is this project still alive ? 
You should join the social media channels to get updates on time. Yes, they are alive and moving forward with nice spirit towards their goals and they are getting wonderful response from big companies and they are expanding their services to more countries. I believe in future it will rock.
There is only one question: how fast this future can be? Anyway, as for me investments in SONM ICO was a big mistake. I also made investments in Bitqueens approximately at that time, when SONM ICO was active. And those investments gave me x10. So that's was good investments. I don't want to say, that SONM team isn't working, and this project hasn't a future. But when I invest money in some project, the main thing for me is result. But there is no result for this time here.