Toronto, July 31, 2015: Canadian company TELUS today said it had added more than 30 solutions to the TELUS IoT Marketplace since its December 2014 launch. From smart restaurants to intelligent stores to connected farms, the TELUS IoT Marketplace offered ready-to-implement wireless network solutions to help businesses across a wide array of industries become more efficient, productive and profitable, the company said in a statement.
The TELUS IoT Marketplace claimed to be Canada’s first and largest portal for IoT solutions. The platform housed an Online catalogue of turn-key IoT solutions curated from cutting-edge innovators and industry-leading technology companies. Functioning much like an “app store” for IoT, the TELUS IoT Marketplace enabled Canadian businesses to quickly identify and request a TELUS-approved IoT solution that could simply be added as a monthly charge to their TELUS bill; dramatically simplifying the complexity and reducing the deployment time of IoT technology.
“IoT has clearly captivated Canadian business leaders by demonstrating it has tremendous power to make businesses more efficient and profitable,” said Shawn Sanderson, TELUS Vice-president of Internet of Things. “By partnering with innovative Canadian startups, as well as leading IoT developers from the US and abroad, we’re ensuring that our customers have access to some of the most advanced IoT business solutions in the world.”
At launch, the TELUS IoT Marketplace offered 38 solutions and over the last six months, this had doubled in size.
Some of the new solutions recently added to the TELUS IoT Marketplace included:
Screenscape Connect by Screenscape – Screenscape provided easy-to-use digital display solutions that transformed any TV with an HDMI connection into a dynamic Internet-enabled digital sign.
Waste Removal Fleet Management by Focus – Focus offered municipalities a connected solution to manage their waste removal routes and fleet. Waste removal routes were individually managed to include correct sides of the road and marked complete in real time to provide a better view of a day’s collection and status. From viewing what was left to remove, to the amount of waste collected, Focus could help a city manage its resources more effectively.
Public Transportation WiFi by Colony Networks – Colony Networks provided rapidly provisioned Cloud-based mobile network software solutions. Their Public Transportation Wi-Fi solution provided any transportation company with a fleet of vehicles (e.g., taxis, busses and limousines) to cost-effectively deploy and manage a free WiFi network for their customers. The solution was currently deployed by TELUS and Yellow Cab to offer free WiFi service in Yellow Cab’s Vancouver fleet.
Network Connectivity Monitoring by Infra-Solutions – Infra-Solutions helped organszations optimise the performance and availability of their networks. In a business full of connected devices, a network outage could mean decreased productivity and lost revenue. Infra-Solutions quickly identified the source of the outage while providing wireless backup to keep businesses running without any downtime.
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