Kerlink partners to deploy LoRaWan and blockchain network in Vietnam

Vietnam is rolling out its first nationwide LoRaWan IoT community and Helium blockchain system.

Web of Issues (IoT) specialist Kerlink and good city and industrial park growth VIoT Group will accomplice on the undertaking.

The preliminary deployment section, together with roughly 350 Kerlink gateways, can be accomplished by the top of Might this yr and can cowl six Vietnamese cities and municipalities.

Vertical purposes

VIoT launched IoT smart-city purposes in Vietnam in 2018 with a LoRaWan street-lighting undertaking and has expanded it to vertical purposes akin to good metering by utilities, end-to-end air-water-quality monitoring, and early flood-incident administration techniques.

The corporate’s lighting-as-a-service (LaaS) and connectivity-as-a-service (CaaS) business-leasing fashions can be deployed by its partnership with Kerlink to allow Helium’s HNT blockchain and cryptocurrency mining in peer-to-peer wi-fi IoT networks. VIoT will distribute Kerlink Helium-enabled hotspots and deploy its personal IoT community on the identical time.

“Assume AirBnB or Seize for telcos: if I’ve an empty room, energy and web why would I not use it as a community tower?”  

“These deployments will make it doable for Vietnamese factories, companies, cities and shoppers to profit from cost-effective, easy-to-deploy vertical wi-fi options, and to make use of Helium’s international, decentralised community of hotspots to disrupt conventional telcos’ subscription-based working fashions,” mentioned Viet Nguyen, founder and CEO of VIoT Group. “Assume AirBnB or Seize for telcos: if I’ve an empty room, energy and web why would I not use it as a community tower?”  

“VIoT Group collaborates with companions and family homeowners in strategic places to roll out Helium’s the Individuals Community. Our aim is to be the primary to leverage this chance in Vietnam for firms and native governments that intention to profit from essentially the most cost-effective and extremely secured blockchain-powered IoT spine community.”

The second section of the undertaking will set up roughly 1,400 extra Kerlink gateways and is anticipated to be accomplished by the top of 2022 and canopy an extra 10 cities in 2023.