According to a recent announcement, Arkessa, an MVNO Service Provider for Enterprise IoT, has entered into a strategic alliance with Iotic Labs, which provides secure interoperability middleware for Smart Cities with a specific focus on Transport, Buildings and Facilities Management.
The partnership reportedly is designed to allow both companies to leverage their partner networks to accelerate and simplify the execution of smart city projects which are frequently impacted by the challenges of working with numerous technology providers, cross departmental boundaries, or conflicting business models.
Large scale Smart City deployments have been slow to materialize. Security concerns, integration issues and slow-moving Enterprises have been roadblocks to fully realized Smart City projects. Arkessa's customer and partner network, which the company brings to the new agreement, shows that businesses can flourish under service-oriented business models. OPEX (News - Alert)-based or Ad-funded strategies enable global Enterprises and Cities to incrementally build IoT solutions into their infrastructure and services.
“We are delighted to partner with Iotic Labs and welcome them to Arkessa's ecosystem of leading edge partners,” said Andrew Orrock, CEO, Arkessa. “The team at Iotic take the novel approach that IoT should be more about accessing the right data and building business value from a hybrid data strategy where they combine Enterprises' own IoT deployments and third-party data published anonymously and securely into Iotic Space.”
The secure interoperability middleware from Iotic Labs is designed to ease the data integration process at the Cloud or Enterprise level by creating an Internet-like environment for Things. This is Iotic Space where data can be anonymously shared or exchanged in a way that enables Enterprises to augment device data and databases with data from other Enterprises, or even from public crowd-sourced data.
“Arkessa is a leader in IoT and they have an incredible channel partner network which is already delivering value to Enterprise customers,” said Robin Brattel, CEO, Iotic Labs. “We are excited to collaborate and connect IoT assets on a global scale. An Iotic Labs overlay on Arkessa's current M2M services connectivity, security, location and eUICC subscription management creates an exciting proposition for many sectors from the Smart City to Industry 4.0.”