07 Jun 2016

Maxxwave launches AmbiIoT: a UK mission-critical IoT network

Maxxwave has announced that it has launched a UK mission critical IoT network: AmbiIoT. Powered by the Ambitalk radio network, it offers coverage of much of the UK, with a range of up to 40 miles available from each transmitter site. Maxxwave claims that Ambitalk is the UK's largest PAMR radio network.

The company also states that the AmbiIoT network can deliver 1,400 data packets per second per transmitter site and this together with range and blanket coverage are underwritten by a service level agreement (SLA) with guarantees for coverage, capacity, latency and packet loss.

Unlike many current IoT solutions, such as Sigfox and LoRa, which operate on licence-exempt spectrum, AmbiIoT uses Maxxwave's nationally licenced channels, which are operated on an exclusive basis. As a consequence, Maxxwave claims that AmbiIoT users won’t experience interference from other equipment sharing the spectrum and should inference from other sources occur, Ofcom has powers to enter premises and remove the interfering equipment. Maxxwave also uses "sophisticated anti-jam technologies" to ensure business-as-usual for AmbiIoT users.

Maxxwave says that by using licensed spectrum, AmbiIoT can deliver “higher throughput with predictable metrics including sub-50ms latency”.

Intended uses of the AmbiIoT network include sensor data, telemetry, alarms, GPS data and any IoT application that requires security, reliability and availability.