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Friday, April 16, 2021

NPlay Cono Sur 2021

Cotesma completes the testing of the Patagonia Tracker platform

This was reported by Diego López Calviño, Technical Manager of the Cooperativa Telefónica de San Martín de los Andes, on the last day of the NPlay Cono Sur 2021 event organized by Grupo Convergencia. 

The benchmark stated that the platform on Sigfox, which is used to monitor the Lanín Volcano area, is already installed and its performance under test. "We are adding visitors, we are stressing it, already in the final stages," López Calviño clarified. 

In the panel "Towards a“ Smart ”country: Narrow-band IoT, unlicensed technologies and other models for smart cities" also spoke the head of the Argentine Chamber of IoT, Raúl Crudele, who highlighted that the new entity has already recruited more than 80 partners and that it is in the stage of consolidating projects and developing its network of contacts. “ISPs, cooperatives and SMEs have the obligation to adopt technological changes and promote adoption by customers, which are the State, companies, public service providers, who have to learn what the IoT is and how. buy the linked services ”.

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