About Acklio

Global leader on SCHC technology (IETF RFC8724) for IP over LPWANs, Acklio is a software company specialized in network protocols optimization.

French Company

Young company incorporated in 2016, headquartered in Western France (Rennes)

Research Lab Spin-off

Founded by Professors from IMT Atlantique labs, world-renowned in Telecoms, Security & Energy Efficiency

Driving standards

Contributing member and driving force at the IETF (LPWAN WG), LoRa Alliance & DLMS User Association.

Multicultural team

English-speaking team of multicultural professionals, including 5 PhDs.

Our story

Using Internet Protocols on IoT networks

The story begins at the IMT Atlantique, a major French institute with significant scientific contributions to network architecture, security and protocols - notably running the first IPv6 network in the late 1990s. It is in 2012 that our co-founders, Laurent Toutain and Alexander Pelov, started exploring the emerging low-power wide area networks (LPWANs), and demonstrated in 2014 the feasibility of applying them to standard Internet Architecture and Protocols.

For a better connected world, open and trustworthy

At Acklio, we develop and leverage standards and technologies to enable IoT networks and devices to achieve interoperability, security and energy efficiency with no tradeoffs.

Our values

The values that drive everything we do

Human First

Nurturing personal development through training, mutual respect, sharing, and support.

Openness

We are open to give and receive from the world.

Commitment

We all have a role to play on board to stay in the course

Creativity

Exploration and learning are part of our identity.

Curiosity

Exploration and learning are part of our identity.

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Our team

Founders

CEO

Alexander Pelov

CEO of Acklio, Alexander is also co-chair of the LPWAN working group within the IETF standardization body and a member of the IETF IoT Directorate. Alexander obtained his thesis in Computer Science in 2009 from the University of Strasbourg. He was then a lecturer at Télécom Bretagne until 2016. His work focused on the energy efficiency in wireless networks and the use of Smart Grids in smart meters and electric vehicles. Alexander is the co-author of more than 30 scientific papers in international conferences and journals with selection committees.

Chief Scientific Officer

Laurent Toutain

Co-founder and scientific advisor of Acklio, Laurent is also an Associate Professor at IMT Atlantique graduate engineering school. He worked for several years on IPv6 and participated in the creation of the G6 group, which has been gathering researchers and industrialists around IPv6 since 1995.From 2011 to 2015, he managed the Smart Grid competence center shared by Télécom Bretagne, Texas Instruments and ITRON. He is the author of several books on networks. His current research focuses on protocols and architectures specific to IoT’s needs.