Invoxia

Invoxia

Company type	Private
Industry	Consumer electronics
Founded	2010;15 years ago (2010)
Founder	Eric Carreel | Serge Renouard
Headquarters	Issy les Moulineaux, France.
Key people	Éric Carreel (Président) Amélie Caudron (CEO)
Products	Speakers, Phones, audio equipment, Professional audio, Wearable technology, Pet accessories,
Number of employees	50 (2021)
Website	invoxia.com

Invoxia is a French consumer electronics company known for the design and development of innovative smart devices that use artificial intelligence, such as the first GPS tracker on the market to use LoRa ^[1] technology (introduced in 2017), the first connected speaker outside the Amazon ecosystem to use the Alexa ^[2] voice system and a line of GPS trackers for preventing bike theft ^[3] and monitoring pet activity. ^[4] For the B2B market, it provides fleet tracking and asset management services. ^[5] It also provides industrial IoT services ^[6] including hardware design and development and the training and integration of neural networks.

Invoxia was founded in 2010 by the French serial entrepreneur Éric Careel (also Withings, Sculpteo and Zoov) and Serge Renouard.

Invoxia is backed by Newfund since 2012. In 2013, Invoxia took control of the ancestral telephone manufacturer Swissvoice. ^[7]

In October 2015, Amazon ^[8] announces Invoxia as a recipient of the Alexa Fund ^[9] to integrate Alexa voice services ^[10] into Triby.

Products

• NVX 610: ^{[11] [12]} a smart desktop and conference IP phone
• NVX 620 ^[13] a smart desktop and conference IP phone
• NVX 220 ^[14] a smart desktop IP phone
• AudiOffice ^[15] a smart desktop and conference dock
• VoiceBridge: ^[16] a device to merge landline and mobile
• Triby ^[17]
• Triby IO ^[18]
• GPS Tracker ^[19] a multipurpose GPS tracking unit operating on SIGFOX and LoRaWAN networks
• Bike Tracker ^[20] a GPS tracking unit designed for locating bicycles
• LongFi GPS Tracker ^[21] that operates on the decentralized Helium Network
• Smart Dog Collar ^[22] a biometric monitoring collar for dogs, with heart and respiratory rate measurement capability

Awards

• Invoxia was awarded the CES Best Innovation Award 2012 for its Smart Office Phone at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. ^[23]
• Invoxia won the 2012 Red Dot Design Award for the NVX 610 VoIP Phone. ^[24]
• Invoxia was awarded two CES Innovation Awards in 2016 in the categories "Portable Media Players and Accessories" and "Wireless Handsets." ^{[25] [26]}
• Invoxia was awarded the CES Innovation Award in 2019 in the "Wearable" category for its Pet Tracker. ^[27]
• Invoxia was awarded the CES 2020 Innovation Award for its Bike Tracker. ^[28]
• Invoxia was awarded two CES Innovation Awards in 2022 in the categories "Wearable Technologies" and "Health and Wellness" for its Smart Dog Collar. ^[29]

Further reading

• Newfund.fr
• Usinenouvelle.com
• Lesechos.fr Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine

References

1. "Invoxia unveils Roadie, the next-generation GPS tracker that works on low-power networks" (PDF) (Press release). Berlin, Germany: Invoxia. 2017-08-31. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
2. "Amazon Announces the Next Alexa Fund Recipient: Invoxia : Alexa Blogs". developer.amazon.com. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
3. "The 1st Connected Reflective Light that Secures the Bike - Invoxia Bike Tracker Review". ChipIn. 2019-09-06. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
4. Margolis, Jonathan (2020-08-08). "How to keep track of Tiddles – wherever he may toddle". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
5. "Monitoring and optimising vehicle fleets or professional equipment | Invoxia". tracking.invoxia.com. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
6. "Invoxia Industrial IoT: production line optimisation". Invoxia. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
7. "Smart Telecommunications Courtesy of Invoxia". Forbes .
8. Amazon Invests In Invoxia: Voice-Activated Assistant Alexa Coming To The $199 Triby. techtimes.com. Retrieved 2024-07-24
9. "Amazon Announces the Next Alexa Fund Recipient: Invoxia : Alexa Blogs".
10. "Alexa Fund backs France's Invoxia to expand use of Amazon's voice technology". 19 October 2015. Archived from the original on 21 May 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
11. "Invoxia NVX 610 desktop VoIP phone review". 23 February 2012.
12. "Invoxia NVX 610". 7 January 2013. Archived from the original on 7 April 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
13. "Invoxia NVX 620 NVX 620 VoIP Desktop and Conferenc... | PCWorld". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
14. "Invoxia's stylish desktop phone puts your mobile device to work". 6 January 2014.
15. "Invoxia's AudiOffice, the Business Dock for Music and Voice".
16. "Landlines (Remember those?) can now go mobile with Voice Bridge". 24 August 2015.
17. "Triby review: A speaker, message-board device is an obvious home for Amazon's Alexa". 5 May 2016.
18. "Triby IO wants to control your smart home". www.wareable.com. Archived from the original on 2017-01-07.
19. Ricker, Thomas (2018-10-31). "Invoxia GPS Tracker review: longevity and range from a new kind of network". The Verge. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
20. Lovejoy, Ben (2019-09-25). "Review: The Invoxia GPS bike tracker provides peace of mind... in some places". 9to5Mac. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
21. "This Tracker Uses Helium Hot Spots to Locate Your Valuables". Wired. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
22. updated, Rhys Wood last (2022-01-04). "This smart dog collar is one of the coolest things we've seen yet from CES 2022". TechRadar. Retrieved 2022-01-27.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
23. "Invoxia unveils the AudiOffice, a $299 speaker dock for iDevices (Video)". 18 July 2019.
24. "Red Dot Design Award: invoxia NVX 610". www.red-dot.org. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
25. "Triby is a home WiFi phone (And wireless speaker) for your fridge". 18 July 2019.
26. "CES 2016 : les annonces de la French Tech à Las Vegas". www.journaldunet.com (in French). 6 January 2016. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
27. "CES 2019 : Invoxia présente le Pet Tracker". mtom-mag.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-01-20.
28. "2020 Innovation Award Product Invoxia Bike Tracker". CES. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
29. "Innovation Award Honorees - CES 2022". ces.tech. Archived from the original on 2022-01-27. Retrieved 2022-01-27.