Five IoT start-ups grow from Sigfox Hacking House programme

Sigfox, an IoT service provider and “the first global 0G network operator”, reports that five Hacking House start-ups are transforming their Internet of Things (IoT) concepts and prototypes into real products and services. The start-ups are part of Sigfox’s Hacking House programme, designed to enable students and young entrepreneurs to create IoT solutions that solve for a range of logistical, technical and societal issues. The companies include young entrepreneurs that are taking their first steps in the IoT sector, using Sigfox’s extensive network of incubators, accelerators, VCs and investors. ll five were a part of Sigfox’s Hacking House programs in Chicago and Paris: Clever IoT Bracelet, which offers a medical wearable designed to measure and track abnormalities in patients’ vital signs in developing countries like Colombia, where heart sickness accounts for a large portion of deaths.