KERLINK (EPA:ALKLK) - Kerlink and Telemar Demonstrating Smart-Building Benefits in Proof-of-Concept near Vicenza, Italy

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28/02/2018 08:00

Kerlink and Telemar Demonstrating Smart-Building Benefits in
Proof-of-Concept near Vicenza, Italy

Pilot Projects Expected to Follow

PRESS RELEASE

Barcelona, Spain - Feb. 28, 2018, 8:00 a.m. CET - Kerlink (ALKLK -
FR0013156007), a specialist and global leader in solutions dedicated to the
Internet of Things (IoT), and Telemar, a local provider of Information and
Communications Technology in eastern Italy, today announced deployment of a
smart-building network for monitoring air temperature in buildings near
Vicenza. The project is one of the first LoRaWAN(TM) smart-building projects in
Italy.

The proof-of-concept project in Piovene Rocchette involves two buildings near
the Town Hall. With thermostats in each room, the system generates data and
information about air temperature and conditioning, heating and freezing. The
customized LoRaWAN(TM) network deployment includes Kerlink Wirnet(TM) iBTS
Standard outdoor and Wirnet(TM) iFemtoCell indoor gateways, 17 temperature
sensors and 14 actuators. Users can control each room's temperature, including
turning heat on or off, simply using a smartphone.

The proof of concept project is expected to be completed in March, when
performance results will be released to the public, and a pilot project will
begin. That project's aim is to reduce the city's heating bills, while
maintaining comfortable temperatures in buildings. Buildings in the pilot
project include a day-care center, a nursery, a warehouse, a primary and a
secondary school, 12 athletic-stadium locker rooms and a library. Each room
will have a thermostat that will monitor thermal conditions and specific
parameters, such temperature, humidity, airflow, heat output, electricity
consumption and even the water-boiling temperature in the school canteen.

Telemar has developed an IoT network on the Vicenza area, starting from the
north of the region and continuing to cover the entire area of Veneto.

"Everything will be connected in the coming years because of technology, which
is already and will increasingly influence the way we live and work," said
Enrico Cascioli, CEO of Telemar spa. "This project with Kerlink was created to
put connectivity to work for cities, to spread the smart-city concept across
our territory and to increase its economy and possibilities."

Wirnet iBTS Standard in Vicenza

"With this proof-of-concept project, Telemar and Kerlink are laying the
foundation for a larger and more comprehensive project in the Vicenza area that
will demonstrate the range and benefits of deploying LoraWAN(TM) networks for
smart-city applications," said Yan Bauduin, Kerlink Infrastructures Solutions
business unit sales director. "Once fully deployed, the network will be able to
offer the benefits of the Internet of Things for a wide range of use cases."

About Kerlink Group
Kerlink Group is a global leading provider of end-to-end network solutions for
the Internet of Things (IoT), serving telecom operators, businesses and public
authorities worldwide. Its growing suite of turnkey IoT services includes
network planning, design and operational management that maximizes performance
of its market-leading, carrier-grade infrastructure offering. The Group, widely
recognized for its IoT expertise, also continually introduces innovative
value-added services, such as network-based geolocation, remote end-device
management and low- power IoT reference design, which allows its customers to
quickly bring to market IoT-ready devices and to imagine innovative business
models to monetize their deployments.

In just over 10 years, more than 100,000 Kerlink installations have been
deployed in more than 69 countries. In 2017 Kerlink supplied more than 330
customers, including major telecom operators such as Tata Communications, and
service providers such as GrDF and Suez. The company's solutions are enabling
IoT networks worldwide with major deployments in Europe, South Asia, South
America and Oceania. Kerlink, a co-founder and board member of the LoRa
Alliance(TM), has invested more than EUR10 million in research in the past
three years. In 2017, Kerlink Group generated revenues of nearly EUR25 million,
more than 50 percent internationally. Since 2013, it has posted average annual
growth of more than 62 percent. It has been listed on Euronext Growth Paris
since May 2016 and was added to the EnterNext PEA-PME 150, an index of 150
fast-growing French SMEs, in 2017.

For more information, visit www.kerlink.com or follow us on Twitter
@kerlink_news.

About Telemar
Telemar Spa, established in 1995, is one of the biggest Internet Service
Providers in North Italy. It offers internet connection in the whole Vicenza
province and in other areas of Treviso, Padova and Verona. Telemar is a company
that aims not only to provide internet services, but also tries to digitalize
and strongly improves its territory. Since 2006 Telemar Spa is also a wireless
internet service provider with a network realized in wireless technology that
covers most of the area of the province of Vicenza.

Telemar is a strategic partner for many companies in the Veneto region, active
seven days a week thanks to an important service and assistance activity
carried out on its own ISO / IEC 27001: 2013 certified data center and able to
offer specialized web marketing services due to the internal web agency.
Telemar is currently focusing its main efforts on the IOT area. Its interest is
focused on the LoRaWAN(TM) protocol, officially released in its first version
in June 2015. Special features of the LoRaWAN(TM) protocol are perfect for
rapid development of Telemar's network dedicated to I.O.T. exploiting the
existing network infrastructure. Telemar has therefore become member of the new
LoRa Alliance(TM), obtaining its NetID.

For more information visit www.tiot.it and www.telemar.it

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Telemar press contact:
Lucia Los Marketing
+39 0444 291302
lucia.los@telemar.it

Kerlink's Investor contact:
Actifin Benjamin Lehari
+33 (0)1 56 88 11 25
blehari@actifin.fr

Kerlink's Press and Market Analysts contact:
Mahoney Lyle
Céline Gonzalez
+33 (0)6 75 85 60 42
cgonzalez@mahoneylyle.com

Kerlink's Financial Press contact:
Actifin
Isabelle Dray
+33 (0)1 56 88 11 29
idray@actifin.fr

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