Semtech shows LoRa Intent for Nexity

  • September 19, 2022
  • Steve Rogerson

Intent Technologies, a service platform for smart properties, and French real-estate services provider Nexity Group have integrated Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWan standard into the Intent Platform.

The goal is to optimise performance, improve quality of service and reduce the carbon footprint in residential and commercial properties.

The Intent Platform smart building offering has already achieved ten per cent savings in overall building operational costs for Nexity Group. Deployed throughout the French territory, the system’s footprint spans more than 1.2 million residential units as well as over six million square metres of office space.

Providing 360-degree facility views, this LoRa-enabled smart properties offering helps real estate professionals improve the operating performance of a building by exchanging data with more than 180 service suppliers and digital software vendors through a dashboard with alerts on a single, cloud platform.

“Ease of deployment and data collection quality made LoRa devices the clear choice to develop the use of data from sensors and equipment by real-estate property managers on our platform,” said Benjamin Ulrich, CEO of Intent Technologies. “With LoRa devices and LoRaWan connectivity, the technology simplifies the way to deploy, maintain and utilise sensors on existing building infrastructures. Not only does it reduce time spent on installations but, with its low level of power consumption, the technology significantly decreases the cost and labour required for battery replacements during the life cycle of the sensors.”

The smart buildings market is forecasted to reach $141.7bn in 2028 due to the rise in adoption of IoT technology. There are more than five million LoRa gateways and 270 million end nodes with LoRa devices deployed worldwide.

The Intent Platform is positioned to connect sensors to monitor air quality, temperature, energy and water usage, and automatically provide alerts to property management and service providers when anomalies are detected, such as possible water or gas leaks, for quick response and resolution.

“Intent and Nexity’s product development and deployments showcase the value of IoT and the digital transformation in building management that is delivering efficiency, operational cost savings and occupant safety,” said Marc Pégulu, vice president for California-based Semtech. “Smart buildings give added control for how consumers and communities utilise energy in a responsible manner. Semtech and the LoRaWan ecosystem are committed to protecting our Earth’s resources and enhancing the quality of human life.”

Founded in 2011, Intent Technologies increases the value and efficiency of smart buildings and smart cities by providing a cloud platform to pilot and interact with the entire real-estate and cities ecosystem of service suppliers and digital software vendors. The Intent Platform for commercial and industrial real estate professionals, social housing operators or cities centralises actionable data to make it easier to manage facility services delivered to the users. It improves operational efficiencies through a library of APIs that supply data to clients in an easy-to-understand platform available on web or mobile app.

With nearly 8000 employees and €4.6bn in revenue in 2021, Nexity is a Fremch integrated real-estate group with a nationwide presence and business operations in all areas of real estate development and services.