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Invoxia

Invoxia is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Invoxia rather than just read about it. In short: 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 technology (introduced in 2017), the first connected speaker outside the Amazon ecosystem to use the Alexa voice system and a line of GPS trackers for preventing bike theft and monitoring pet activity. For the B2B m…

Key takeaways

Invoxia belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Invoxia to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Invoxia from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

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 technology (introduced in 2017), the first connected speaker outside the Amazon ecosystem to use the Alexa voice system and a line of GPS trackers for preventing bike theft and monitoring pet activity. For the B2B market, it provides fleet tracking and asset management services. It also provides industrial IoT services 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. In October 2015, Amazon announces Invoxia as a recipient of the Alexa Fund to integrate Alexa voice services into Triby.

Products NVX 610: a smart desktop and conference IP phone NVX 620 a smart desktop and conference IP phone NVX 220 a smart desktop IP phone AudiOffice a smart desktop and conference dock VoiceBridge: a device to merge landline and mobile Triby Triby IO GPS Tracker a multipurpose GPS tracking unit operating on SIGFOX and LoRaWAN networks Bike Tracker a GPS tracking unit designed for locating bicycles LongFi GPS Tracker that operates on the decentralized Helium Network Smart Dog Collar 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. Invoxia won the 2012 Red Dot Design Award for the NVX 610 VoIP Phone. Invoxia was awarded two CES Innovation Awards in 2016 in the categories "Portable Media Players and Accessories" and "Wireless Handsets." Invoxia was awarded the CES Innovation Award in 2019 in the "Wearable" category for its Pet Tracker. Invoxia was awarded the CES 2020 Innovation Award for its Bike Tracker. Invoxia was awarded two CES Innovation Awards in 2022 in the categories "Wearable Technologies" and "Health and Wellness" for its Smart Dog Collar.

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

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Invoxia

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Invoxia claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Invoxia before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Invoxia ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Invoxia

In research: Invoxia appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Invoxia in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Invoxia is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Consumer electronics brands, Electronics companies established in 2010, Electronics companies of France, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Invoxia outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Invoxia in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Invoxia means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Invoxia out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Invoxia in simple terms?

Why does Invoxia matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Invoxia?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Invoxia.