Swedish IoT operator Netmore has started rolling out its European LoRaWan infrastructure in France.

“The fact that we are now establishing our infrastructure in France is a logical next step in our European rollout plan,” said Ove Anebygd, CEO of Netmore Group. The French market offers great potential when it comes to future rollouts of smart meters, not least in the water segment. We look forward to creating the conditions for improved decision-making through data collection, and we are pleased that our expertise and proven track-record of delivering large-scale device connectivity for critical utilities is now facing the French market.”

Netmore will immediately offer LoRaWan coverage on demand for large-scale projects in utility and IoT. This means customers, partners and other companies that contribute to the transformation of a sustainable society can plan long-term to achieve a smart metering infrastructure that is cost-effective and reliable, and based on proven technology suitable for large-scale utility projects.

Netmore’s network expansion follows the need for connectivity, which creates the conditions for a competitive structure that with proven technology provides conditions for projects that run over many years.

This strategy has been proven in Sweden, Denmark, UK, Netherlands and Spain, where coverage has been established in parallel with a growing ecosystems of device manufacturers, platform developers and other relevant players.

Smart metering of water is a rapidly growing market in France. The need for improved digitisation to achieve resource efficiency is increasing, which was shown during periods of severe drought that hit the country in recent years.

With LoRaWan, a municipality, municipal company, water meter manufacturers and similar companies can increase measurability and gain enhanced control and improved insights into the water resource. This creates the conditions for improved resource efficiency that should benefit municipalities and citizens, while society as a whole can handle the water issue more responsibly and contribute to a more sustainable and eco-friendly development. Sub metering, leakage control and manhole monitoring are also offered for gas, district heating and electricity.

Netmore is building a network that puts partners, customers and end users at the centre. Network rollout takes place in collaboration with platform providers, developers and real estate companies.

This agile approach and partner networks are a vital part of the recipe that has resulted in Netmore LoRaWan being the claimed fastest growing professional LoRaWan in Europe.

“It is through strong collaborations that conditions are created for long-term projects that benefit the entire society in the transition to a more sustainable way of life,” said Arnaud Delprat, managing director of Netmore in France. “We welcome and look forward to initiating more strategic collaborations with French companies, to the benefit of communities and citizens.”

Netmore has initiated a major expansion of LoRaWan in Europe during 2022. It now offers LoRaWan in Sweden, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain and France. In addition, there are roaming agreements that provide coverage in Finland and Switzerland.

The network expansion, combined with Netmore’s European coverage guarantee and coverage on demand enables the deployment of nationwide IoT projects within each country. Furthermore, Netmore, and its main owner and infrastructure investor Polar Structure are also opening doors for large-scale societally beneficial IoT spanning several countries in Europe.