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Technology Overview for W3C WoT Group Juan Carlos ZUNIGA Senior Standardization Expert – Sigfox 10.07.17

1 INTRODUCTION 2 USE CASES AND DEPLOYMENTS 3 TECHNOLOGY 4 KEY FEATURES 5 IoT: CONNECTING THE “I” WITH THE “T” 2

1 INTRODUCTION ▪ Sigfox, Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) and Massive IoT 3

A dream of disruption to make things come alive “ Time flies! It’s already been more than five years that we have been chasing our dream to change the world with a crazy idea to connect the physical world to the Internet, consuming as little energy as possible and as simply as possible. Today we are making it a reality, with hundreds of millions of messages already transmitted and received via the Sigfox Network, which continues to deploy around the globe. This is what we like to call the “Power of Low,” which fully embodies the meaning of the Internet of Things – a huge revolution without precedent. We’re excited about where all this is headed, and we hope you’re excited about it too! ” Christophe Fourtet Ludovic Le Moan CSO Sigfox CEO Sigfox 4

KEY GOALS FOR MASSIVE IoT Ultra Low Cost (Devices and Network) COST ENERGY EFFICIENT EFFECTIVE Ultra Low Current Drain Ultra High Capacity – Scalability HIGH GLOBAL Global Simplicity CAPACITY SIMPLICITY 5

SIGFOX IS A LOW POWER WIDE AREA NETWORK complementing existing networks to address the bulk of connected objects LPWAN definition ENERGY & COST PUBLIC EFFICIENCY ▪ High density of objects ▪ CONNECTIVITY Reduced H/W cost PERSONAL & PRIVATE ▪ Reduced connectivity cost NETWORKS ▪ Low data rates LPWAN requirements ▪ Constrained latency 2G 3G 802.11ah 4G LTE-M 5G NB-IoT LAN PAN WAN SCALE 6

WHERE WE ARE IN THE IoT CHAIN A network to transport data from connected objects to the customer IT systems Chip & module Device Connectivity Platform Vertical vendors makers provider providers Application Royalty free license Certifies device Builds and operates Provides API Provides API • • • • • Certifies integration the network with Certifies platform Certifies application • • • regional SNO partners compatibility compatibility Provides Internet • Sigfox connectivity Sell and support Integrate Sigfox Data storage Vertical specific • • • • Ecosystem cheap and connectivity module Big Data analytics solutions and • partners compatible H/W for into product intelligence Sigfox network 7

3 USE CASES AND DEPLOYMENTS ▪ Customer stories ▪ Country deployments ▪ Sigfox Foundation

Assisted Living MANAGE PEOPLE Box REMOTLY Challenge The city council of Loiret in France, which supports financially medical cares for seniors, was regularly overcharged by care service providers. With the ageing population, there is a need for solutions to help seniors staying at home longer without their relatives worrying too much. Solution Benefits The Lysbox helps monitoring service ▪ The ROI was reached within providers and automate the billing based the first 6 months thanks to on the actual time spent with the seniors. the savings of 3 million € per It also sends alerts to neighbors or year, which represent 10% families in case of a heat wave or cold of their budget. The total spell detected through the temperature cost of the project was 1.5 sensor of the device. million €. Finally, seniors can also call for help ▪ The adoption rate was 97% thanks to the emergency button on the among the seniors. device. ▪ The social isolation broke down and services quality 9 went up.

Home Alarm SECURE BETTER System Challenge Alarms are traditionally connected through GSM to central system and burglar intrusion can be facilitated by GSM jammers. There is a need for effective backup connectivity to ensure more robust alarm transmissions. Solution Benefits Sigfox has upgraded Securitas ▪ Robustness of solution is a Direct’s alarm systems to provide a commercial differentiator back-up connectivity in case ▪ Continuity of service jamming is detected. ▪ Soft deployment via over the The upgrade was possible over the Alternative partners for this application air update - no HW swap. No air as a Sub-GHz chip was already user impact inside. ▪ Network available to handle millions of devices 10

Smoke Detector SECURE BETTER Challenge Alarms are traditionally connected through GSM to central system and burglar intrusion can be facilitated by GSM jammers. There is a need for effective backup connectivity to ensure more robust alarm transmissions. Solution Benefits Connected smoke detectors to ▪ A Unique Selling Proposition: increase safety ▪ Easy to install Regular status (heartbeat) monitors ▪ Secure data transmission check sensors are functioning Alternative partners for this application ▪ correctly Proof of function ▪ Real time alerts through phone calls, 5+ year battery life SMS, and emails ▪ TAM: 12 million policy holders Distribution through retail and insurance companies 11

Precision OPTIMIZE YOUR Agriculture RESSOURCES Challenge Irrigation & usage of fertilizers are based on the intuition of the farmer and represent a big part of its operating costs. Solution Benefits GreenCityZen offers the HummBox, a ▪ Save water resources continuous measurement solution for ▪ Decrease operating cost by the monitoring of environmental data. using no more water and Hummbox is an energy and fertilizers than what is communication means stand-alone actually needed solutions, very simple to deploy and ▪ interoperable. The HummBox brings Micromanagement of the immediate benefits such as reduced parcel costs of field trips, improved process ▪ Improve production performance and help to enrich service quantity and quality offerings ect leaks and water waste. 12

Thanks to our IoT solutions, we enable to unlock 5 main business benefits… Control quality of delivery (SLA, humidity, temperature, shock) TRACKING 1 Identify responsibility of assets and localization off site MOVING ASSET Ensure recovery of lost assets Increase security for remote facilities, assets & people 2 REINFORCING SECURITY Complement existing connectivity with an anti-jamming solution Ensure uptime with predictive & reactive maintenance 3 IMPROVING UPTIME Optimize your maintenance routes Automate replenishment MANAGING PEOPLE 4 Control your providers, patients, employees remotely REMOTELY OPTIMIZING 5 Get more out of your assets, energy & people RESOURCES 13

Sigfox network relies on Sigfox Operators that provide the network coverage in countries IOT Net Mexico 14 IOT Malta Ltd.

Sigfox and Operators offer to customers an ecosystem on which all objects can be connected Network 1 100 1,000 Channel Partners 10,000 Customers 1,000,000,000 Objects 15

Sigfox Foundation 16

2 TECHNOLOGY ▪ Ultra narrow band ▪ Random access ▪ Cooperative reception ▪ Small messages ▪ Bi-directional ▪ Cloud-based Core Network 17

ULTRA NARROW BAND RANDOM ACCESS COOPERATIVE RECEPTION SMALL MESSAGES SIGFOX CLOUD PIGGYBACK BI-DIR CORE 18

ULTRA NARROW BAND (EU) ✓ 100Hz wide in a 200 kHz band ✓ DBPSK ✓ High spectrum efficiency 1bit/s = 1Hz of bandwidth

RANDOM ACCESS ✓ Unsynchronized transmission ✓ Random frequency ✓ SIGFOX Base stations permanently listen to the spectrum ✓ 3 replicas of the same frame @ 3 frequencies

COOPERATIVE RECEPTION ✓ Message received by 3 Base Stations in average ✓ Spatial diversity decreases collision probability ✓ MIMO like Approach 21

SMALL MESSAGES Payload size examples to answer the cost & autonomy constraints of remote objects  6 bytes: GPS coordinates  2 bytes: temperature reporting SIGFOX  1 byte: speed reporting CLOUD  1 byte: object state reporting  0 byte: heartbeat (object keepalive) UPLINK DOWNLINK 12-byte payload 8-byte payload - Sensor data - Action / actuator trigger - Event status - Device management - GPS fix - Application parameter setting - Application data 1 % duty cycle for Objects 10 % duty cycle for Base Stations Up to 6 messages/hour 4 guaranteed downlink msg/day 22

DEVICE DRIVEN BI-DIRECTIONAL ✓ Downlink requested by the device to the network ✓ Delay of 20 seconds – 25 seconds downlink window ✓ Downlink frequency derived from uplink frequency 23

SIGFOX CLOUD-BASED CORE ✓ Centralized Authentication & Message Forwarding ✓ Flat RAN Architecture 24

3 KEY FEATURES ▪ High energy efficiency ▪ Long range ▪ Simple connectivity ▪ Secure 25

HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY to offer maximum autonomy to remote objects Current ✓ Communication state Designed to maximize energy efficiency Idle state ~6 sec ✓ No pairing / network attachment 30 mA 99.x% of the time required ✓ 15 to 45 mA during a few seconds (25mW; 14dB) depending on the chip and the size of the payload ✓ Idle consumption: negligible Time 6 nA 26