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ThingPark Enterprise overview

ThingPark Enterprise (TPE) is an IoT connectivity management solution allowing to deploy a private fully-controlled LoRaWAN® network for a fast use case enablement.
All components of the network, including sensors, gateways and data flows are managed from a unique and easy-to-use user interface.
ThingPark Enterprise allows full flexibility in the choice of gateways or devices. It is a flexible, scalable and secure solution allowing to start with a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) and scale to full deployments.

With ThingPark Enterprise, IoT Administrators operate dependable & scalable LoRaWAN® infrastructure:

  • Build the network infrastructure by connecting and managing LoRaWAN® base stations (also called gateways).

  • Add new devices to the network and manage them through their lifecycle.

  • Monitor the network operations using dashboards, alarms and status data.

  • Control the data flow towards your Application Servers or to popular IoT Cloud platforms.

Key capabilities

ThingPark Enterprise enables IoT service providers to:

Connect
  • Easily connect and configure your sensors, with access to all "ThingPark certified" devices on the marketplace.

  • Connect any LoRaWAN® gateway, from any brand and using any hardware architecture.

  • Deploy LoRaWAN® relays to boost your RF coverage in white spots.

  • Integrate your applications in just a flew clicks, delivering decoded ready-to-use applicative payloads leveraging the richest set of payload drivers in the LoRaWAN ecosystem.

  • Use the LoRaWAN® coverage offered by your roaming partners, thanks to the ThingPark Exchange roaming hub.

  • Choose your optimum deployment mode: Software as a Service (SaaS), on-premises, on cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Alibaba etc.).

Manage
  • Multi-tenant architecture, allowing user role segregation

  • Easy-to-use user interface with intuitive dashboards and key performance indicators to simplify your network operations.

  • Built-in catalog of device profiles for managing different radio profiles, LoRaWAN® classes and payload decoders.

Integrate
  • Ready-to-use connectors for major IoT Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Cumulocity, Thingworx, Thingsboard, and generic MQTT/HTTPS connectors).

  • REST APIs expose all management functionalities for third-party dashboard integration.

  • Single Sign-On (SSO), integrating with your enterprise identity provider to support federated authentication.

Secure
  • IPsec or TLS tunnels between base stations and the Network Server.

  • Access rights and user license management.

  • Multi-factor authentication.

Deployment options

ThingPark Enterprise SaaS

ThingPark Enterprise may run in a geo-redundant, fully managed 24*7 SaaS platform hosted in one of Actility's regional data centers (Europe, USA, Australia).

Self-hosted ThingPark Enterprise

For a Self-hosted deployment, ThingPark Enterprise can be installed on a private environment either on-premise or on a cloud provider. Multiple deployment variants are available. For more information, see self-hosted deployments.

ThingPark Enterprise All-in-One (TAO)

ThingPark Enterprise All-in-One product offers an entry-level LoRaWAN® private network with up to 5 gateways. The LoRaWAN® Network Server is embedded in the master gateway. ThingPark Enterprise All-in-One leverages Node-RED to simplify the integration with external IoT applications.

ThingPark customers can seamlessly upgrade their ThingPark Enterprise All-in-One towards the highly-scalable, resilient full-edition ThingPark Enterprise to scale up the coverage/capacity of their LPWAN deployment. Device configuration and session context is preserved through the upgrade.

To learn more, see ThingPark Enterprise All-in-One.