Greenwave Systems announced Thursday AXON Platform for Conversational IoT, a carrier-grade smart gateway that supports a hands-free, voice activated speaker with customizable wake-up word and open architecture. The solution combines the company’s AXON Platform with advanced integrated voice and Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered natural language understanding (NLU) technology from Nuance, enabling a unique opportunity for service providers to create conversational IoT in multiple languages.
AXON Platform for Conversational IoT is an end-to-end embedded and cloud-based delivery and IoT management solution for companies looking to implement a voice interface in a variety of environments, including industrial, commercial and consumer segments. The solution is part of a flexible architecture offering unique product features and services, and leverages Nuance Mix to deliver voice recognition, text-to-speech, voice biometrics powered wake-up word and AI-powered language understanding.
The platform delivers AXON Platform cloud intelligence; that comes fully customizable conversational voice user interface for IoT control. It also offers customizable wake-up word; support for multiple languages; flexible architecture enabling fast time to market with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Z-wave connectivity.
AXON Platform aims to reduce the friction between people and technology. User experience matters and the system architecture facilitates an interactive exchange.
AXON Platform is horizontal in design, enabling the addition of new use cases for premium services. AXON Platform is all about context, translating real-time communications from the widest variety of IoT devices into the same standard IP-based language, enabling interoperability across products from different vendors.
Nuance Mix supports access to cloud services such as news, weather and Q&A. In addition, the platform introduces new network features expected by carriers for HD Voice, media optimization, security and IoT end-point management. The reference implementation streamlines product development and gives providers direct control over managed services.
“We are steadfast in our commitment to lead innovation towards user-friendly experiences that facilitate mass adoption of IoT,” said Martin Manniche, CEO of Greenwave Systems. “Our dedication to our trusted partners’ success drives us to provide them with fully designed solutions that are ready to deploy.”
The solution combines customizable voice recognition and AI with microphone beam-forming, acoustic echo cancellation, barge-in capabilities, speech signal enhancement, Bluetooth audio, Wi-Fi and Z-Wave connectivity, into a single platform that can be fully customized and scalable for service providers. Customers will obtain a reliable and robust platform while retaining control over services.
“We are steadfast in our commitment to lead innovation towards user-friendly experiences that facilitate mass adoption of IoT,” said Martin Manniche, CEO of Greenwave Systems. “Our dedication to our trusted partners’ success drives us to provide them with fully designed solutions that are ready to deploy.”
Greenwave powers millions of devices on advanced networks through telecom, utilities and service providers for their managed services such as audio, video, broadband and energy management systems. Smart home and enterprise ecosystems will benefit from this unique ability to experience conversational IoT with intelligence and easy integration of new managed services.
“Consumers will be the litmus test on the IoT – if these intelligent devices aren’t able to seamlessly integrate into day to day life, the opportunity for the ecosystem and consumers is lost. And that’s where the AXON Platform for Conversational IoT becomes incredibly important, allowing people to easily interact with technology as it was intended,” said Kenn Harper, vice president, emerging solutions, Nuance Mobile.
Greenwave and Quantenna Communications announced Thursday carrier-grade full-duplex Wi-Fi range extender for whole-home coverage. Quantenna’s superior Wi-Fi technology combines with Greenwave’s AXON Platform in a design that’s ready for service providers looking to optimize the connected home experience and lead the market in Wi-Fi management.
Utilizing Quantenna’s high performance Wi-Fi technology, the full duplex extender boasts three individual RF radios to efficiently handle real-time applications that demand fast throughput, such as simultaneous 4K HD video streaming, VOIP calls, VR gaming, fast downloads, and other applications.
Certain areas in the home that were previously hard to reach can now benefit from reliable connection with up to two time the performance of current solutions.
In addition, Greenwave’s AXON Platform leverages Quantenna’s SONiQ implementation, its intelligent Self Optimizing Network software, to seamlessly manage repeaters and gateways as a unified system to achieve the most optimal Wi-Fi performance. SONiQ’s modular architecture can support all Wi-Fi chips and has flexibility to customize its algorithms for client roaming and band steering for system vendors, service providers or software integrators.
The AXON Platform takes advantage of SONiQ to help enable the best possible Quality-of-Experience, while balancing local and cloud network performance. Auto-configured for easy set-up, the AXON Platform navigates the provisioning, security and management that facilitates a no-touch experience, eliminating the need to send out a service technician or suffer complicated installations.
