French M2M and IoT network provider Sigfox has partnered with Securitas Direct and Abertis Telecom in Spain to link millions of home and premises security alarms. The group says is one of the largest deployments of devices on the IoT. The deal will see the Securitas alarms connected to and monitored by the Sigfox cloud platform, with connectivity provided by Abertis’ network of dedicated Sigfox cell towers. The Sigfox network has been built to carry two-way communications consisting of small messages i.e. the archetypal IoT transmission, which Sigfox says eliminates the cost and energy-usage barriers to IoT implementation – key to achieving mass deployments of low-power devices. We spoke to Sigfox’s Head of Communication, Thomas Nicholls, to learn more about…