Nationality French Known for Sigfox Organizations founded Goojet | Occupation CEO Name Ludovic Moan | |
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Ludovic Le Moan is a French businessman, CEO of Sigfox, an IoT network provider. Before Sigfox, Ludovic Le Moan headed several French businesses, such as Goojet and Anywhere Technologies.
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- Colloque npa le figaro 2015 ludovic le moan sigfox
- Ludovic le moan demos sigfox at leweb paris 2012
- Career
- Sigfox
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Ludovic le moan demos sigfox at leweb paris 2012
Career
Le Moan graduated with a certificat d'aptitude professionnelle (CAP) in woodturning, and later from the Ecole nationale superieure d'informatique et de mathematiques appliquees de Grenoble with an engineering degree.
Being termed the "100 million man", Ludovic Le Moan co-founded SIGFOX, and has been its Chief Executive Officer since December 2010. His previous occupations included serving as founder, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Scoop.it (now Scoop.it) until November 2010; CEO of Anyware Technologies (sold to Wavecom in 2007); managing COFRAMI Group. He left the position to create Anyware Technologies. He founded GOOJET (now Scoop.it).
Sigfox
Together with Christophe Fourtet, Le Moan co-founded Sigfox, based in Toulouse, in 2009, the goal of which is to provide the infrastructure and capabilities for an IoT network. Specifically, the company provides narrow-band low-energy transmission capabilities (M2M communications) for objects ranging from washing machines to cars. Sigfox coverage in France and Spain is total, via approximately 1300 antennas in each country. As of 2015, the company operates in several countries, and covers an area of over 1,000,000 square kilometres (390,000 sq mi) in Europe. The company connects 7 million objects in France alone.
After its most recent round of funding in 2014-2015, which garnered $115 million (after an initial round of €27 million), it has announced its association to Samsung, and plans on going through with an IPO in 2016. Naming the company as the "Twitter of telecoms", Le Moan believes Sigfox will become a standard in global short-message communications. Speaking to PCWorld, Le Moan said that he didn't want to spend "that long" for deploying Sigfox in the US mainland, and would therefore build its own network instead of finding a local partner, where they plan to cover "main cities" first. He pointed out that "business will include networking gas, electricity and water meters, security systems, and products used to track pets, bikes and cars."