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Beijing COTX Networks Technologies Co., Ltd.

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Application to become an approved third party manufacturer as per HIP19

Summary

Glad to be HIP19 again!

COTX Networks offers carrier-grade IoT management-platform and all-in-one IoT solutions. With competitive supply chain and strong R&D team, COTX designs and manufactures ranges of innovative, high-performance IoT gateways. Its first model indoor Hotspot COTX-X3 has been integrated to Helium Network successfully. Considering outdoor Hotspot is needed to make Helium network’s deployment more effective, we designed another full Hotspot for outdoor use, its model name is COTX-X5.

Picture shown below is the COTX-X5 series Raspberry Pi4 based LoRaWAN gateway.

Company Information

Founded in June, 2017 and headquartered in Beijing, COTX Networks Technologies Co., Ltd. is specialized in the R&D and manufacturing of IoT Security gateways and has expanded international marketing department now to Shenzhen. The founder, Mr.Fan Chenglong, was also the founder of HAN Networks(www.han-networks.com), which was the access point supplier of Alcatel-lucent. Please refer to https://www.al-enterprise.com/en/products/wlan for the OEM AP products from HANS Networks. He was also the founder of Petfon Trackers(www.petfon.com), a hot-selling product on Amazon US station. Mr. Fan Chenglong established COTX Networks that focuses on security IoT gateway, with course as following:

  • Oct, 2016, Incubated pre-research and market&product research；

  • Jun, 2017, formally established in Beijing and began to focus on the commercialization of IOT solutions；

  • Feb, 2018, release IoT enabling platform, trusted identity service and IoT gateway “COTX-X” series products；

  • May, 2018, The solution of COTX have made a breakthrough with China Unicom and China Tower, and become their core partner；

  • Dec, 2018, China Tower innovation projects started；

  • Jan, 2019, Shuzhi Technology (Meteno) Smart Light Pole Project Started；

  • Jan, 2019, got strategic investment from Topsec Group；

  • Jun, 2020, the smart national museum project；

  • Sep, 2020, wisdom peace community projects；

  • Oct, 2020, the Ministry of Transport video on cloud project；

  • Oct, 2020, state grid in ubiquitous IoT projects；

  • Jul.2021 COTX-X3 Hotspot for Helium networks Approved;

As an existing manufacturer of Hotspot, we will keep investing in research and development to improve the ECO system of People’s network.

Product Information

COTX product portfolio consists of IoT modules, LoRa gateways, node devices and all-in one solutions. We have over 80 varieties of products in active production. They offer high quality, outstanding radio performances and carrier-grade security, and support US915, AU915, AS923, EU868, IN865, RU867, CN470 etc. Please consult https://www.cotxnetworks.com/ for the full product list.

We have recently developed a new outdoor gateway compatible with Helium network. This product is named as COTX X5 Miner.

Like our Smart LoRa Gateways, Helium Hotspot X5 Miner features:

  • Powered by Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4B, 64GB SD Card storage

  • Comes with a LoRa gateway processor SX1302

  • Power Over Ethernet Connectivity

  • WiFi IEEE802.11a/b/g/n

  • Bluetooth connectivity

  • 4G connectivity

  • Frequency band: 470MHz/868MHz/915MHz/923MHz and others

  • Coverage radius: 5km in city, 10km in rural area

  • Voltage DC 5V

  • Size: 19222782mm

  • Comes with ECC Key to securely store swarm keys

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What is your approximate price point?

Our outdoor Hotspot X5 price range is between 539-579usd according to the order quantity.

Please provide detailed hardware designs, including relevant parts

Evidence of a functioning prototype - photos, videos. Renderings are OK but physical prototypes are much, much better. Your plan for software setup and configuration for the devices. This would presumably include remote updates and the ability for hosts to change wifi settings, via Helium's official app or otherwise.

What is your expected production and delivery timeline?

Lead time for bulk order will be 6-8weeks.

Previous shipments

We shipped a lot of Petfon Trackers(www.petfon.com) which is a hot-selling product on Amazon US station to USA market. We have also shipped bulk order to Europe market.

Startups welcome!

We have shipped indoor Hotspot to Europe including countries of Romania, UK, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Bulgium, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland. We are going to open Europe, USA and Chinese market with COTX outdoor full Hotspot.

Customer Support

We will handle the after-sales issues with online upgrades through the lifetime of products. This model will have online upgrade and maintaining dashboard from web, it also supports OTA and APP BLE configuration.

About repairs and replacements within warranty period of 1year:

If the device is defective due to our manufacturing process shipping/mishandling on our part we will immediately offer a new replacement free of charge.

If the device/one of modules is defective due to user mishandling/error we could repair or arrange ship-out a replacement part at a reasonable price. This includes case, raspberry pi motherboard, power supply and antenna.

Hardware Security Element

Currently we are planning the following:

  • Our X5 full Hotspot gateways will store their swarm_key on an ECC chip as requested. In the case of operating system got corrupted, that the user could recover their miner easily.
  • We will be more than happy to submit prototypes for audit. For future products we are consistently evaluating more options including other security element chips.

Hardware Information

  • The mainboard is Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4B and LoRa module processor is SX1302.
  • WE are using ECC608 (swarm) chip for security element.
  • We are using components of Semtech、Qualcomm、Skyworks、Microchip、AVAGO、TI、MTK、Winbond、Sliconlabs、ST、Muruta, and sourcing from franchised channels including Arrow Electronics，WT Microelectronics，Avnet，Cecport.
  • We can procure from Semtech 200k-300k SX1302 chipset in 2022.

Manufacturing Information

COTX Networks invested significantly in R&D and launches numerous gateways each year for various projects including applications of smart street, smart computer room, national museum, smart greenhouse. Those include hardware of LoRaWAN indoor gateway, outdoor gateway, AIOT edge gateway, integrated gateway etc. We are the main hardware& platform supplier of TOPSEC, SHUZHI.AI, TST, well known brands in China. What is more, as an OEM/ODM manufacturer, we have already produced over 50,000 sets LoRa trackers to Petfon in high quality, and 10,000 EUR standard indoor full Hotspot has been finished and ready to ship by the end of September,2021.

Proof of Identity

To be submitted privately to DeWi. We have finished KYC by first time application for our indoor Hotspot.

Budget & Capital

We aim to produce 5000-10000pcs X5 Miner hotspots as our first batch, then steadily provide 10000 units each month. COTX have sufficient funds to produce large volumes. For our existing indoor X3 model, our supply chain and production line have provided sufficient capacity and have large surplus.

Risks & Challenges

The greatest challenge in our opinion is that the supply chain of SX1302 with price volatility currently. We will solve it with a rich running stock, extra 10000 pieces chipsets or even more will arrive for stable materials supply.

Other information

Payment methods available

  • T/T, AliPay, WechatPay

Regions covered

Shipped to - Europe, USA, China, Thailand, Philippines, Australia