The solutions combine easy-to-install battery-powered LoRa sensors, with a stand-alone cellular gateway and a cloud-based data analytics and visualisation platform and IRIS has designed each solution to be complete in its own right without the need for additional components of the IoT stack from other vendors. The company also has NB-IoT and LTE-M versions on its development roadmap.
For example, the company claims that its Legionella Starter Kit fully automatically addresses all organisations’ compliance and legislative requirements for the monitoring and control of water systems in line with health & safety best practice; from initial water temperature measurement through monthly report generation and certification to full data repository and traceability, with in-built alarms and escalations.
“Having more than 20 years’ experience in mobile comms ourselves, we fully understand the challenges in introducing new products to customers, particularly when that involves new, ground-breaking technologies,” said Stephen Westley, IRIS director. “And so, when we thought about how we should present our IoT solutions on behalf of the mobile re-seller channel, we knew it just had to be ‘out-of-the-box’, both metaphorically, in so much as each is a complete end-to-end solution and literally, in that it comes packaged, ready-to-install.
“IoT is going to be big business and it shouldn’t just be big businesses that get the rewards” said Westley. “Mobile and two-way radio resellers are a valuable asset in providing their customers with a variety of comms and IT services and should be a major resource in supporting these businesses with the benefits and efficiencies that IoT has to offer. In designing this program, we have developed a range of solutions addressing wellness in workplace and environmental challenges, occupancy and space utilisation and energy management. Easily understood, easily implemented, turnkey packages that enable the re-seller to easily engage IoT with their customer base and add to and extend their own product and services portfolio”.
