Toronto, April 9, 2019: Sigfox Canada, the Canadian network operator for the Sigfox Global IoT Network, today launched the country’s first national low-bandwidth, Internet of Things (IoT) network.
Sigfox Canada is leveraging a low-power wide area network (LPWAN) technology, with the capacity to support millions of IoT sensors, and will benefit from a current ecosystem of over 693 different Sigfox IoT enabled sensors, to provide connectivity solutions from coast-to-coast throughout Canada, said a press release. The combination of the national network and hundreds of devices will provide Canadian businesses with simple and cost-effective connectivity to help drive efficiency in almost any area of their business.
Today, the network is “live” as far east as St. John’s, Newfoundland, and as far west as Vancouver, British Columbia, with coverage continuing to be added weekly.
A cost-effective, low-bandwidth, high capacity network, Sigfox Canada will cover more than 14 million Canadians coast-to-coast across cities, towns, airports and universities from east to west by the end of June 2019. Each network base station covers several square kilometers and is capable of receiving up to 10 million messages per day.