Taoglas announced at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Los Angeles three business units covering advanced components, OEM IoT and connected smart services.

Taoglas is highlighting its integrated service offering across IoT design, engineering, manufacturing, production and managed services.

The connected smart services business was created following the recent acquisition of Smartsensor Technologies. The business unit aims to further Taoglas’ position as an IoT provider for enterprises and municipalities by providing IoT services that help cities, enterprises and people live a better, more efficient life.

The connected smart services division provides end-to-end smart asset management for smart cities deployments and enterprises. Through a combination of hardware and software powered by cloud integrations, the team creates real-time, actionable intelligence to reduce the overall costs and complexities associated with managing waste, industrial equipment and utility assets.

For example, Taoglas Waste Insights helps cities and enterprises provide actionable insights and outcomes for councils, constituents, private enterprise and wider communities. It optimises waste collection processes and can save cities up to 80% in waste collections, and is used as a tool to monitor and reduce CO₂ emissions.

The Bigbelly Telebelly platform is being showcased as a part of a joint effort to offer a multi-purpose smart city platform in the USA. The Telebelly is a double station which has a smart waste unit coupled with a telecom cabinet that conceals critical small cell radio, IoT and communications equipment. This is suitable for urban areas.

Taoglas’ smart power offerings include Genset Insights, enabling businesses to optimise their fleet of generators with real-time data and analytics anywhere, anytime. With a five-minute install, it includes the Taoglas Edge IG10 industrial gateway combined with the Taoglas Insights enterprise-level software vendor agnostic platform that lets users manage all their equipment remotely on one platform.

The OEM IoT business focuses on IoT design services, hardware, software platforms, manufacturing and supply of complex, large-scale IoT systems for enterprises. Taoglas has more than 100 engineers across ten global engineering centres worldwide, with experience in system-level design and integration across wireless connectivity, sensors, machine vision, AI and high-precision positioning.

At MWC, Taoglas is showing its system-on-module (SoM) portfolio based on its Edge IoT design platform and offers flexibility and scalability for rapid IoT deployment. The pre-validated stack of hardware, firmware, device management and cloud analytics platform can cut time-to-market by up to 80% for any IoT application.

Taoglas provides engineering, integration and support services that enable large global enterprises and start-ups to develop their products quickly with low risk and high quality. Examples include autonomous automotive applications where Taoglas reduces the cost and lead time of developing C-V2X by providing system-level design services across positioning, navigation and timing, and real time kinematics (RTK) hardware.

Taoglas’ advanced components portfolio will be expanded with the introduction of three 5G and GNSS antennas:

• The TG.66 is a compact monopole antenna designed to cover all global 5G and 4G frequencies between 600MHz and 6GHz.
• The TGX.04 is a compact multi-mount, cross polarised 4 x 4G and 5G MIMO antenna to cover all wideband 5G and 4G sub-6GHz bands.
• The GPDF6010.A is a circular triple-band dual feed stacked patch GNSS antenna for triple-band RTK surveying systems and mission critical positioning for autonomous vehicles and robotics.

“Taoglas has always been driven by the desire to provide our customers with exceptional engineering services, products and designs,” said Ronan Quinlan, co-CEO of Taoglas. “Through the establishment of our three business units, we can give our customers more focus and respond quicker to individual needs in specific verticals.”

Co-CEO Dermot O’Shea added: “At Taoglas we believe that innovation is a continuous evolution, so as the industry evolves so do we. We’re investing heavily in our people and innovation, and we’re excited to be back at MWC LA with new strong product and services offerings.”