Packetworx Participates in RISE Conference 2018: Deployment and Solution Perspective
The technical value of LoRaWAN is strongest when it is combined with coverage strategy, device interoperability, partner enablement, hosted platforms, and repeatable deployment patterns.
Executive Brief
- Focus area: LoRaWAN network, partnerships, and IoT market adoption.
- Connectivity model: low-power distributed sensing over LoRaWAN, supported by gateways, device management, dashboards, alerts, and integration-ready data.
- Solution fit: combine connectivity, packetSENSE devices, packetCELL gateways, packetVIEW, and partner enablement into a phased deployment.
- Implementation principle: start with measurable operational decisions, not with isolated devices.
The Innovation-to-Market Problem
Technology recognition and startup visibility are valuable only when they help a solution reach customers, partners, and repeatable deployments. Innovation programs should test whether an IoT offer can solve a costly problem, be supported in the field, and scale through a credible market pathway.
LoRaWAN use cases span cities, buildings, utilities, agriculture, logistics, and industry
LoRa AllianceLoRaWAN base stations were included in Packetworx and Actility's nationwide deployment plan
ActilityIoT ventures need validation, partner access, and deployment discipline to move beyond demos
Packetworx innovation articlePriority Use Cases
- Use innovation events to validate customer problems, deployment requirements, and partner interest.
- Translate recognition into field pilots with devices, network coverage, dashboard ownership, and measurable outcomes.
- Build a repeatable go-to-market model around Packetworx connectivity, products, and solution support.
LoRaWAN Adoption Context
LoRaWAN fits IoT workloads that need long range, low power, wide-area coverage, and modest payloads from many distributed sensors. For the Philippine market, the strategic issue is not simply whether sensors can transmit; it is whether enterprises, LGUs, schools, telcos, and integrators can build reliable programs on top of connectivity, gateways, device management, dashboards, and support.
Reference Architecture
- Sensing layer: low-power devices capture physical signals such as air quality, water level, rainfall, energy, motion, temperature, humidity, equipment status, location, or user feedback.
- Connectivity layer: LoRaWAN carries small telemetry messages over long distances to packetCELL gateways or compatible LoRaWAN infrastructure, with cellular or wired backhaul where needed.
- Network and platform layer: the LoRaWAN Network Server, packetVIEW, and partner platforms manage device identity, payload decoding, dashboards, alerts, reports, and APIs.
- Operations layer: facility teams, LGUs, campuses, integrators, or enterprise users act on exceptions, compare trends, and refine thresholds based on actual field behavior.
Packetworx Solution Stack
This use case can be implemented as a layered solution rather than a one-off installation. Relevant Packetworx building blocks include:
- packetCELL Outdoor LoRaWAN Gateway for field, campus, city, and industrial coverage
- LoRaWAN Network Server and packetVIEW for device onboarding, routing, dashboards, and alerts
- packetMODBUS for connecting industrial and utility equipment that already speaks Modbus
- packetSENSE devices across air quality, weather, water, power, motion, tracking, and safety use cases
- Partner integrations through REST APIs, system integrators, telcos, universities, and solution providers
Deployment Blueprint
- Define the operating decision first: alerting, reporting, compliance evidence, maintenance triage, resource optimization, or public-service coordination.
- Map the physical environment: sensor locations, mounting constraints, gateway placement, backhaul, power source, and field-service access.
- Select the sensing and integration stack: LoRaWAN devices, packetCELL gateways, packetMODBUS where legacy equipment is involved, packetVIEW dashboards, and APIs where the data must feed an existing platform.
- Set data rules before rollout: sampling interval, alert thresholds, escalation owner, historical reporting cadence, and exception-handling workflow.
- Pilot in a bounded area, review data quality and user behavior, then expand by repeating the same deployment pattern across sites, departments, campuses, or LGU locations.
Operational Metrics to Track
A successful rollout should define success measures before devices are installed. Useful metrics for this topic include:
- gateway availability
- device join success
- message delivery consistency
- battery replacement interval
- pilot-to-rollout conversion
Governance, Security, and Integration
LoRaWAN deployments should be treated as operational technology, not casual gadget projects. Device identity, gateway ownership, alert permissions, dashboard access, data retention, and API use must be clear before scale-up. For schools, LGUs, utilities, and enterprises, the same discipline also improves procurement: each phase can be tied to coverage, device count, operating owner, service-level expectation, and a measurable outcome.
Background Reading
Packetworx joined RISE Conference held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center last July 8-11, 2018. RISE is an event attended by startups and big companies from different industries.
Packetworx, the leading Internet of Things (IoT) company in the Philippines, was able to meet with different industry players and get insights, pitch ideas, and find potential partners.
Founder and CEO of Packetworx, Arnold Bagabaldo, shared the advocacies and initiatives of the group at the RISE Conference held in Hong Kong.
‘RISE was a great opportunity for Packetworx to gain better traction from the participants of the event. It was well-attended, we were able to introduce our company and open business opportunities,’ shares Arnold Bagabaldo, Founder and CEO of Packetworx. RISE reviews abstracts submitted by different organizations. Afterwards, they select promising startups based on their potential.
Hailing from more than 170 different countries around the globe, RISE participants were given the opportunity to showcase their companies’ potential to other members of the industry.
RISE invites founders, customers, investors, and media from world’s most exciting startups to the biggest companies from 170+ different countries around the globe. Each day gives the attendees the opportunities to create new connections, leads, and network to one another.
The next RISE Conference is set on July 8-11, 2019. About Packetworx
Packetworx is a technology social enterprise which focuses on enabling IoT in the Philippines. It is a member of the LoRa™ Alliance, a worldwide alliance of over 500-member companies that support the standardization of LPWAN with the LoRaWAN™ specification and has created a certification and compliance program to ensure interoperability among its members.
About RISE RISE is produced by the team behind Web Summit. In 8 short years, Web Summit has become Europe’s largest tech conference which last year attracted 70,000 attendees from 170+ countries around the world.
In July 2019, people from the world’s biggest companies and most exciting startups will come to Hong Kong to share their stories and experiences. They’ll be joined by major global media, hundreds of investors and thousands of attendees for three days of legendary networking.