset tracking, improve operations and reduce costs by remotely managing multiple devices and locations in a robust, unified dashboard. ThingsMatrix’s configurable and programmable architecture provides companies with a full range of functionality to securely collect, process, analyze and visualize IoT data in real time. Built on efficiency, versatility and affordability, the company’s turnkey solutions are designed to meet the needs of a wide range of vertical industries — from global leading operators to single contract customers. For more information, visit www.things-matrix.com.
About Soracom
Soracom is leading the democratization of IoT connectivity, offering robust solutions specifically designed to make it easy to build, operate, and scale IoT deployments. Founded in 2015, Soracom now serves more than 20,000 startups, SMBs and global enterprises across all industries, from agriculture, energy, construction and transportation to consumer electronics, manufacturing, real estate and healthcare. Customers trust Soracom for affordable, reliable connectivity that accelerates speed to market, makes it easy to connect to the cloud, and offers access to a worldwide partner ecosystem. More information is available at www.soracom.io.
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AI Dynamics brings high-velocity, low-code machine learning solutions to Soracom Partner Space
SEATTLE, WA – June 28, 2022 – Soracom, Inc., a global provider of advanced IoT connectivity, today announced that AI Dynamics, which offers low-code solutions designed to make artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities accessible to organizations of all sizes, has joined the Soracom Partner Space IoT ecosystem.
AI Dynamics’ easy-to-use and highly accurate end-to-end AI platform, called NeoPulse, is simple to implement for every industry, business and device. The company specializes in solving a wide range of business problems using AI, with a focus on healthcare, life sciences and Industry 4.0.
AI Dynamics’ entry into the Soracom Partner Space builds on previous collaboration between the two companies in Japan, where AI Dynamics has provided pre-built, fully trained AI/ML algorithm libraries for use with Soracom’s reference edge computing camera (“S+ camera basic”). These libraries let users rapidly apply AI edge capabilities to a wide range of use cases, from inventory management and industrial process optimization to parking lot capacity tracking, license plate recognition and more.
NeoPulse enables engineers to build deep learning models faster than using off-the-shelf libraries while handling dataset management, model tracking, deployment and monitoring automatically. This proven joint solution effectively gives end users a plug-and-play AI edge camera complete with an AI/ML algorithm that suits the target use case from day one with no custom code required.
Soracom announced the global expansion of the Soracom Partner Space in May 2022. The program now reaches more than 800 best-in-class members throughout the world, including more than 100 certified partners representing hardware, software, solutions and integration services. Soracom Partner Space members help IoT innovators accelerate time to market with as-needed access to complementary, best-in-class solutions and services that are ready to integrate at every level of the IoT stack.
“Running artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms at the edge is a crucial capability for IoT, but very few customers have the tools today to develop ML systems, train models and deploy, manage, or maintain AI edge devices,” said Kenta Yasukawa, co-founder and CTO at Soracom. “Combining AI Dynamics’ strong algorithm libraries and ML expertise with Soracom’s connectivity and edge device management platform lets IoT innovators offload undifferentiated heavy lifting and focus on bringing new products and services to market quickly and operating efficiently at scale.”
“Our founding belief remains that everyone should have access to the undisputed power of AI,” Rajeev Dutt, Founder and CEO of AI Dynamics, said. “We are extremely pleased with the ongoing partnered work happening in Japan, and we’re looking forward to offering the fruits of that labor to all Soracom customers and Partner Space members.”
For more information, visit https://nsfznstn.elementor.cloud/partners/ai-dynamics/
About Soracom
Soracom is leading the democratization of IoT connectivity, offering robust solutions specifically designed to make it easy to build, operate, and scale IoT deployments. Founded in 2015, Soracom now serves more than 20,000 startups, SMBs and global enterprises across all industries, from agriculture, energy, construction and transportation to consumer electronics, manufacturing, real estate and healthcare. Customers trust Soracom for affordable, reliable connectivity that accelerates speed to market, makes it easy to connect to the cloud, and offers access to a worldwide partner ecosystem. More information is available at www.soracom.io.
About AI Dynamics
AI Dynamics aims to make artificial intelligence (AI) accessible to organizations of all sizes. The company’s NeoPulse® Framework is an intuitive development and management platform for AI, which enables companies to develop and implement deep neural networks and other machine learning models that can improve key performance metrics. The company’s team brings decades of experience in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence from leading companies and research organizations. For more information, please visit aidynamics.com.
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SEATTLE and LONDON – June 7, 2022 – Soracom, Inc., a global provider of advanced IoT connectivity, today announced that SPRESENSE™ from Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (hereafter “SSS”) has joined the Soracom Partner Space ecosystem and SSS identified Soracom as a recommended provider of connectivity for its SPRESENSE microcontrollers.
SSS’s SPRESENSE 6-core microcontroller board is ideal for professional IoT use cases, with a streamlined form factor, ultra-low power consumption, multiple sensor inputs, internal GPS, and edge AI support. The unique combination of solid computing performance and advanced power efficiency makes SPRESENSE suitable for edge computing. SPRESENSE is featured in applications where there is a need for sensor analysis, machine learning, image processing and data filtering in which other microcontroller-based alternatives fall short.
SSS’s SPRESENSE LTE extension board offers an on-board antenna for global LTE Cat-M1 connectivity. Combined with Soracom’s global IoT connectivity, SSS’s SPRESENSE LTE extension board makes it easy to connect almost anywhere in the world, control connections through the Soracom console and API, and access a wide range of services supporting secure private networking, data and protocol management, and integration with leading cloud platforms.
“Collaboration with Soracom enables global connectivity to our IoT SPRESENSE solution, providing an out-of-the-box experience that ensures our customers can be dedicated to driving innovative IoT solutions, especially for Edge AI applications,” said Kenichi Nakano, General Manager, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation.
Supporting more than 4 million connections with global IoT coverage in more than 160 countries, Soracom offers a portfolio of powerful connectivity solutions that help IoT deployments connect securely and easily to leading hyperscaler platforms, reduce data and power requirements, and manage total cost of ownership at scale.
The Soracom Partner Space enables partners to access live opportunities and technical collaborations to provide services to IoT innovators around the world. In turn, customers are able to find trusted partners who will help them bring solutions to market and scale more quickly, create differentiators, and simplify the IoT journey. Soracom Partner Space partners have supported many of the projects behind Soracom’s expansion.
Soracom now offers the SPRESENSE LTE-M IoT Connectivity Kit in its online store. The package also includes the official LTE Extension board for SPRESENSE, a Soracom IoT SIM card, and access to Soracom connectivity and platform services.
“Soracom is committed to partnering with leaders in hardware, software, and services to offer customers a robust global ecosystem that accelerates speed to market and success at scale,” said Kenta Yasukawa, co-founder and CTO, Soracom. “Sony’s SPRESENSE offers IoT innovators an exceptional platform for the creation of new connected experiences that take full advantage of edge and the cloud.”
For more information on the SPRESENSE LTE-M IoT Connectivity Kit or to purchase, visit the Soracom store or the SPRESENSE webpage.
SPRESENSE is a trademark of Sony Group Corporation.
About SPRESENSE™
SPRESENSE is a low-power board computer for the IoT that is equipped with a GPS receiver and supports High-Resolution Audio codecs. The board allows for IoT versatility and can be developed for a vast range of uses, such as a drone utilizing the GPS and high-performance processor, a smart speaker utilizing High-Resolution Audio recording and playback as well as the built-in full-digital amplifier, or a low-power time-lapse camera utilizing the camera interface. SPRESENSE will make the IoT smarter and more efficient.
About Soracom
Soracom is leading the democratization of IoT connectivity, offering robust solutions specifically designed to make it easy to build, operate, and scale IoT deployments. Founded in 2015, Soracom now serves more than 20,000 startups, SMBs and global enterprises across all industries, from agriculture, energy, construction and transportation to consumer electronics, manufacturing, real estate and healthcare. Customers trust Soracom for affordable, reliable connectivity that accelerates speed to market, makes it easy to connect to the cloud, and offers access to a worldwide partner ecosystem. More information is available at www.soracom.io.
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