Cologne, Germany-based Internet-connected provider 1NCE has partnered with Seattle-based Amazon Web Services to expand its Internet of Things (IoT) platform on a global scale.
The collaboration brings 1NCE’s cloud native IoT offering closer to its customers around the world, according to a Jan. 4 press release.
"This intensified engagement with AWS allows us to boost our network and IoT software portfolio at greatly improved conditions and with the appropriate know-how," Younes Allaki, chief technology officer at 1NCE said in the release. "We can leverage synergies between the AWS infrastructure and our IoT platform which helps us develop our next Level IoT software at low costs. This is a prerequisite to implement new features into our existing IoT flat rate offering, like protocol conversion, energy management and localization services."
The company has also developed a software relating to AWS, which would allow IoT developers to implement cellular IoT connection, the release stated.
According to 1NCE’s website, the company was founded in 2017 and has the distinction of launching the world’s first IoT flat-rate solution.
Along with its headquarters in Cologne, 1NCE has another German office in Hamburg in addition to offices in Riga, Latvia; London; Paris; Rome; Amsterdam; Warsaw, Poland; and Hong Kong.
The startup boasts a workforce of 150 employees, manages more than 10 million Subscriber Identify Module (SIM) card connections, and has participated in numerous IoT projects.