Spark has partnered with Actility to build a LoRa IoT network across the country by 2018, with plans to also construct narrowband and LTE-M1 mobile-based IoT networks.
New Zealand telecommunications carrier Spark has announced that it has begun constructing a nationwide low-power, wide-area Internet of Things (IoT) network.
Spark said it has partnered with Actility and Kordia on designing and building the network, with a “significant proportion” to be operational as of June 2018.
The IoT network marks Spark’s intent to “take a leadership position in IoT”, IoT GM Michael Stribling said.
“We already have a lot of capabilities needed to make the most of a more connected world — we have the world-class network, we have the platforms, and we have the big data analytics power of Qrious to make sense of the torrent of information that will be created from networks of sensors connecting the things around us,” Stribling added.