LNX Solutions deploys rugged LoRaWAN devices for sporting events
04 April 2024
LNX Solutions provides self-hosted infrastructure as a service and tailored solutions to resolve IT problems in a creative and effective way. By building their own LoRaWAN network, LNX Solutions is enabling a wide range of IoT solutions across South Africa.
Connectivity during blackouts
Cellular coverage in South Africa can vary widely depending on the region. Local users can find it spotty and unreliable. Moreover, the country has been in an energy crisis for more than 10 years and is now in its sixth period of load-shedding – sometimes lasting many hours - in an attempt to ration power between the different electrical grid areas across the country and urban areas.
Senegal’s Free launches 5G in Dakar
02 April 2024
Free has launched commercial 5G in Senegal. The new service is currently available in Dakar, where the group has already deployed 5 sites. It will be gradually extended with the upcoming deployment of around 50 5G sites in other regions of the country.
“With exceptional speed and reliability, Free’s 5G goes far beyond just improving connectivity. It offers innovative opportunities to transform the business landscape in Senegal. 5G is an unprecedented opportunity for Senegalese companies to evolve, develop, but above all to innovate, an innovation useful to the development of our nation,” said Mamadou Mbengue, general director of Free.
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NRT and CCF rollout Africa’s largest IoT conservation network
08 February 2024
Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) and Connected Conservation are safeguarding Kenya’s most vulnerable species and natural resources with Africa’s largest landscape-wide IoT conservation network.
The project is advancing wildlife and natural resource conservation using LoRaWAN IoT sensors and networks to collect, monitor and analyze real-time environmental data on a captivating scale. This data is coupled with analytics and conservation tools to help safeguard wildlife populations, promote peace, and empower community-led conservation.
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08 February 2024
Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) is the main Government agency for wildlife conservation, managing approximately five million hectares of land. From 2020-2021, widespread poaching was seen in the parks because of a pandemic-impaired local economy and an absence of tourists in the parks.
Wildlife-human conflicts were on the increase. In 2020, there were more than 50 injuries and 60 deaths. ZimParks was in dire need of a way to improve the safety of park rangers and reduce wildlife poaching activities.
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