French IoT firm Kerlink is helping take the IoT to the high country with a LoRaWan deployed at La Clusaz, one of the most popular ski resorts in the French Alps.

Installed with Kerlink’s long-time partner Adeunis, the network is powered by Kerlink’s Wirnetstation, a robust outdoor LoRaWan gateway for smart public and private IoT networks.

The network will be used to help resort managers implement smart-facility programmes such as ski lift operation, monitoring refrigeration systems in mountain restaurants during the off-season, and managing occupancy in cabins to optimise the resort’s emergency-response plans.

In addition to improving operational efficiency, these steps should boost resort-staff reactivity to visitors’ needs and assure visitors and skiers of a safe and satisfying experience.

By delivering these operational and efficiency features, the network also will support the resort’s goals of reducing maintenance costs and complying with health and safety regulations.

“Kerlink’s Wirnet stations, and its successor, the Wirnet iStation, which are simple to install and flexible for operators to use, are ensuring IoT network performance and robustness in a broad diversity of demanding environments, including a desert in the Middle East, the monsoon climate in India, and on the side of Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano,” said Stéphane Dejean, Kerlink CMO. “At La Clusaz, our industry-leading gateway technology will enable this mountain resort to increase efficiency and visitor safety whatever the conditions outside may deliver.”

With 20 years of experience in designing and providing wireless communications systems, Adeunis specialises in smart industry, smart buildings and smart cities for the IoT. The La Clusaz network also is supported by API-k Telecommunications, a French company dedicated to helping users capitalise on the benefits of LoRa networks.

Kerlink is a provider of end-to-end connectivity for designing, deploying and operating public and private low-power wide area IoT networks. Its portfolio includes industrial-grade network equipment, network core, operations and management software, value-added applications, and professional services, backed by R&D capabilities.

More than 140,000 Kerlink installations have been rolled out with over 350 clients in 70 countries. Based in France, with subsidiaries in the USA, Singapore, India and Japan, Kerlink is a co-founder and board member of the LoRa Alliance and the uCIFI Alliance.