SLT-MOBITEL’s ANANKE IoT Services shines at Globee Awards
View(s):SLT-MOBITEL, the country’s largest telecom company, said this week that its partner ANANKE IoT Services (Pvt) Ltd has been conferred a Gold award under the ‘Start-up of the Year – IT Category’ at the 16th Annual 2021 IT World Awards.
Organisers of the world’s premier business awards programmes and business ranking lists, The Globee® Awards; recognised ANANKE IoT’s Smart Bins Project, powered by NB-IoT technology from SLT-MOBITEL, the company said in a media release.
The overall objective of the project is to improve PET plastic waste collection and recycling in Central, Uva and North Western Provinces in partnership with provincial and local authorities and schools. The project enables the circularity of PET packaging waste in these areas as a ‘give-back life’ initiative. As the name suggests, these smart bins fixed with sensors notify the respective provincial and local authorities when it is time for the garbage to be collected.
SLT-MOBITEL’s NB-IoT network enables the entire device connectivity chain of the Smart Bins Project and is Sri Lanka’s only such network to-date. NB-IoT is the GSMA standard for Low-Power-Wide-Area Internet of Things connectivity, which is particularly suited to ensure the battery life of a sensor extends to up to 10 years. “As the only telco to offer this advanced technology in Sri Lanka, SLT-MOBITEL was perfectly positioned to support ANANKE IoT Services for quick deployment of its Smart Bins solution. This is the first large-scale NB-IoT enabled hardware project in Sri Lanka and utilises, ANANKE IoT’s in-house built proprietary platform,” the statement said.
“As the National ICT and Mobile Service Provider, SLT-MOBITEL strives to craft customer centric technological solutions. With the pandemic, we observed several of our valued stakeholders seeking to adopt Digital Services, particularly in areas of IoT and automation to reduce the need for unnecessary human intervention in business processes. Owing to our pioneering efforts in rolling out an NB-IoT Network ahead of market demand, we were able to power innovative start-ups such as ANANKE IoT Services with a rapid deployment of their NB-IoT Smart Bins,” said, Chandika Vitharana, Chief Executive Officer, Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd.