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Meet the Group: Connect IoT, LoRaWAN sensors and GPS trackers for businesses

Company Spotlight21 October 2026·4 min read

Meet the Group: Connect IoT, Where It All Started

Connect IoT is the company the group grew out of. Since 2022 it has been helping businesses put LoRaWAN sensors and trackers to work without needing an IoT department to do it.

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Meet the Group: Hexaspot, LoRaWAN and Meshtastic hardware webshop

Company Spotlight4 min read

Meet the Group: Hexaspot, the Hardware Shop for LoRaWAN and Meshtastic

From tuned antennas to Digital Matter trackers, Hexaspot stocks the hardware that real deployments run on, and ships it from Alkmaar, often the same day.

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Meet the Group: EdgePilot, fully managed LoRaWAN gateways with built-in 4G

Company Spotlight5 min read

Meet the Group: EdgePilot, LoRaWAN Gateways as a Fully Managed Service

EdgePilot ships LoRaWAN gateways pre-configured with built-in 4G, then looks after firmware, monitoring and support for a fixed yearly fee per gateway.

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Meet the Group: Trackpac, IoT sensor management dashboard with maps and alerts

Company Spotlight5 min read

Meet the Group: Trackpac, IoT Sensor Management Made Easy

Trackpac turns raw sensor data into maps, alerts and automated actions. A look at the UK platform that gives Connect IoT Group its dashboard layer.

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Meet the Group: Chirpcloud, managed ChirpStack LoRaWAN network server hosting

Company Spotlight5 min read

Meet the Group: Chirpcloud, Managed ChirpStack Without the Ops Burden

Chirpcloud runs production-grade ChirpStack v4 network servers so integrators and product teams can focus on their devices, not their database.

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Company News2 min read

Connect IoT Group BV Launches, Welcomes Paralympic Judoka Larissa Klaassen as First Brand Ambassador

Connect IoT Group BV officially launched today as the parent company behind five IoT brands, and revealed its very first brand ambassador: Paralympic judoka Larissa Klaassen.

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Diagram showing LoRaWAN network architecture with sensors, gateways, and cloud

IoT Fundamentals6 min read

What Is LoRaWAN? A Complete Guide to Long-Range IoT Connectivity

LoRaWAN powers most of the IoT deployments we build. A plain-English explanation of how it works, what the different pieces do, and why we chose it as the backbone of Connect IoT Group.

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Supply chain with IoT trackers showing real-time location data on a dashboard

Asset Tracking5 min read

How IoT Asset Tracking Is Transforming Logistics and Supply Chain

Most logistics teams know roughly where their assets are. Roughly. IoT tracking closes that gap entirely, and Trackpac was built specifically to make it practical.

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LoRaWAN gateway mounted on a building with coverage area overlay

Infrastructure5 min read

Why Managed LoRaWAN Gateway Services Save You Time and Money

Running your own LoRaWAN gateways sounds straightforward until you are three months in and juggling firmware across forty sites. That experience is exactly why we built EdgePilot.

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Collection of different IoT sensors including temperature, GPS tracker, and air quality monitors

Hardware6 min read

How to Choose the Right IoT Sensors for Your Deployment

Picking the right sensor for an IoT project is less about specs and more about the environment it will live in. We break down the trade-offs that actually matter.

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Indoor floor plan showing WiFi positioning heatmap with device locations

Positioning7 min read

Indoor Positioning: WiFi vs BLE vs UWB Compared

GPS is great until you walk through a door. Inside buildings, you need a different approach, and the three main options each come with very different trade-offs.

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Layered diagram showing sensor, gateway, network server, and dashboard layers

IoT Strategy7 min read

Building an End-to-End IoT Solution: From Sensor to Dashboard

An IoT deployment has more moving parts than most people expect. A practical walkthrough of how each layer connects, what can go wrong, and how to get it right first time.

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LoRaWAN network server architecture showing device connections and data flow

Infrastructure5 min read

Self-Hosted vs Managed LoRaWAN Network Server: What We Learned Running Both

Before we built Chirpcloud, we ran our own LoRaWAN network servers. It worked, right up until it didn't. What we learned and why we moved to managed hosting.

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