How Novoville Launched a Dual-Protocol Smart Parking Deployment in Athens — NB-IoT With Deutsche Telekom 10-Year Connectivity Plus LoRaWAN, Full Onboarding, and Team Training

Deployment Snapshot

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Dual Protocol From Day One

Most Fleximodo customers start with a single connectivity protocol — NB-IoT or LoRaWAN — and expand to the second only after months or years of operational experience. Multiconnect, for example, took 25 months and five orders before pivoting from NB-IoT to LoRaWAN. Novoville skips the single-protocol phase entirely: its first order includes both an NB-IoT parking sensor and a LoRaWAN parking sensor line, making this the first dual-protocol first order documented in the Fleximodo dataset.

The dual-protocol approach implies that Novoville has already mapped its Athens deployment sites and determined that different locations require different connectivity solutions. NB-IoT sensors (with Deutsche Telekom 10-year connectivity via GOSPACE LABS) are suited for sites where cellular coverage is strong and the deployment is distributed across a wide area — on-street parking, dispersed municipal lots, locations without existing LoRaWAN infrastructure. LoRaWAN sensors (with backend and monitoring included) are suited for concentrated sites where LoRaWAN gateway infrastructure exists or can be deployed economically — structured car parks, campus environments, dense urban blocks.

By deploying both protocols from the outset, Novoville creates a unified multi-protocol monitoring infrastructure from day one — every sensor, regardless of connectivity, reports to the same Fleximodo backend, giving Novoville a single platform view across the entire Athens deployment.

The Deutsche Telekom 10-Year Connectivity

The NB-IoT portion of the deployment uses Deutsche Telekom 10-year SIM connectivity via GOSPACE LABS — the same long-term cellular arrangement that underpins Fleximodo deployments across the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary cluster. In Greece, the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary is OTE/Cosmote — Greece's largest telecommunications operator. The 10-year SIM commitment means the NB-IoT sensors have guaranteed cellular connectivity through 2036, eliminating annual SIM renewal administration and locking in connectivity costs for a full decade.

The GOSPACE LABS intermediary provides roaming SIM management — functioning similarly to a private APN — that works across Deutsche Telekom's European subsidiary network, meaning the same SIM architecture that serves deployments in Germany (Deutsche Telekom), Czech Republic (T-Mobile CZ), Hungary (Magyar Telekom), and Slovakia (Slovak Telekom) also serves the Greek deployment via OTE/Cosmote.

Novoville: Civic Tech Meets Smart Parking

Novoville is a UK-based civic technology company that provides digital platforms for citizen engagement and municipal service delivery. The company's Greek branch, based at Antinoros 29 in central Athens, operates in the Greek municipal technology market. Novoville's entry into smart parking represents a strategic expansion from civic engagement software into physical IoT infrastructure — a natural progression for a company already embedded in municipal digital ecosystems.

For Fleximodo, Novoville represents a new customer category: a civic-tech platform company that can integrate smart parking data into broader municipal service delivery platforms. Unlike traditional parking integrators who deploy sensors as standalone parking solutions, Novoville could integrate parking availability data into citizen-facing apps, municipal dashboards accessible via CityPortal login, and urban mobility platforms — multiplying the value of each sensor beyond its parking detection function.

Full Onboarding and Team Training

The order includes a comprehensive One-Time Onboarding & Setup Support package covering:

• Initial system setup and configuration — platform provisioning, backend configuration, user account creation
• Sensor mapping — defining the geographic layout of sensors across deployment sites, associating each sensor with its physical parking space
• User onboarding — configuring user access, roles, and permissions within the Fleximodo platform
• Training for your team — hands-on training for the Novoville team on platform operation, sensor management, data interpretation, and troubleshooting
• Documentation and guidance — written materials for ongoing reference

This is one of the most explicitly detailed onboarding descriptions in the Fleximodo order record. The comprehensive scope reflects a first-time customer deploying a dual-protocol system — the onboarding complexity is higher than a single-protocol deployment, and the team training must cover both NB-IoT and LoRaWAN sensor management.

Fleximodo Dual-Protocol Deployment: Technical Profile

Specification	NB-IoT Sensors	LoRaWAN Sensors
Sensor model	IoT Parking Sensor Standard (NB-IoT, in-ground)	IoT Parking Sensor Standard (LoRaWAN, in-ground)
Detection accuracy	99.96%	99.96%
Dimensions	115 mm diameter, height 64 mm	115 mm diameter, height 64 mm
Weight	390 g	390 g
Battery lifetime	6 years operational	6 years operational
Ingress protection	IP68	IP68
Impact resistance	IK10	IK10
Connectivity	NB-IoT (Deutsche Telekom 10-year SIM via GOSPACE LABS)	LoRaWAN
Backend	Backend and monitoring included	Backend and monitoring included
Warranty	1 year standard	1 year standard
HS Code	90330090	90330090

Both the NB-IoT parking sensor and LoRaWAN parking sensor variants share the same in-ground magnetometer-plus-radar detection core, and both rely on automatic temperature compensation to hold their 99.96% detection accuracy across Athens's hot Mediterranean summers and cooler winter mornings — the compensation continuously offsets the magnetic-field drift that temperature swings would otherwise introduce.

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Fleximodo smart parking technology is deployed in 30+ countries. View all products | See DOTSOFT's Propontida municipal deployment | See Multiconnect's LoRaWAN protocol pivot

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why deploy both NB-IoT and LoRaWAN from the first order? Different deployment sites have different connectivity requirements. NB-IoT (with 10-year Deutsche Telekom cellular SIMs) suits distributed on-street locations with strong cellular coverage. LoRaWAN suits concentrated sites with existing or deployable gateway infrastructure. Dual protocol from day one creates a unified multi-protocol monitoring platform without the delay of a later protocol expansion.

What does the onboarding package include? Comprehensive first-deployment support: system setup and configuration, sensor mapping across deployment sites, user onboarding with roles and permissions, hands-on team training on platform operation and sensor management, and written documentation for ongoing reference. This is calibrated for a first-time customer deploying a dual-protocol system.

How does Novoville's civic-tech background affect the deployment? As a civic technology company already embedded in municipal digital ecosystems, Novoville can integrate parking availability data into broader citizen engagement platforms, municipal dashboards, and urban mobility services — multiplying the value of each sensor beyond standalone parking detection.

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