Remote Things - A Remote and Rural IoT Service Provider

Remote Things是一种物联网(IoT)平台，面向农村使用案例，能够以更低的基础设施要求运行，并具有在农村环境的网络边缘运行的高级功能。虽然英国政府最近的举措为四大移动运营商制定了到2025年数据覆盖率达到95%的目标，这将使物联网技术在一些农村地区实现，但仍将有一些特定的农村地区由于安装4/5G在商业或技术上不可行而被甩在后面，这将扩大数字鸿沟，并对农村工业产生影响。我们建议通过基于LPWAN的免许可证、低成本技术LoRaWAN来缓解这一问题，LoRaWAN运行在定制设计的软件平台上，其功能使其特别适用于电力和宽带/光纤等基础设施不可用的农村用途。这将使物联网技术应用于环境传感、牲畜监测和安全等一系列应用中。缺乏农村通信基础设施并不是英国独有的问题。相信这一平台的发展将提供后续的国际机遇，有助于英国引领世界。

"Remote Things", is an Internet of Things (IoT) platform targeted towards rural use cases that is able to operate with reduced infrastructure requirements and has advanced features operating at the edge of the network in the rural environment.Whilst recent UK Government initiatives have given the big 4 mobile operators a target of 95% of data coverage by 2025 which will enable IoT technology in a number of rural locations, there will still be some specific rural areas who will be left behind due to it being commercially or technically infeasible to install 4/5G, increasing the digital divide and impacting on rural industries. We propose to mitigate this with a license free, low cost LPWAN based technology LoRaWAN operating over a bespoke designed software platform with features that make it specifically compatible for rural use where underlying infrastructure such as power and broadband/fiber are not available. This will enable IoT technology for use in a number of applications such as environmental sensing, livestock monitoring and security. Lack of rural communications infrastructure is not a problem specific to the UK. It is believed that development of this platform will provide follow-on international opportunities that will help the UK lead the world.