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Building the business case for satellite IoT

Envirotec Magazine

Eric Ménard writes The Operational IoT market continues to expand as organisations across the world imagine an extraordinary range of opportunities to leverage sensor technology. Charities are monitoring water quality across Africa to ensure remote communities have reliable access to safe drinking water.

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Funding for Internet of Trees

Envirotec Magazine

Seed funding of 1.8million has been secured for a large-scale IoT network to detect wildfires. Solar-powered sensors and wireless gateways attached to trees are the basis of the system developed by environmental IoT startup Dryad Networks , in addition to a patent-pending distributed mesh architecture.

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Booming the Africa Smart Water Meter manufacturing in 2023

Smart Energy International

Till today, LAISON is the only smart water meter manufacturer that has the complete smart prepaid meter series with different metering technologies like Ultrasonic, Volumetric and Multi-jet, and also communication technologies including LoRa/LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, GPRS, Bluetooth and Infrared, etc.

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Why water companies choose LAISON for smart prepaid water meters

Smart Energy International

Prepaid water meters are not a new thing, even in Africa, but most projects failed before 2010. Amid the development of IoT technology and the popularity of Mobile payment in Africa, manufacturers started to promote smart STS prepaid water meters with different types of communication options, such as LoRa/LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, Bluetooth, etc.

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How do smart water meters help drive revenue?

Smart Energy International

Smart water meters: challenges in Africa. Many water companies in Africa are facing two challenges. The concept of smart water meters has existed for more than twenty years and there have been many failed smart water meter projects, especially in Africa. Smart water meter technology.

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Gas sensor network provides early wildfire detection

Envirotec Magazine

A large-scale IoT network for the ultra-early detection of wildfires has been launched by environmental startup Dryad Networks. Dryad is now working on ten proof-of-concept deployments with forest owners in the US, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Africa. The “solar-powered digital nose” in situ.

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Ecosystems for good: How collaborator networks achieve sustainability

GreenBiz

One example of an ecosystem helping to achieve this global goal is RAIN (Replenish Africa Initiative), The Coca-Cola Foundation’s flagship African community program. RAIN’s goal is to improve the lives of over 6 million people in Africa through water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs, with a focus on addressing specific community needs.