Presentation by Dr.-Ing. Corentin Dupont Technical Director, WAZIUP e.V. FIWARE Global Summit 21-22 May 2019 - Genoa, Italy

1. WAZIUP Initiative
Cost-effective IoT for SDG2030
Dr.-Ing.CorentinDupont
TechnicalDirector,WAZIUPe.V.

2. Digital transformation of Africa
•Technology (e.g. IoT) and young people
are the center of the transformation
•Vision to redesign homegrown cost-
effective alternative
•Entrepreneur and start-ups for social
innovation
•Lot of accelerator programs in Africa

3. WAZIHUB: Pan African IoT Innovation hub
Outreach 20
countries in Africa
to create 100 of
start-ups

4. WAZIHUB: Value proposition
• Offer IoT hardware development kit for rapid
prototyping
• Fully royalty free access to IoT Open API and
Cloud platform to develop customized
applications.
• Access to industrial experts, access to users.
• Training and capacity building
• Program is open and free of charge

5. WAZIHUB IoT tech prototyping program
•The program is made up of three phases
namely
Ideation and
Capacity
building
Incubator
MVP
Prototyping
3 monthsContinuous

6. 6
Technology Support:
“Out-of-Box” LoRa IoT
development kit including
SDK. The kit will cost
maximum 100 Euro and offer
all the features to develop
IoT sensor application
Tech Accelerator:
Accelerator programs for
technical and business
capacity building through
training, seminars and
workshops
Sustainability:
Foster the creation of local
IoT ecosystems. The
ecosystem will include major
users and actors from various
disciplines, including those
with industry backgrounds.
Online
training

7. 7
WAZIUP: Cost-effective full-stake IoT LoRa
open source tools
Addressing the internet connection problems

8. 8
WAZIUP: IoT LoRa development kit
The development kit is fully based on Open hardware
Arduino and Raspberry-pi

9. 9
WAZIUP: IoT Cloud platform
• Open API to manage devices,
data and users
• Ready to use dashboard to
manage the users and devices
• Using HTML code example, one
can develop application with
few click and host on Github
• Support simply Users interface
for notification (SMS, USSD, etc.)

10. 10
WAZIFARM: Farming application tools
• Free to use tool for development
of farming application
• Advanced data analytic and
visualization application platform
dedicated for farming solutions
• Manage farm resources, inputs
and feeding practices and
scheduling

11. Network of IoT Innovation hubs

12. Our WaziHacks and bootcamps
We organized more than 10 WaziHack and bootcamps
around 10 African countries

13. 13
ElevUpIncubateur Connecté
Benin
Cattle rustling
Senegal
Fish farming
Ghana
Urban waste
Togo
Urbanatic
Togo
African IoT entrepreneurs

14. 14
Application deployment & technical validation:
• Agriculture (Soil moisture + Weather station)
• Fish farming
• Cattle rustling
End-to-end applications solutions

15. Interne Orange
Our vision: local Adaptation of IoT
with hubs and entrepreneurs
Made in Africa

16. Thanks.
Let’s make it happen
facebook.com/waziupIoT
twitter.com/waziupIoT
linkedin.com/groups/8156933
github.com/waziup
Corentin Dupont, PhD
Technical Director
corentin.dupont@waziup.org
www.waziup.org
www.waziup.io