Telenor Group and Wireless Trondheim open IoT lab in Norway
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Telenor Group and Wireless Trondheim are joining forces to open a new IoT
powerhouse to boost innovation, build competencies and promote Norwegian
competitiveness. The IoT ProtoLab will be open to startups, developers and
students looking to rapidly prototype and develop IoT products and services.
Opening in early 2018, the IoT ProtoLab will be a centre for IoT research and
innovation, specifically focusing on next generation Low Power Wide Area (LPWA)
technologies and applications. It will also enable the exchange of data, sharing
of experiences and collaboration with ongoing projects at the Telenor-NTNU AI-
Lab. The lab was established as part of Telenor's initiative to prepare Norway
for a digitised future, contribute to national competitiveness, increased
innovation and new competencies.
"The people and companies shaping tomorrow's society are the ones that are able
to utilize and apply data in new ways. Telenor is committed to help build these
capabilities in Norway. The IoT ProtoLab will be a place for students,
entrepreneurs and startups to experiment and prototype solutions using next-
generation IoT technologies," says Sigve Brekke, President & CEO of Telenor
Group.
The IoT ProtoLab will be located at FAKTRY, the new community for ambitious
startups in hardware-centric disciplines at Sluppen in Trondheim, which opens in
November 2017.
To support the piloting and testing of IoT services in Trondheim, Wireless
Trondheim has enabled a city-wide IoT testbed and connected to Telenor's non-
commercial offering, Start IoT. This provides access to IoT devices, a physical
LPWA pilot network and a backend system, which enables prototyping and
developing of IoT services at a relatively low cost. Wireless Trondheim will be
responsible for the setup and the daily operation of the IoT ProtoLab.
"Our mission at Wireless Trondheim is to enable students, entrepreneurs and
startups to experiment and prototype solutions using next-generation IoT
technologies. By coupling our specialist competence with companies like Telenor,
we can create real impact and help make new smart products and services for the
future," says Thomas Ulleberg, Manager of Wireless Trondheim.
In addition to its Start IoT offering, Telenor will also provide mentorship,
support internships in the lab and will collaborate with key partners for
student projects and hackathons. The first official IoT ProtoLab hackathon will
be organised at FAKTRY in November by Telenor, Wireless Trondheim and Pycom. The
two day event aims to gather creative minds of the city's developer community,
startups and students to identify and solve real-life critical business problems
using next generation IoT technology, supported by experts, network access and
devkits.
Press contacts:
Cathrine Stang-Lund
Telenor Group Communications
cathrine-stang.lund(at)telenor.com/+4795872699
Thomas Ulleberg
Manager, Wireless Trondheim
thomas.ulleberg(at)wirelesstrondheim.no/+47 92 61 62 18
About Telenor's digitisation drive
In August 2016, Telenor Group announced two specific initiatives for
entrepreneurs to strengthen Norway's competitiveness and to stimulate job
creation by Norwegian startups. In collaboration with the Norwegian University
of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the leading research institute SINTEF,
Telenor unveiled it would establish Telenor-NTNU AI-Lab, conducting research and
running innovation programmes within artificial intelligence, advanced analytics
and IoT at NTNU in Trondheim.
As the second initiative, Telenor would develop and launch a dedicated, next-
generation Internet of Things (IoT) network in several Norwegian cities, Start
IoT, with low cost access to students and startups to test and develop their
products and services. Both initiatives complement each other as emerging, large
IoT data sets are of interest to projects in the AI-Lab. Today the pilot network
offering, which has been rolled out in Trondheim, Oslo and Tromsø, is based on
LoRaWAN technology (LoRa) but other network technologies may also be included,
such as the 2G/3G/4G, NB-IoT and eMTC standards. Currently, over a million
things are already connected to Telenor's mobile network in Norway. Newly
released LTE standards will allow Telenor's 4G networks to commercially support
IoT devices that have Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) requirements. Such networks
will be available for commercial use in 2018 and it is therefore key to start
exploring this opportunity today.
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Source: Telenor via GlobeNewswire
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