Seattle, WA – December 5, 2018 – Soracom, Inc., provider of a leading platform to connect and manage IoT solutions, today announced the launch of the Soracom IoT Technology Accelerator Program, designed to accelerate market entry for teams and companies developing connected devices and services. Organizations selected for the IoT Technology Accelerator Program will gain access to a broad range of services from Soracom and partner companies aimed at speeding development from proof-of-concept and prototype stages to full commercial release.
IoT projects require expertise in hardware, software, networking, and cloud capabilities. While development teams may have a significant background in one or more of these areas, knowledge gaps are often roadblocks to success. The IoT Technology Accelerator Program aims to bridge those gaps by providing participants with access to the resources and expertise required to bring a project to market quickly, successfully, and at lower cost.
“Soracom was founded with a mission to build a more connected world by removing barriers to IoT development,” said Eugene Kawamoto, Soracom Americas CEO. “Our success providing wireless connectivity specifically for IoT use cases gives us a unique opportunity to help grow the IoT ecosystem worldwide. Through the Soracom IoT fund, we are already active in strategic investments supporting companies like resin.io (now balena.io) and Unabiz. Now, through the Soracom IoT Technology Accelerator Program, we are excited to be able to share resources, technical knowledge, and ecosystem relationships that support promising projects at earlier stages.”
Principal benefits of the IoT Technology Accelerator Program include: access to cellular and LPWAN connectivity during prototyping and early deployment; specialized technical consultation from Soracom architects and ecosystem partners; hardware development boot camps; product, business development, and go-to-market mentoring; introductions to investors with specific interest in IoT and devices; and access to a global network of manufacturing partners suitable to all stages of development.
Each participant will follow a custom-designed curriculum developed with a Soracom mentor. Company mentors will coordinate services, provide technical consultation, and engage support from industry mentors and Accelerator Partners including Breadware (prototyping and production expertise) and Carbon Five (product vision and software expertise). Participants also may consult about financing opportunities with the Soracom IoT Investment Team, which oversees a $50 million investment fund.
The first round of applications for the IoT Technology Accelerator Program is now open. Companies or teams with relevant knowledge and experience who are working actively to bring new connected experiences to market are invited to apply at: https://nsfznstn.elementor.cloud/iot-technology-accelerator-program/
Soracom is the market-leading platform for cloud-native IoT connectivity-as-a-service, serving more than 10,000 customers worldwide. Launched as a venture-backed company in 2015, Soracom was acquired by mobile operator KDDI in August, 2017, greatly expanding the company’s resources for global expansion. More information is available at www.soracom.io.
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Widely recognized as one of Japan’s leading IoT technology providers, SORACOM is breaking down technical barriers to IoT/M2M deployment with a cloud-based connectivity platform that is both technically advanced and affordable. The company uses a unique approach and architecture to provide secure data transfer at lower costs for its global customers and brings this technology to users across all industries in convenient new forms.
SORACOM’s SIM cards are tailored for IoT devices and can be managed through APIs and a web console, that allow convenient activation/deactivation of SIMs, traffic monitoring, network configuration and visualization, storage and management of data, and many more detailed operations in real time.
“SORACOM aims to use its platform to contribute to the overall growth of the IoT industry,” said Ken Tamagawa, Chief Executive Officer of SORACOM. “Current IoT connectivity providers do not really offer secure and swift delivery of services that are affordable and available for everyone in a democratized way. Connecting devices to the internet or the cloud is the easy part. Securing devices and data is the most critical. If it’s on the public internet, it’s hackable. Our customers connect their devices directly to the cloud, using a private network provided by SORACOM instead of public internet.”
Earlier in Feb 2017, SORACOM entered the LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) business in Japan with the launch of a “shared service model” that provides gateways to customers as a service.
The company has also built a global ecosystem of over 250 partners through its SORACOM Partner Space (SPS). Through this programme, SORACOM continues to deliver both technical innovation and business value to partners and their customers. SORACOM will now start welcoming new partners from Europe into SPS to further expand the ecosystem.
SORACOM’s SIM cards are available on Amazon’s European sites for small volumes and via user consoles for larger volumes.
SORACOM’s launch event will be held on 27th February at 12.00 (GMT+1) at Fira Montjuïc, 4YFN SORACOM Stage during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
SORACOM was founded in November 2014 by a team of cloud and telecommunication veterans and launched in Japan in September 2015. From the beginning, the company’s objective was to develop a communications network for IoT innovators across industries with the tools they need to connect, protect, control and coordinate their IoT deployments at speed and at scale. Today, SORACOM serves over 5000 business clients, from start-ups to SMEs and blue-chip corporations. With headquarters in Tokyo and offices in, Singapore, Copenhagen and Palo Alto, SORACOM is committed to providing IoT/M2M innovators everywhere with the tools they need to create a more connected world.
Company Outline
Company Name: SORACOM, INC.
CEO: Ken Tamagawa
Headquarters: Oshima Bldg. 3F, Tamagawa 4-5-6,
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Web:https://nsfznstn.elementor.cloud/
Inquiries regarding this news item
SORACOM GLOBAL
Spokesperson: Jake Martin
E-mail: [email protected]
Denmark – February 24, 2017 –OMNIFLOW, SA announced today adoption of SORACOM network and services for global connectivity and data management.
OMNIFLOW is a smart energy startup with headquarters in Porto, Portugal. Its main product, OMNILED, debuted in 2015 and offers an autonomous wind/solar energy platform for both urban and remote areas. At a high level, OMNIFLOW aims to:
Each individual unit has communications capabilities for real-time monitoring. Seeking a general solution to manage any or every unit was part of OMNIFLOW’s development roadmap.
OMNIFLOW has created the hardware and corresponding monitor and control platform that handles the communication between each OMNILED and the cloud infrastructure. However the complexity of ensuring a secured connection while managing the current growing data needs led OMNIFLOW to search for a long term, sustainable and M2M-oriented worldwide network partner.
“The data from our units is vital for us and our clients. SORACOM came to us with a cost-effective solution that is viable for every part involved”, said Pedro Ruão, CEO at OMNIFLOW.
“OMNIFLOW brings to the table a fully autonomous smart lighting system and groundbreaking vertical wind turbine with integrated Solar Cells. I’ve never seen a vertical wind turbine design with additional solar power capability. Awesome, this is the answer that various players have been looking for,” said Velipekka Kuoppala, VP Sales and Business Development at SORACOM.
SORACOM is the market-leading platform for cloud-native IoT connectivity. SORACOM provides customers and partners across industries with the tools they need to connect, protect, control and coordinate their IoT deployments at speed and at scale. More than 5,000 customers worldwide now use SORACOM solutions to bring their most advanced use cases from concept to market.
OMNIFLOW developed OMNILED, an autonomous smart energy platform, powered by an omnidirectional wind turbine and high efficiency solar cells including built-in storage for advanced IoT applications in urban or remote locations. OMNIFLOW devices are now in more than 14 countries using renewable energy to power Smart Lighting, Surveillance, Analytics and Telecom applications.
Company Name: SORACOM, INC.
CEO: Ken Tamagawa
Headquarters: Oshima Bldg. 3F, Tamagawa 4-5-6,
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Web:https://nsfznstn.elementor.cloud/
Inquiries regarding this news item
SORACOM GLOBAL
Spokesperson: Jake Martin
E-mail: [email protected]
Copenhagen, Denmark – 1 March 2017 – SORACOM, provider of the leading cloud-native connectivity platform for IoT, and Amsterdam-based MAGNITUDE SPACE, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to seamlessly integrate MAGNITUDE’s low power global area network (LPGAN) with SORACOM’s existing network and core infrastructure. The LPGAN offers global Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity at affordable cost, by combining the benefits of satellite with the characteristics of low power, low data rate terrestrial networks. Benefits are low cost, ease of use and world-wide ubiquitous coverage.
The strategic collaboration between both parties will offer SORACOM’s customers direct access to the LPGAN service via its existing cloud-based IoT platform providing a very convenient ‘one-stop-shop’ for procuring and managing IoT connectivity via GSM, LoraWAN or MAGNITUDE’s LPGAN.
IoT devices often require connectivity in areas where terrestrial networks (e.g. GSM or LoraWAN) do not provide network coverage. This is 90% of the earth’s surface. Traditional satellite networks provide global coverage, but their cost and power requirements are not viable for most mass IoT deployments. MAGNITUDE’s low power global area network solution will solve this global connectivity problem.
“SORACOM and MAGNITUDE SPACE think alike about making IoT connectivity a problem of the past ensuring there is always an IoT connectivity solution available, irrelevant of the application area and anywhere in the world. We believe that connectivity should be made accessible for everybody and be very easy to use.’, said Ernst Peter Hovinga, Chief Executive Officer at MAGNITUDE SPACE.
‘This is an important progressive step for SORACOM in our mission to build a sustainable connected world. SORACOMs core network technology is agnostic to any communications network. After successfully launching networks based on cellular and LoRa technologies, partnership with Magnitude Space will enable our customers worldwide to experience LPGAN technology in a democratised way’, said Parag Mittal, Chief Commercial Officer at SORACOM.
‘MAGNITUDE SPACE is building a network of nano-satellites dedicated to IoT connectivity that is much needed for low data use cases where there is no cellular coverage. We will jointly create a low cost ‘pay as you go’ business model that integrates SORACOM security and data management services for customers globally. The LPGAN will enable enterprises, developers and technology start-ups to build applications and commercialise their concepts in areas where this was previously unthinkable’, said Kenta Yasukawa, PhD, SORACOM CTO and co-founder.
SORACOM is the market-leading platform for cloud-native IoT connectivity. SORACOM provides customers and partners across industries with the tools they need to connect, protect, control and coordinate their IoT deployments at speed and at scale. More than 5,000 customers worldwide now use SORACOM solutions to bring their most advanced use cases from concept to market.
MAGNITUDE SPACE is launching the Low Power Global Area Network (LPGAN), an open platform to provide IoT connectivity for everybody, globally and at affordable costs. By providing easy low power network access to all things ‘out in the open’. Connecting things that were previously not possible will provide new and improved global insights, ‘helping all of us understand what is really going on in this world’.
Company Outline
Company Name: SORACOM, INC.
CEO: Ken Tamagawa
Headquarters: Oshima Bldg. 3F, Tamagawa 4-5-6,
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Web:https://nsfznstn.elementor.cloud/
Inquiries regarding this news item
SORACOM GLOBAL
Spokesperson: Jake Martin
E-mail: [email protected]
MAGNITUDE SPACE
Name: Marijn Driessen
Email: [email protected]
Tokyo, Japan – 15 March 2017 – SORACOM,Inc (Headquarters: Setagaya Ward, Tokyo; President and CEO: Ken Tamagawa), and , Preferred Networks, Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Toru Nishikawa, hereinafter PFN), announce that at the CeBIT 2017 International Information and Communication Technology Trade Fair, to be held in Hanover Germany from 20th to 24th March, we will carry out a joint demonstration using the deep learning technology developed by PFN on IoT equipment connected to Soracom’s network to showcase the concept of “Edge-Heavy Computing.”
The “SORACOM” IoT communications platform delivers secure, scalable over-the-air connectivity purpose-built for IoT, and supports rapid deployment and operation of IoT systems. With the cloud-native “SORACOM” platform, IoT connectivity can be effectively secured from end to end, integrated natively with leading cloud services, and managed directly via Web console or API.
PFN has strengths in machine learning technologies, including IoT and deep learning. PFN develops and provides software platform products that enable data analytics in distributed and collaborative manner to realize advanced intelligence in the fields of manufacturing, transportation, and bio-healthcare.
With wireless technology such as cellular line provided by Soracom, it is becoming easier to send data directly from the IoT devices to the cloud. However, considering bandwidth and data volume, there is still a challenge to continuously transmit large-scale data such as video and audio in real time.
The demonstration of this time is to make it possible to solve these problems by executing deep learning technology and analyze the data directly on the IoT device, transmitting only the truly valuable data to the cloud. PFN calls this technology “edge heavy computing.” By delivering real-time analysis at the edge, it is possible to solve challenges related to privacy and bandwidth, minimizing data volume required for transmission and discarding video data immediately after analysis.
We will demonstrate PFN’s deep learning platform “DIMo (Deep Intelligence in-Motion)” operating on “NVIDIA® Jetson™ TX 1”, a high-performance embedded GPU module. Then, we will analyze the demographics of individuals observed by a camera connected to “NVIDIA Jetson TX 1” on the spot. After that, we will forward only the summarized information to the cloud using “SORACOM Air,” and visualize it using “SORACOM Harvest”.
The merits obtained by transferring only rough information such as age and gender of the person captured by the camera and position information in the image to the cloud are as follows:
Booth number : Hall 12, Stand B 37
* Soracom will also exhibit in Japan Pavillion, Hall 4, Stand A 38, but the above demo exhibition will be Hall 12 only.
NVIDIA offered edge devices for this demonstration exhibition of “Edge Heavy Computing”
Mr. Masataka Osaki, NV representative, Japan representative and vice president of US head office
“As an AI computing company, NVIDIA offers end-to-end solutions from learning server side to deep learning to edge side inference.” The demonstration of this “edge heavy computing” will embody the deep learning solution and will continue to support the efforts of both companies.”
SORACOM is the market-leading platform for cloud-native IoT connectivity. SORACOM provides customers and partners across industries with the tools they need to connect, protect, control and coordinate their IoT deployments at speed and at scale. More than 5,000 customers worldwide now use SORACOM solutions to bring their most advanced use cases from concept to market.
Founded in March 2014 with the aim of business utilization of deep learning technology focused on IoT. Edge Heavy Computing handles the enormous amount of data generated by devices in a distributed and collaborative manner at the edge of the network and realizes innovation in the three priority business areas of the transportation system, manufacturing industry, and bio- healthcare.
PFN develops and provides solutions based on the Deep Intelligence in-Motion (DIMo, Daimo) platform that provides state-of-the-art deep learning technology. Collaborating with world leading organizations, such as Toyota Motor Corporation, Fanuc Inc., National Cancer Research Center, we are promoting advanced initiatives.
Jetson TX 1 is a supercomputer installed in a credit card size module. NVIDIA Maxwell ™ architecture, 256 NVIDIA CUDA® core, 64-bit CPU with very efficient processing power. It also has the latest technology of deep learning, computer vision, GPU computing and graphics, making it the most suitable module for embedded visual computing.
Company Name: SORACOM, INC.
CEO: Ken Tamagawa
Headquarters: Oshima Bldg. 3F, Tamagawa 4-5-6,
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
Web:https://nsfznstn.elementor.cloud/
Inquiries regarding this news item
SORACOM GLOBAL
Spokesperson: Jake Martin
E-mail: [email protected]
Preferred Networks Co., Ltd. /
E-mail: [email protected]