Actility is the world leader in low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) industrial-grade connectivity solutions for the Internet of Things, with over 50+ nationwide multi-technology public networks deployed, and 1000+ private networks in 150+ countries in operation. ThingPark is Actility’s multi-technology, open, hardware agnostic IoT platform allowing to deploy Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) worldwide, integrating not only the most advanced LoRaWAN Network Server, but also low-power cellular (LTE-M, NB-IoT and Private 4G*) and satellite radio networks. ThingPark provides the largest catalog of pre-integrated IoT devices, open standard APIs and connectors to all leading IoT cloud platforms and seamless administration interfaces for end-to-end integration of your IoT solutions.Actility is an Actility Group company.

Industrial Internet of Things is key to any digital transformation and becomes a reality with Actility's ThingPark Enterprise LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS). LoRaWAN is the “Wi-Fi of IoT”: it is the ideal technology to eliminate wires and associated costs for all kind of solutions.

The rapid expansion of advanced IoT devices will need real-time latency, and successful adoption will facilitate faster, more responsive, available-on-demand networks. Private 5G represents a paradigm shift in connectivity, offering unprecedented control, security, and performance to drive innovation and deliver new, value-added services. Business parks, and large facilities will be the first to benefit from Private 5G Networks that support cutting-edge solutions.GEOBLUE designs and manufactures a portfolio of software-defined radio units to meet the growing necessity of always-on connectivity Private 5G Network solutions. GEOBLUE’s compact radio units for Sub-6 GHz and CBRS allow Private Mobile Network (Non-Public Network) operators to meet the wide range of challenges by providing unparallel network flexibility as the software-defined radio units can seamlessly run CU/DU software. Geoblue is a Geoblue Group company.

Abeeway is a leading provider of disruptive IoT solutions for battery-powered tracking, location and workforce safety, based on innovative LPWAN (LoRaWAN) connectivity and a patented cloud-powered technology that makes positioning low power and more valuable. All Abeeway tracking devices and the BLE beacon are equipped with high-precision GNSS/GPS, patented Low Power GPS, ultra-low-consumption Wi-Fi sniffing techniques and BLE advertising and scanning technology, and are available in non-ATEX and ATEX / IECEx certified versions. Abeeway is IoT platform-agnostic. Abeeway has it own R&D center, located in Sophia-Antipolis.Abeeway is an Actility Group company.

Internet of Things (IoT) will transform business and industry in every sphere of activity, from connected cities to intelligent manufacturing and smart agriculture. Sparked by the dramatically reduced cost of sensors and devices, combined with new use cases, IoT will enable processes to be monitored, measured, controlled and optimized as never before.ThingPark Benelux is the leader in IoT infrastructure in Belgium and the Netherlands, with 2 national networks in operation, and hundreds of use cases.ThingPark Benelux is an Actility Group company.

NextCom works hard to create a version of the Future Internet that will make today's version seem primitive. Not only will this Future Internet be orders of magnitude faster, but it also will be always on, everywhere, natural, intelligent, easy and trusted. People will be available, active, connected and locatable, and will have help remembering everything.

The Remote Switching CompanyRFI Engineering’s strategy is to continue to leverage its leading position as an Out-of-Band Management and Service Assurance manufacturer, offering carriers, service providers, utilities and enterprises a competitive edge by reducing their total cost of ownership. The company offers high-end smart solutions, whereby external equipment, such as the Cisco, Dell, HP or other network or enterprise routers, base stations, etc. etc., are not only wirelessly controlled, but can also be managed and rebooted.RFI Engineering has been a pioneer in wireless M2M communication, and continues to lead in designing, developing and manufacturing carrier-grade equipment for the Industrial Internet of Things.August 2023 RFI Engineering, a RFI Group company, was sold to a consortium.

Established in 2007, RFI Engineering is a privately funded company, based in the Netherlands. RFI Engineering was founded by Frank Koopman (CEO) and Ivo van Ling (CTO) when they recognized the vast and growing potential of M2M.

Dedicated to protecting citizens and property, many law enforcement agencies are finding it more and more difficult to ensure public safety. Police departments face increasing demand for services and a broadening set of responsibilities. With MuniSafe’s platform, visitors and employees can report medical emergencies, criminal or suspicious activity, hazardous situations and security breaches via their smart phones. Visitors and employees can also upload images and other critical information, giving a command center full visibility until first or second responders arrive.June 2021, MuniSafe sold its IP to 4Men Ventures.

The Energy Internet is coming: a smart, responsive, decentralized network of energy and information, based on multi-directional flows of energy data; using renewable energy generation and smart storage solutions. Data has become the crucial asset for optimizing energy costs and at the same time reducing the carbon footprint. Energy (market) data together with predictions based on this data are crucial for operational as well as senior management; a strategic asset for every organization.June 2021, Dengy sold its IP to OrangeNXT, a subsidiary of the ICT Group.

NL-NVP, an Actiliy Energy company, is the leading aggregator of emergency power in the Netherlands. The company enables distributed producers of electricity to deliver power to the national grid, as well as consumers to reduce electricity offtake when the grid faces a large imbalance.July 2019, NL-NVP, an Actiliy Energy company, was sold to Veolia. Now operating as Flexcity.

Actility Energy, formerly known as Actility Benelux, offers a unique and complete end-to-end, cloud-based solution for capacity and energy management based on smart devices, an intelligent platform with smart load shifting and automated demand response services to deliver integrated innovative solutions and service offerings to the market. Actility Energy connects industrial sites and transforms each megawatt of capacity into new revenue streams while securing electricity. July 2019, Actility Energy (Actility Benelux N.V.) was sold to Veolia. Now operating as Flexcity.

The people of Bakkenist make important contributions to the commercial and operational performance of businesses in the profit and non-profit sectors. Realizing new products and services by mobilizing the available knowledge and ideas. Managing and safeguarding change and untangling projects that have run aground. Setting up and managing demand and supply in (governance) organizations on a national and international level.

he goal of the M2M-Forum association, founded late 2011, is to promote and accelerate the introduction of M2M products, solutions and services into the global marketplace. M2M-Forum aims at globalize local need, while localize global experience. M2M-Forum provides a platform to exchange of ideas, networking and business development, and acts as the industry spokesperson.The M2M-Forum is an independent initiative committed to improving the global understanding of connected solutions by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry M2M involvement.

WiMOVE is an independent wholesale supplier of managed Wi-Fi services in the Netherlands, whose strategic ambition is to become the no.1 wholesale supplier of Wi-Fi services in the Netherlands. Focus is on public outdoor areas (outdoor home). WiMOVE is well-positioned as a city operator and offers intelligent wholesale services to Wireless Internet Service Operators, Private Network Operators, and Mobile (Virtual) Network Operators to increase network capacity and reduce 3G and (future) 4G traffic overload. WiMOVE creates new revenue streams, for its customers, by taking advantage of advanced technology that provides secure delivery of location-based services to mobile devices.Specialism: City operator, Carrier-grade Wi-Fi, Wholesale services, Wi-Wi Hotzones and OffloadingJune 2014, WiMOVE suspended its operations. The end of a Wi-Fi era.

In the summer of 2009 it became clear that the magic word is gateway capacity - the ability to deliver a large amount of controlled bandwidth to a large amount of people. Imaging an affordable ASN Gateway that enables mobile operators to deploy scalable mobile WiMAX networks, capitalize on service differentiation opportunities, and streamline capital and operational costs. The Compact ASN Gateway Server enabled mobile operators to deploy scalable mobile WiMAX networks, capitalize on service differentiation opportunities and streamline capital and operational costs.December 2011, GATIX, LLC. sold its IP.

Octo-Wireless designed, manufactured and sold WiFi mesh equipment with a solutions-oriented approach driven by the desire to exceed the expectations of its customers in the smart grid utilities market and offloading telecom market. The customer list included: Control Synergy, ELAN Wireless, Inspired Systems, NASA, Raytheon, Tyco, mining companies, etc.April 2011, Octo-Wireless, LLC. was sold to ELAN Technologies, Inc.

Hopling Networks, owned by a venture capital fund, hired Frank Koopman and some of the original R&D engineers of Hopling Technologies. Hopling Networks specialized in broadband communications; in particular wireless networks and mobile WiMAX solutions. Hopling Networks assumed control of the mesh products of Hopling Technologies and continued to provide services to users worldwide.August 2009, Frank left Hopling Networks B.V.

August 2005, Hotspot Services was set up by HotSpot Amsterdam, Avadi Business Management and Hopling Holding, the parent company of Hopling Technologies, offering a powerful suite of back office programs to monitor, control and manage hotspots and hotzones. The complete solution offered remote monitoring, configuration, authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA), billing and location based services.May 2009, Hopling Services B.V. was sold to the KMM Groep.

Hopling Technologies, created late 2003, has been at the forefront of innovation in the wireless environment ever since. Hopling Technologies came to market first with a multi-hop (now generally known as mesh) dual-radio product and offered a full portfolio of single- and multi-radio wireless products. The company employed a workforce of skilled specialists, a majority of which were R&D engineers. The customer list included: European Cities, US Cities, Airports, Harbors, Railways, IBM, KDN, KPN, NASA, NS, Texaco, Total, Q8, etc.; in total over 8000 nodes were deployed at 4000 locations around the world.Responsible for the formulation and execution of Hopling Technologies' overall strategy, which focuses on near- and longer-term growth opportunities for the company. The company was a leading provider of wireless networking equipment for enterprises, operators and service providers, worldwide.September 2008, Hopling Technologies B.V. sold its IP and assets to the KMM Groep.

Based on Hopling Technologies unique multi-hop routing concept (now generally known as "mesh routing") Happy-Connect Nederland constructed and operated a large wireless network in the city of Almere. This network owning its own towers, covering an area of more than 400 hectares (1000 acres) wide, was the largest operational homogenous wireless network in Europe in 2003.The network demonstrated Hopling Technologies' mesh technology on a large scale and also offered the opportunity to test economic models for hotspots and seamless wireless mesh networks. Happy-Connect Nederland provided wireless internet and early VoIP services in Almere, the center of Amsterdam and Assen to consumers and small business users.Happy-Connect Nederland B.V. stopped serving end-customers in 2006.

UMX Technologies provided a complete software solution focusing on IBM S/390 hardware emulation and running on Intel-based servers with Windows 2000/XP. The company provided a software mainframe engine with an IBM operating system that can run any given mainframe application. As such, it provides a natural extension to IBM's mainframe offerings. UMX Virtual Machine software mainframe was based on a certified Intel computer platform ranging from a notebook to a high-end multi-processor Intel-based server using the Microsoft Windows XP graphical user interface.Between July 2002 and June 2004 UMX Technologies became a fast growing and highly innovative global company dedicated to become the leading provider of mainframe solutions for Intel-based computers..

Global Crossing Ltd. founded in March 1997 -acquired by Level 3 Communications in October 2022, which became in turn a part of CenturyLink (now Lumen Technologies)- operated as a communications solutions provider primarily in North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia/Pacific region. The company offers a range of data, voice, and collaboration services to Fortune 500 companies, as well as 700 carriers, mobile operators, and Internet service providers; and delivers converged Internet Protocol (IP) services to approximately 700 cities in 70 countries, and has 17 data centers located in principal business centers. In 1999, during the dot-com bubble, the company was valued at $47 billion.In 1999, I took on the challenge of Managing Director of Global Crossing, building a new tier-1 carrier from scratch. Upon completion of the IP-based network he led an aggressive growth plan to strengthen the company's position as a premier provider of managed services, enhanced services solutions for carriers and business solutions for corporate organizations. Responsible, as an officer of Global Crossing, for managing the entire spectrum of Global Crossing's operations throughout the Benelux. Initiated GlobalCenter in the Netherlands; Global Crossing's worldwide managed services (web hosting) company.

Vicorp International ServicesFrank served as Vice President contact center solutions, where he was responsible for Vicorp's worldwide strategy to capitalize on the changing role of contact centers as a strategic competitive advantage that not only allows a company to provide superior customer services, but also to grow its business. He introduced a sophisticated suite of software products specially designed to be used in an intelligent non-stop server based environment, to set up and manage telephone- and web-based sales, marketing and service applications.Member EMEA Board (Sales & Marketing).

Vicorp Europe HoldingFrank served as Regional Director, responsible for the central European region, where he implemented a restructuring for the German- and France-operations which resulted in a turnaround of profit margins. In addition he served as a member of the European Board and Vice President sales & marketing for Vicorp Europe. In that role Frank implemented a new European strategy based on a suite of solutions consisting of several web-enabled applications designed to be used in the various business segments of electronic commerce.Member EMEA Board (Sales & Marketing).

Vicorp NederlandVicorp was an international developer and supplier of Videotex (or Teletext) software and later made the transition to voice response, calling card and contact center platforms. One of the first voice response systems was delivered to ANWB and used for second-hand car information. Calling card customers included Proximus and Telfort (now KPN) and Vicorp's contact centers were used by all major major banks in Belgium and The Netherlands. Vicorp was also responsible for the implementation of Chipknip in The Netherlands.

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As of September 1995 responsible for all European sales, consultancy and project management Telebusiness (call center, predictive dialing, ACD switch) solutions.Director Telebusiness (1995)Director Sales & Marketing (1993-1995)Director Sales & Systems Support (1992-1995)As of April 1989 member of the management teamManager Sales Support (1989-1992)Manager Systems Support (1987-1989) Sr. Consultant major accounts (1986-1987)

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