This new partnership will help industries better harvest the value of data
Paris, France – September 2nd, 2021 – Sigfox, the 0G network pioneer and the world’s leading IoT (Internet of Things) communication service provider, today announced its partnership with Coral, Google’s platform of hardware components, software tools, and models for building devices with Artificial Intelligence at the edge.
As further sectors integrate IoT devices into their activities, more data than ever is being collected and industry leaders are struggling to find fast and cost-efficient ways to transport and harness it.
To solve this challenge, Coral provides the technology to run a machine learning model locally, at the edge, without needing to send large amounts of data to the cloud.
The addition of Sigfox to the Coral Partnership Program will create room for innovation with the possibility to integrate the Coral Edge TPU™ in an IoT device, making it possible to run inferences locally and capture completely new information from the field. This reduces costs and minimizes energy usage.
Once the raw data is processed and its value has been harvested at the device edge, the Sigfox 0G network will transport it rapidly and at very low cost to the customer’s platform.
The innovations from this new partnership will be applicable to a number of industrial use cases such as smart buildings, traffic monitoring and anomaly detection. For example, Coral enabled sensors can help understand population flow in parks, streets, workplaces, or retail centers while preserving people’s privacy using local AI, a fast, reliable process which keeps user data out of reach. Feeding that data into a larger model can help distribute shared resources efficiently and improve incident response.
The combination of local AI and IoT can also come in handy on a production line, where users can extract data from long HD video streams and detect product defects. The cost to do this is typically very high but using Coral’s solution coupled with Sigfox devices and 0G network, costs and latency will be reduced, while data privacy is improved by enabling data refinement upstream.
“At Coral, we believe efficient AI starts with enabling capabilities at the edge. The Coral Partner Program is intended to expand the edge AI ecosystem with our partners to support a broader range of industrial, IoT and cloud-based solutions by enabling deployment at these edge nodes. The addition of Sigfox to our ecosystem does this by allowing engineers to leverage the Sigfox 0G network, making gathering and streaming the right data from remote, low power or low connectivity settings easier without having to sacrifice efficiency or privacy along the way.” said Ajay K. Nair, Product Evangelist, Machine Learning Solutions at Google.
“After signing a partnership with Google Cloud earlier this year, we are delighted to start a collaboration with Coral and are looking forward to developing new solutions that will help all kinds of industries harvest the true value of their data,” said Guillaume Simenel, VP Product and Strategic Partners at Sigfox.
About Sigfox
Sigfox is the 0G network pioneer and the world’s leading IoT (Internet of Things) communication service provider. Sigfox offers a unique combination of ultra-low cost and ultra-low power solutions enabled by a single global network, owned and operated by 72+ Sigfox Operators, enabling businesses to gain visibility and track their assets worldwide. With more than 18 million connected devices and 70 million messages sent a day, Sigfox helps its customers to extract data at the lowest cost of production and accelerate their digital transformation in key areas such as asset tracking and monitoring.
ISO 9001 certified and supported by a strong partner ecosystem, Sigfox was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Labège, France, with offices in Boston, Dallas, Dubai, Madrid, Paris, Sao Paulo, Singapore and Tokyo.
About Coral
Coral is a platform from Google for edge l AI. Coral is enabling a new generation of intelligent devices with a platform that makes it easier to bring intelligent ideas from prototype to production. The Coral platform offers hardware components for on-device AI acceleration in a variety of industry-standard form factors that, along with our toolkit of software, APIs and pre-compiled models, bring the benefits of performance, efficiency, offline and privacy-preserving local inferencing to suit various environments—from embedded systems deployed in the field, to network systems operating on-premise.
The Coral Partnership Program aims to bring together an ecosystem of hardware, software, and model development partners; system integrators and other reputable players in the Edge AI space to enable intelligent edge ML solutions across the industry through Coral integration.
For more information about the Coral platform, please visit Coral.ai/technology. For more information about the partnership program, please visit Coral.ai/partnerships.
