{"id":28445,"date":"2015-02-11T08:51:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T07:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=28445"},"modified":"2015-02-11T08:51:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T07:51:44","slug":"sigfox-raises-e100-million-telefonica-gdf-suez-ntt-docomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2015\/02\/sigfox-raises-e100-million-telefonica-gdf-suez-ntt-docomo\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGFOX raises \u20ac100 Million from Telefonica, GDF Suez, NTT Docomo &amp; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/54d8ab089dd758043771bdd4_Connected-Conference-Day-1-Image-by-Dan-Taylor-dan@heisenbergmedia.com-21.jpg\" alt=\"SIGFOX\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" \/><br \/>\nInternet of Things network operator SIGFOX has\u00a0raised a \u20ac100 Million Series C from\u00a0a wide range of investors, including industrial players (GDF Suez, Air Liquide), Telecom companies (Telefonica, SK Telekom, NTT Docomo) &amp; Hedge Funds (Elliott Management). The fundraising\u00a0comes just months after CEO &amp; Co-Founder Ludovic Le Moan announced the round publicly, and will allow the company to expand its telecom network, which currently covers France, Spain, the Netherlands &amp; parts of the UK, to 60 countries in the coming 5 years.<br \/>\nSIGFOX, a Founding Partner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/connectedconference.co\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connected Conference<\/a>, uses low-energy data transmission embedded inside the firmware of IoT devices to transmit small packets of data across repurposed 2G networks;\u00a0debates in the past concerning the viability at scale of this technology\u00a0should be calmed, when looking at the list of Telecom companies investing in SIGFOX.<br \/>\nSIGFOX\u00a0works with partners, like Securitas Direct in Spain, where it has equipped several million homes with anti-intrusion alarms, licensing out its technology for a flat fee per device plus an annual fee for data transmission. Data bandwidth and frequency of transmission are limited in order to conserve battery life and network stability, and, while currently data can only be sent from objects to the network, rumor has it that some clients are already working with a beta\u00a0product that will allow two-way transmission. This means remote updates, network communication to devices, and many more possibilities for connected hardware manufacturers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet of Things network operator SIGFOX has\u00a0raised a \u20ac100 Million Series C from\u00a0a wide range of investors, including industrial players (GDF Suez, Air Liquide), Telecom companies (Telefonica, SK Telekom, NTT Docomo) &amp; Hedge Funds (Elliott Management). The fundraising\u00a0comes just months after CEO &amp; Co-Founder Ludovic Le Moan announced the round publicly, and will allow the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":64799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}