Engie was looking to test IoT scenarii where economics and practical reasons meant that certain assets could not be connected using SIM cards and 4g/5g connectivity. Instead, the company was eager to demonstrate the feasibility of using battery-powered connected devices and communication through LPWAN technologies (such as LoRa, and, at the time, Sigfox).
Engie had tasked Aloalto to work on two concrete IoT use cases: fuel tank and flight case monitoring.
Aloalto equipped a prototype fuel tank and a flight case containing computer equipment with a microcontroller connected to a cloud environment using LPWAN (low frequency, low debit) protocols, and developed cartographic web frontends to allow the customer to monitor the assets.
Both studies were successful and demonstrated the feasibility of using LPWAN technologies and cloud backends to connect and monitor assets in a cost effective way.
