MachineQ, the Comcast-backed enterprise IoT unit introduced in 2016, says it is now geared to scale up following an effort to reduce deployment complexities for business customers along with a ramp up of sales and marketing and tightening its ties to Comcast Business.
Heading deeper into 2020, those efforts have resulted in a surge of deployments of MachineQ's LoRaWAN gateways connecting to a growing array of low-power sensors for applications and services that include fleet management, asset tracking, smart cities, building and facilities management, and food service safety and compliance.
MachineQ's integrated LoRaWAN gateway.
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"We've gone from a very nascent startup to hundreds of thousands of devices online and growing," Steve Salata, MachineQ's general manager, said. He adds that those deployment numbers represent a 10x increase in the number of LoRaWAN gateways that were deployed roughly a year ago. MachineQ has also seen a similar increase in payloads onto its platform, as it now processes "millions of transmissions daily" for customers in the US and Canada.