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September 7, 2016

Ingenu Partners with u-blox to Bring Global ISM Band IoT Modules to Market

Leading supplier of communications and positioning products announces significant roadmap investment in RPMA technology

CTIA Super Mobility, LAS VEGAS – September 7, 2016 – Ingenu Inc., the pioneer in delivering connectivity exclusively to machines, and u‑blox (SIX: UBXN), a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, today announced a strategic partnership that will enable the next generation of Ingenu’s patented RPMA (Random Phase Multiple Access) technology to serve global opportunities in the Internet of Things (IoT) market.

The two companies have agreed that u-blox will develop and manufacture products supporting RPMA technology. RPMA is a low-power wide-area channel access method used exclusively for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication on the Internet of Things (IoT). And, because RPMA utilizes the globally available 2.4 GHz ISM band, one radio module can serve applications throughout the globe, providing the scale and cost benefits to enable partners with a profitable option to bring IoT solutions to market. The u-blox modules feature extended temperature range and will allow for simple integration of positioning services.

“u-blox is highly regarded in the wireless module market, and this partnership will open a range of possibilities for our technology,” said John Horn, CEO, Ingenu. “Ingenu’s collaboration with u-blox will further the success we have realized in the IoT space, and will provide our valuable partners with significant advantages to develop solutions based on RPMA technology.”

With headquarters in Thalwil, Switzerland, u‑blox develops and markets wireless modules and semiconductors for the automotive, industrial and consumer markets. The u-blox nested form factor allows customers to maintain form factor and software continuity to easily upgrade their products with each new generation of modules. u-blox is focused on connecting devices to the Internet of Things and optimizing applications for machine-type communications, which enhances the synergies of the partnership between the two companies.

“The demand for low-power, wide-area network technologies is growing across the globe,” said Andreas Thiel, executive vice president and co-founder of u-blox. “We believe that Ingenu has superior technology to support growth of unlicensed spectrum technologies, and we are looking forward to a long-term partnership to address the needs of this market, while continuing to maintain our leadership position in developing products for the licensed spectrum.”

Launch of the first module is expected in Q4 2016.

Both companies will be exhibiting at the CTIA Super Mobility show taking place at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas, September 7-9, 2016. Please visit u-blox at booth #4845 and Ingenu at booth #5849. For information on CTIA Super Mobility, visit www.ctiasupermobility2016.com/ or @CTIAShows on Twitter.

About Ingenu Inc.

Ingenu™ is building the first wireless Machine Network™, the world’s largest IoT network dedicated to LPWA (low-power, wide-area) connectivity for machines only. Operating on universal spectrum, the company’s RPMA® technology is a proven standard for connecting Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) devices around the world, with 38 private networks deployed over seven years. The Machine Network will have further reach, global range and longer lasting battery life than any existing network. It is also future-proof: enabling technology solution providers to maximize their product’s efficiency and longevity, with unparalleled control and visibility. Ingenu is led by a highly experienced team and backed by one of the strongest boards in the industry, including veterans from Verizon and Qualcomm. Information about Ingenu can be found at staging.ingenu.com, or follow us on Twitter @ingenunetworks.

About u-blox

Swiss u-blox (SIX:UBXN) is a global leader in wireless and positioning semiconductors and modules for the automotive, industrial and consumer markets. u-blox solutions enable people, vehicles and machines to locate their exact position and communicate wirelessly over cellular and short range networks. With a broad portfolio of chips, modules and software solutions, u-blox is uniquely positioned to empower OEMs to develop innovative solutions for the Internet of Things, quickly and cost-effectively. With headquarters in Thalwil, Switzerland, u-blox is globally present with offices in Europe, Asia, and the USA.

(www.u-blox.com)

September 2, 2016

Is the cellular standard roadmap the answer to LPWA Connectivity? Pt. 3: 3GPP/GSMA is NOT Providing a Graceful Evolution Path for Machines

Part Three: 3GPP/GSMA is NOT Providing a Graceful Evolution Path for Machines

The 3GPP/GSMA folks may claim that their roadmap offers “graceful evolution” for machines, but we do not have to look far into the past to see that this has never been the case, and likely never will be the case. Let’s look at three categories of issues that run counter to a “graceful evaluation” and destroys the Return-On-Investment (ROI) of low-end machines: Sunsetting Risk, Fragmentation, and Machine Priority.

September 1, 2016

Is the cellular standard roadmap the answer to LPWA Connectivity? Pt. 2: Cellular LPWA Availability

Part Two: Cellular LPWA Availability

There are lots of pilots being announced within 3GPP/GSMA so isn’t commercial service imminent? The short answer is no. Pilots, as defined in this industry, are a short-circuit of the process. The original Nuel/Huawei “clean-slate” proposal (which is now defunct) had a number of pilots. Clearly, that was not on the path of offering a commercial service.

Despite vendor’s and cellular carriers’ claims that service is imminent for cellular, these systems are years away from a commercial offering. Standards and minimum performance specifications must be finalized, silicon and nodes must be productized, certification programs developed, and ecosystems must be built.

By contrast, RPMA technology is available today.

August 31, 2016

Is the cellular standard roadmap the answer to Low Power Wide Area Connectivity? Pt. 1

Part One: Introduction

Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networking technologies are attempting to connect 10s (even 100s) of Billions of currently unconnected endpoints. The cellular industry is aggressively pursuing an offering for Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) through the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards body. By doing so, the cellular industry is conceding that a new approach is required and that the current cellular systems (2G, 3G, 4G LTE) do not address the requirements of these LPWA devices. There are several flavors of the cellular LPWA roadmap including NB-IOT, LTE-M, and EC-GSM.

However, the cellular LPWA approaches are over-constrained and will disappoint customers for many of the same reasons that cellular technology to date has been disappointing to the customers.

August 24, 2016

An Idiot’s Guide to RPMA Development – Part 3

In the third and final part of this blog series, I’ll focus on building a parser to grab our data from Intellect and send it on up to AT&T’s M2X platform.

So now that our Arduino is pulling some measurements and sending them to a properly configured RPMA DevKit board (rACM), it’s time to pull that data out of Intellect and send it on to M2X. This part got pretty tricky for me, as it was my first real foray into Python. Plus, M2X is really picky about the data you feed it.

August 23, 2016

An Idiot’s Guide to RPMA Development – Part 2

Back in Part One of my blog series, I set an Arduino Yún to take readings from a DHT11 temperature + humidity sensor and shared the Arduino sketch I threw together to make it all work. First thing’s first, I knew I would have to configure the RPMA DevKit board to receive/transmit serial transmissions and forward those on to Intellect. The files & scripts included in the Starter Pack downloadable make this a pretty easy process.

August 19, 2016

An Idiot’s Guide to RPMA Development – Part 1

Oh hello there, reader. My name is Max, and I’m Ingenu’s Marketing & Content Manager, based out of our offices in Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the time, I’m a behind-the-scenes sort of guy: I keep our web properties humming and produce all of our video content. While I do end up getting my hands dirty on occasion scavenging lines of PHP code, I don’t have much experience at all with most of the commonly used programming languages.

So I don’t know what came over me when I decided a short while ago to get a very basic RPMA application running. Maybe it was the dusty box of sensors and Arduino boards I have had sitting around for a couple of years. It also seems a little funny to espouse the virtues of a technology without having hands-on experience with it.

August 17, 2016

Ingenu Announces Machine Network Expansion in Texas

Addition of Austin, San Antonio and Houston markets provides machine connectivity to over 50 percent of state’s population

SAN DIEGO – August 17, 2016 – Ingenu Inc.™, the pioneer in delivering connectivity exclusively to machines, today announced the expansion of its Machine Network™ to Austin, San Antonio and Houston, Texas. The addition of these markets to the previously announced Dallas/Fort Worth area network will provide Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity to over 50 percent of the Texas state population, covering more than 8,300 square miles of major metropolitan areas, along with tens of thousands of square miles of existing rural coverage.

Ingenu’s Machine Network is powered by the company’s patented RPMA® (Random Phase Multiple Access) communication technology, which provides robust, reliable connectivity across a variety of operating environments. Due to its superior range and capacity, RPMA requires minimal infrastructure investment. As a result, the three densely populated Texas markets are served by a mere 27 RPMA access points, which is magnitudes less infrastructure than would be required with cellular networks.

“Austin is a creative, innovative city where people come from all over the world to turn their good ideas into reality,” commented Steve Alder, Austin City Mayor. “This type of machine-to-machine connectivity will get Austin that much closer to becoming a truly smart city.”

“Austin, San Antonio and Houston are leading the country in growth and technology adoption, and the availability of the Machine Network in the region will bring exciting new innovations to market,” said Tom Gregor, Ingenu’s president and GM, Machine Network. “The addition of these cities will augment existing IoT applications in the area and will eventually result in truly ubiquitous coverage throughout the Southwestern region of the US.”

The Machine Network build-out is now underway across the United States, and will serve more than 30 major metropolitan areas by the end of 2016. The Machine Network currently provides more than 100,000 square miles of wireless coverage for a host of IoT applications.

For additional information on these and other cities deploying the Machine Network, visit staging.ingenu.com/technology/machine-network/cities/.

About RPMA

Utilizing globally available spectrum, Ingenu’s RPMA® (Random Phase Multiple Access) technology is purpose-built for M2M/IoT connectivity, offering unparalleled range, coverage and capacity with extremely low power requirements and longer-lasting battery life. It uniquely enables devices to connect more efficiently and cost-effectively in both the uplink and downlink. Requiring fewer towers to provide coverage to large areas (1:10 to 1:30 radio towers needed for RPMA vs. cellular), RPMA is rapidly becoming a global standard for IoT communication. For more information on RPMA technology, visit staging.ingenu.com/technology/rpma/

About Ingenu Inc.

August 16, 2016

Off-roading in a Formula One Race Car

Formula One: Built for Speed

Formula One (F1) race cars are insanely powerful and incredibly precise machines. They can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in as low as 1.7 seconds. That’s absurdly fast. Cornering hard in one of these boxes of speed can generate a g-force of 4 gs. That’s a jet on wheels.

But what happens if you take one of these fantastically built, and genuinely jaw-dropping F1 race cars off-road? It starts to look a little ridiculous.

August 1, 2016

The “WA” in LPWA is Wide Area… and Pizza

I would like to address an aspect of Low-Power, Wide-Area (LPWA) networking that is extremely important yet receives little attention: capacity. Capacity is a measure of how many devices a piece of networking infrastructure may support and/or how rich of a data model a network can provide to those devices.

Below are LPWA technology comparisons that either ignore capacity entirely, or use unjustified vendor claims that are often simply based on the amount of addressing space supported.

http://frankrayal.com/2016/06/11/comparative-look-at-lpwa-performance/

http://lora.multitech.com/white-papers/lpwa_white_paper_86003000_2016-06-13.pdf

http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20150907-lpwa/

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1328365&page_number=3

These comparisons spend much of their attention on supported link data rates, thus missing the point fundamentally on what a wide area network (WAN) is supposed to do. A WAN in general is not about delivering data rates to a single endpoint, rather, it is fundamentally about providing high-capacity connectivity to a large number of endpoints.

Here’s an analogy. When you order a pizza, would you be comfortable understanding a range of size of individual pizza slices you might receive (analogous to range of data rates), but giving the pizza parlor full control of the number of slices that they will deliver as well as the sizes of those slices (as long as they are within the stated pizza slice range)? If this pizza slice scenario makes perfect sense, then these “data rate centric” frameworks are for you. But, if you’re like me, and prefer ordering a pizza based on the size of the pizza, then you would likely be more comfortable with a different measure – one that examines the “capacity” of the system. Just as the size of a pizza is indicative of the number of hungry family members that can be satiated (or often over-satiated), capacity is a measure of how many IoT devices may be served by a network based on their data needs. We should probably have colored the circles more pizza-colored for clarity. As you can imagine, insufficient capacity means not being able to build a profitable network…or analogously, whether that pizza parlor can stay in business.

If you would like to understand the details behind these calculations, please check out Appendix A through C of How RPMA Works: The Making of RPMA.

On a side-note, I was surprised to see RPMA represented as inferior coverage in this framework. We work through the link budget calculations in Section 2.3 of the same document (How RPMA Works: The Making of RPMA) and make the point that RPMA has a massive coverage advantage.

Capacity Comparison

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