Montpellier, France – September 21, 2021 – Quectel Wireles Solutions, a leading provider of cellular IoT modules and antennas, and IoTerop, a leading Lightweight M2M (LwM2M) software service provider, have partnered to offer IoTerop’s IOWA LwM2M 1.1 client in Quectel’s BG95 modules.
Integrating IoTerop’s IOWA into these modules offers benefits to Quectel customers in the smart meter, smart street lighting and asset tracking industries. Using low power wide area (LPWA) narrow-band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) and LTE-M networks, customers can deploy massive fleets of Quectel’s ultra-compact, ultra-efficient, and affordable modules.
“We’re very pleased to offer our customers the potential to monetize maintenance services and the ability to transform their businesses through our partnership with IoTerop.” says Quectel’s Product Director, David Wei.
IOWA’s software offers a number of important features for companies in these industries, including low power and low bandwidth device management. Its zero-touch commissioning which includes bootstrapping and provisioning, along with over-the-air (OTA) firmware updates, enables support for all internet protocol for smart objects (IPSO) and custom objects.
“As an advocate and contributor to global IoT standards through our seat on the Open Mobile Alliance SpecWorks board, we are proud to make IOWA more widely available.” says Hatem Oueslati, CEO of IoTerop. “It’s our commitment to creating these standards that ensures our products will have versatile applications around the world.”
IoTerop’s customers rely on our device management capabilities to reduce the cost and complexity of building, deploying, and monetizing secure IoT solutions for the smart metering, smart street lighting, and logistics industries, amongst others.
IoTerop’s Chief Product Officer and co-founder David Navarro is an Open Mobile Alliance SpecWorks board member working alongside representatives of AT&T, Ericsson, T-Mobile, ARM, Itron, and Qualcomm to shape the future of the LwM2M IoT standard.
Quectel’s passion for a smarter world drives us to accelerate IoT innovation. A highly customer-centric organization, we create superior cellular and GNSS modules and antennas backed by outstanding support and services. Our growing global team of over 3,000 professionals, the largest in the IoT modules industry worldwide, ensures we are first to market and continue to set the pace of development. Listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (603236.SS), our international leadership is devoted to advancing IoT across the globe.
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Contact: Ashley Liu, + 86-551-6586 9386 x 8016, media@quectel.com
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