The Product
Beautiful, functional, carbon-neutral urban lighting
Omniflow’s products are elegant, functional, and integrated into a software and hardware defined ecosystem. Omniflow’s products, by enabling customers to invest in infrastructure, piece by piece, makes it possible for every city to evolve towards becoming a Smart City.
“Our mission is to have a positive impact in the world, avoiding CO2 emissions and expanding digitalization,” says Ruão.
“Omniflow developed a patented hybrid system that allows to power its smart IoT lamppost with both wind and solar energy. Cities can replace a simple illumination device with our carbon neutral lamppost that can layer multiple services on a single infrastructure adding the opportunity for revenues.”
In addition to being carbon neutral, this lamp post functions as a motion sensor, license plate detector, smoke and fire detector, crowd monitor, or WiFi hotspot in addition to its core use case. As a replacement for a traditional streetlight, Omniflow’s lamp makes sense.“
Beyond its core use case, Omniflow bridges gaps between digital and physical worlds. Reporting dashboards, built on top of Soracom’s software-defined infrastructure, enables Omniflow’s customers to get the data that they need. With a dashboard, end users can easily see the status of devices and diagnose challenges.
Connectivity is central to Omniflow’s ability to scale and to ensure the integrity of solutions delivery. When it comes to basic services for a city, like lighting, surveillance or communications, there’s zero wiggle room for downtime. To meet the needs of its customers, Omniflow’s products must assure connectivity to devices with 99.99% uptime.
“We use cellular connectivity in 2 ways, first as an IoT, to communicate to our dashboard where we can monitor and control our devices and secondly as a service we can provide to the customer,” says Ruão. “Our development is based on two main verticals. The first focused at expanding our own products’ capabilities and the second aims to combine our solution with partners’ technologies adding new features to our current offer.”
“Soracom makes a robust, thoughtful, and high integrity product possible.
“Assuring the connectivity to our devices is crucial as communication is part of their operating mode. With Soracom we get access to our devices’ management tools and collect essential data all over the globe.”
Services in use
• SORACOM Air: smart connectivity for IoT