Meshed’s nCounter solution provides insight
into the economic and social impacts of COVID-19 on local
communities
Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of high
performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced
algorithms, announced that Meshed Pty Ltd (Meshed IoT Integrators),
Australia’s premier provider of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions
for smart cities, environment, water, energy, agriculture, and
asset management, has integrated the LoRaWAN® protocol into its
nCounter people counting solution to provide accurate and
anonymized people counting data for smart cities amid the COVID-19
pandemic.
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"Integrating the LoRaWAN protocol capabilities into our nCounter
solutions allowed Meshed to significantly transform the management
efficiency, range and effectiveness of the platform, as well as
increase the safety of monitored cities,” said Andrew Maggio,
Director of Technology and Operations at Meshed.
With the development of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, cities
consistently seek smarter applications to improve public health and
safety. Meshed’s nCounter is a cost-effective IoT solution based on
the LoRaWAN protocol and monitors population in a given space. The
Wi-Fi device collects anonymous metrics on the number of
smartphones in a given area and transmits this data over LoRaWAN
networks, provided by The Things Network, in real time. This data,
viewable on Meshed’s configurable IoT platform, increases city
safety by enabling managers to monitor activity at hotspots such as
shopping malls, parks and gardens, public facilities, and major
events. As a result, city managers and public health officials
efficiently monitor population activity, as well as gain an insight
into the success of social distancing and other public health
guidelines based on local compliance with these regulations.
“Real-time data on population movement provided by our
application leveraging the LoRaWAN protocol enables city
governments to assess the immediate and ongoing effects of the
pandemic on local businesses, the effectiveness of social
distancing regulations and simplifies the recovery process for
affected communities,” said Catherine Caruana-McManus, Director of
Sales and Strategy for Meshed.
In addition, Meshed, in partnership with the SMART
Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong (UOW),
recently utilized the nCounter platform to research the pandemic’s
economic and social impacts and published the findings in the new
COVID-19 Pedestrian Index Research Report. Meshed and UOW
collaborated with 24 municipal Governments across Australia to
collect data from over 90 nCounter devices deployed across
metropolitan and major regional city centers, tourism and
pedestrian hotspots. The project leveraged the data from the
connected IoT solutions to measure the loss of pedestrian activity
in cities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This provided
researchers insight into the mobility, economic and social impacts
of the pandemic on local communities and allowed the creation of a
plan to foster continued public safety and economic success.
“The LoRaWAN protocol’s long range connectivity enables flexible
devices, such as those in dense cities, and Meshed’s nCounter IoT
platform serves as an example of how these functionalities extend
to help communities manage COVID-19,” said Marc Pegulu, Vice
President of IoT Product Marketing for Semtech’s Wireless and
Sensing Products Group. “IoT solutions and Semtech’s LoRa® devices
continue to play a leading role in supporting effective public
health practices amid the pandemic and allow municipal leaders to
measure the safety of their community during this difficult
time.”
To learn more about LoRa devices, visit the Semtech website.
About Semtech’s LoRa® Platform
Semtech’s LoRa device-to-Cloud platform is a globally adopted
long range, low power solution for IoT applications, enabling the
rapid development and deployment of ultra-low power, cost efficient
and long range IoT networks, gateways, sensors, module products,
and IoT services worldwide. Semtech’s LoRa devices provide the
communication layer for the LoRaWAN® protocol, which is maintained
by the LoRa Alliance®, an open IoT alliance for Low Power Wide Area
Network (LPWAN) applications that has been used to deploy IoT
networks in over 100 countries. Semtech is a founding member of the
LoRa Alliance. To learn more about how LoRa enables IoT, visit
Semtech’s LoRa site.
About Meshed Pty Ltd (IoT Integrators)
Meshed is Australia’s premier provider of enterprise grade
Internet of Things (IoT) solutions integrating the LoRaWAN protocol
for the smart cities, infrastructure, water, environment,
agriculture, and asset maintenance sectors. Its mission is to
enable the adoption of IoT to as many communities, cities,
education institutions, and corporations as possible through the
deployment of affordable, secure and scalable public access and
private IoT networks. Meshed is a proud partner of The Things
Network, The Things Industries and a Member of the Smart Cities
Council ANZ, the IoT Alliance Australia, the Open Cities Alliance,
and an Adopter Member of the LoRa Alliance. To learn more about
Meshed, visit www.meshed.com.au.
About Semtech
Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of high-performance
analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms for
high-end consumer, enterprise computing, communications, and
industrial equipment. Products are designed to benefit the
engineering community as well as the global community. The Company
is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have on
the environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste
through material and manufacturing control, use of green technology
and designing for resource reduction. Publicly traded since 1967,
Semtech is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the
symbol SMTC. For more information, visit www.semtech.com.
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