Continuous innovation of the robust and high-capacity LoRaWAN open standard has led to the most LPWAN deployments globally across terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (NTNs).

The LoRa Alliance®, today launched its formal roadmap, which highlights LoRaWAN’s evolution from building and interconnecting networks through its focus on making the technology faster and easier to deploy, work that has successfully made LoRaWAN the leading LPWAN with the most deployments supporting IoT’s active scaling across numerous end markets.

The roadmap also showcases the planned development of the LoRaWAN open standard for IoT communications.

“LoRaWAN is a purpose-built networking technology to support massive IoT,” said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “The members of the LoRa Alliance have been diligent in their work to lay the foundation strategically evolving LoRaWAN to achieve the significant scaling that is taking place in IoT. Not only is our technology best of breed and proven across multiple multimillion-sensor deployments, but it is also backed by the largest ecosystem with the greatest number and diversity of certified devices. Further, it offers the widest variety of deployment options across terrestrial networks and satellite NTNs, including hybrid networking approaches. As such, it is the only LPWAN that can address the requirements of any organization looking to deploy large-scale, low-power IoT solutions today.”

The roadmap outlines the planned enhancements of several critical features already incorporated in the LoRaWAN standard:

Expanding Addressable Markets

• Enhances connectivity for NTN LoRaWAN through, for example, further optimization of the long range–frequency hopping spread spectrum (LR-FHSS), which enables LoRaWAN to far surpass the projected network-capacity requirements of massive IoT.
• Make relay enhancements that increase LoRaWAN signals’ reach in noisy or physically challenging environments to allow sensors to be deployed anywhere.
• Add fast and low-power network discovery, which offers new deployment options where coverage is not permanent, like mobile gateways, allowing walk-by or drive-by applications and adding significant value for key markets like utilities, where LoRaWAN dominates in terms of deployment volumes.

Hyperscalability

• Simplify deployments with easier device profile management and device migration.
• Carry GS1-compliant identifiers, such as RFIDs, barcodes, electronic product codes (EPC) over LoRaWAN, to enable devices connected via LoRaWAN to be used for product/asset identification.
• Facilitate LoRaWAN end-device onboarding by LoRaWAN networks with automated device profile downloads, which automatically request the device profiles from online repositories using a standard API, building on prior work of LoRa Alliance QR code.

Core Network Management

• Strengthen device interoperability by standardizing the application server and gateway interfaces.

Certification

• Drive customer confidence through the addition of firmware updates over the air and relay to LoRaWAN certification testing, allowing end-device manufacturers to validate the performance of these features.
• Give end users confidence in cross-vendor device interoperability by adding advanced interoperability testing into the LoRaWAN certification test suite. This testing will validate that devices from different manufacturers can effectively exchange and make use of each other’s information.

Physical/Link Layer Development

• Introduce crypto-agility to LoRaWAN, so the variety of current and future crypto-suites can be used as add-ons with the LoRaWAN Link Layer without having to evolve the latter.

As IoT moves from millions to billions of connections, as is forecast in the next few years, network scalability is a key consideration that is addressed in the current standard and slated for future enhancements. Smart metering is one key market where LoRaWAN has established a market-leading position with the current specification delivering abundant network capacity to address market requirements. Recognizing the growth in IoT connections that will be enabled by satellite and other NTNs, the Alliance developed LR-FHSS for massive, global LoRaWAN connectivity. As part of its planned roadmap, the LoRa Alliance will continue to enhance and expand the standard based on market needs and new use cases.

One example that illustrates LoRaWAN’s existing high-capacity capability is the ZENNER network, with nearly 7.5 million sensors running on more than 100,000 gateways in 15 countries to support energy providers, the housing industry, cities and municipalities, municipal utilities and industrial operations. As this example shows, the LoRaWAN standard easily addresses today’s IoT capacity requirements.

“ZENNER has moved this proven technology to its larger-scale deployments with water, gas and electric municipalities. In the United States, ZENNER has already installed systems in seven communities this year alone. LoRaWAN technology makes an open standard system easy to install and at a lower cost for our customers. In addition, utilities can offer a mass number of other services to their customer base due to this open standard, which will enrich their customers as well as themselves. ZENNER is currently testing LoRaWAN satellite communication and how that fits into our IoT direction. To date it has shown great promise and at a reasonable cost for our customers. We are seeing an immense amount of interest in LoRaWAN that will feed the growth of our company on a global basis. The LoRa Alliance is the organization that has laid out the plan that got us here and has structured plans that take us into the future. ZENNER is a proud sponsor of the Alliance and values its other members. As a company we cannot ask for a better organization to help us in developing our IoT strategy.”
–– Rich Sanders, president, ZENNER USA, and treasurer, LoRa Alliance Board of Directors

“From its inception, the technical and performance advantages of LoRaWAN have been embraced by customers needing a comprehensive solution for deploying and managing large-scale sensor-based applications. The ongoing innovation represented in the development roadmap presented by the LoRa Alliance today continues to firmly establish the technology as a standout choice for a growing number of use cases, including those requiring enhanced or expanded connectivity delivered by relays, mobile gateways and non-terrestrial networks. For Netmore and our global customers, these advantages translate to leadership positions in service optimization, cost savings, regulatory compliance and resource conservation. This is most evident in the utility and energy sectors, where metering and infrastructure monitoring solutions are rapidly scaling, network deployment times and costs are being reduced, and compliance and ROI are being achieved faster—all while contributing positively to the planet. Netmore is a strong supporter of the LoRa Alliance and the LoRaWAN ecosystem. With LoRaWAN, Netmore is not just leading, we’re defining the market. And with our unwavering focus on sustainability and environmental stewardship, we’re not just a network operator, but a proud catalyst for a greener, more sustainable world.”
–– Ove Anebygd, CEO, Netmore Group AB, and LoRa Alliance Board Member

“It is tremendously validating to look at the future of the LoRaWAN standard and know that we are building from an exceptionally broad and solid foundation,” continued Moore.

“Time after time, our members share their real-world deployments that are successfully using LoRaWAN at scale to improve the well-being of people and the planet while running profitable enterprises. This truly exemplifies the strength, breadth and depth of the LoRaWAN standard today and the unlimited potential of LoRaWAN as we continue to evolve and enhance its features.”

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Event Highlights Technology’s Rapid Growth Across All Sectors Including Smart Industries, Cities, Buildings, Utilities and Agriculture.

The LoRa Alliance®, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® standard for the internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), today announced the preliminary program for LoRaWAN Live Munich, taking place June 19-20 at the Westin Grand Munich.

The event focuses on all aspects of LoRaWAN, the leading global LPWAN technology, addressing how companies are scaling with multiple use cases and rolling out deployments across numerous sites and facilities. The program has a strong focus on the industrial internet of things (IIoT), covering LoRaWAN technology, deployments, use cases and how to achieve a strong return on investment via a series of panels, presentations and networking activities. The gold sponsors for the event are Browan Communications and ZENNER. Rounding out the list of sponsors are Digi International, STMicroelectronics, EchoStar Mobile, Murata, Semtech, WIKA, Actility, Adeunis, Alpha-Omega Technology, Kerlink, MultiTech and TEKTELIC Communications.

“The value of bringing together the global LoRaWAN ecosystem cannot be overstated,” said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “LoRaWAN Live is consistently the ‘must-attend’ event for end users seeking to find solutions and deploy the technology, as well as for companies developing products and solutions using LoRaWAN. This year’s program will build on our recent successes across smart cities, buildings and utilities and will showcase LoRaWAN’s strengths for accelerating deployments across industrial sectors. We’re returning to Germany because of its historic leadership in industry and manufacturing, and central to the program is how smart industry leverages LoRaWAN to meet the sustainability, productivity and workforce goals of Industry 5.0. I look forward to connecting with our global audience to discover the latest LoRaWAN developments, find solutions and learn how to grow business.”

LoRaWAN Live Munich will feature insightful sessions on best practices for large deployments, technology innovation, and success stories highlighting new feature adoption and achieving ROI. The engaging program also includes a products and solutions marketplace, mainstage keynotes and VIP speakers, live demonstrations and plenty of networking opportunities. A live LoRaWAN network will also be deployed, allowing attendees to see solutions using LoRaWAN in action, courtesy of Network Sponsor Actility.

Program highlights include:

Keynote

• LoRaWAN Leads the New Industrial Revolution, Donna Moore, CEO, LoRa Alliance, with panelists from Mercedes-Benz and Bechtle

Sessions

• Gold Sponsor: From Dots to Value: Browan’s Next-Gen Solutions, Browan Communications
• Gold Sponsor: Pioneering Digital Innovation | How LoRaWAN Empowers Minol-ZENNER Group’s IoT Evolution, ZENNER
• LoRaWAN Drives Hospital Transformations, Aritium Technologies and Viamed Salud
• Using RSSI Values and GPS Coordinates from LoRaWAN Packets to Generate a Spatial Heat Map for Network Coverage Visualization, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• The Fusion of LoRaWAN and Satellite for IoT Solutions, IoT Analytics
• LoRaWAN at CERN: From Covid Tracking to Radiation-Tolerant Accelerator Monitoring, CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
• LoRaWAN Successes in Germany’s Industrial Sector, Featuring Henkel and Airbus Helicopters, Actility and Pepperl+Fuchs
• Success and Opportunities for Scaling LoRaWAN in the Smart City of Hamburg, Stromnetz Hamburg
• Italgas’ Nimbus Rollout: First Results from the Most Advanced Gas Smart Meter in the World, Italgas
• A Look at Certification for Manufacturers and End Users and the Latest Program Updates, LoRa Alliance and ZENNER Connect

Panels

• Empowering Sustainability: Water Management and Preservation, featuring Acquedotto Pugliese, the City of Brussels, Infotiles, Lyse Tele and NTT Data, moderated by Semtech
• Real Experiences and Benefits of LoRaWAN for Smart Gas Metering, featuring Adani Total Gas, AWS, Dicode Technologies and Vestitel, moderated by Semtech
• The Journey to Make Cities Smart with LoRaWAN, featuring süc//dacor/City of Coburg, Germany, the Town of Cary, North Carolina, and Wien Energie/City of Vienna, Austria, moderated by ZENNER
• Smart Farms from Barn to Field and Flock, featuring Wandering Shepherd, WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. and Wyld Networks, moderated by the Center for IoT Engineering and Innovation, East Carolina University

Visit the event website for the latest program updates.

Attendees will have the opportunity to dive into a world of possibilities in the marketplace, where teams of experts will guide them through the intricacies of LoRaWAN and show various products, devices and services enabled by LoRaWAN. The marketplace will feature exhibits and demonstrations from Actility, Adeunis, akenza, Alpha-Omega Technology, Browan Communications, Decentlab, Digi International, Disrupt-X, EchoStar Mobile, ELSYS, Enginko, IMST, Kerlink, Lacuna Space, Micropelt, MOKO Technology, Plenom, Milesight, Murata, MultiTech, Seeed Studio, SEMTECH, SenRa, Minew, STACKFORCE, STMicroelectronics, TagoIO, TEKTELIC Communications, TWTG, Thermokon – Home of Sensor Technology, WATTECO, WIKA, Wyld Networks and ZENNER. Media sponsors include Bee Smart City, Embedded Computing Design, IoT Business News, IoT for All, IoT Insider and Servizi a Rete.

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The LoRa Alliance®, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® standard for the internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), today issued its 2023 End of Year Report.

It highlights the LoRa Alliance’s incredible achievements throughout the year, in addition to providing updates on LoRaWAN deployments, technology and certification advancements.

Trends highlighted in this year’s report include:

• LoRaWAN is seeing strong global deployment growth across several vertical markets, including smart buildings, utilities, cities, agriculture and industry.
• There is continued diversification of the Alliance’s collaborative ecosystem, which drove end-to-end IoT solutions.
• Deployments are delivering strong ROI, which in turn is accelerating the decision-making process for new users and projects.
• Smart cities are increasingly requiring LoRaWAN certified end-devices in their RFPs.
• LoRaWAN took a leadership position in Industry 5.0 as it meets the sustainability, efficiency and quality-of-life requirements.
• The benefits and ROI of LoRaWAN deployments are exponential when end users collaborate with system integrators and solution providers.
• LoRaWAN is the leader in the emerging satellite-based LPWAN communications market, with multiple member companies delivering networking via satellite and rapidly growing deployments in the sector.
• The Alliance is meeting the emerging workforce needs of the IoT with its LoRaWAN Accredited Professional program, giving end users confidence in the vendors they select.

“In 2023, key end markets such as cities, buildings and utilities widely embraced LoRaWAN and the ROI it provides, leading to large-scale deployments that sparked further innovation in use cases,” stated Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “The demand for certified LoRaWAN devices within these essential sectors continues to grow as it is critical for massive device rollouts. Confidence in LoRaWAN was further reinforced through our Accredited Professional program, which addresses end users’ desire for a way to evaluate vendors’ knowledge of the development and implementation of LoRaWAN. As the leader in global LPWAN deployments, we anticipate an even stronger year in 2024.”

“We continued to see strong growth globally in IoT deployments in 2023, with LoRaWAN clearly established as the market leader in LPWANs,” said Robin Duke-Woolley, CEO and Chief Analyst, Beecham Research.

“With its established and active ecosystem, considerable involvement of system integrators and solution providers, and expansive features, including connectivity via satellite, we expect LoRaWAN will see strong growth again in 2024 as the IoT continues to mature.”

Other highlights from the 2023 report:

• IEC and CEN standards validated LoRaWAN for smart metering, building on earlier OMS Group and DLMS-UA adoptions and further strengthening LoRaWAN’s ability to meet this market’s specialized requirements.
• Two Technical Recommendations were released improving and augmenting LoRaWAN functionality, including using Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) to increase network capacity and Multicast D2D communication for direct over-the-air communication between devices.
• Several FAQ documents were issued to strengthen users’ understanding of recent enhancements to the LoRaWAN specification, including payload codec API, relay, IPv6 adaptation layer and security.
• Pre-testing of firmware updates over the air (FUOTA) and relay specifications using the LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT) were enabled, along with new reporting features.
• The Interoperability Work Group developed tools and procedures to test and certify interoperability between LoRaWAN network elements and built an interoperability testbed architecture.
• Beecham Research conducted an extensive study focusing on networking technologies for smart cities, buildings and utilities, releasing two reports offering valuable insights into the evolving landscape of IoT in these markets:
  • Briefing for IoT Solution Specialists: Using LoRaWAN in Smart Buildings, Cities and Utilities to educate system integrators and solution providers, available exclusively to LoRa Alliance members; and
  • User Guide to Research of Key IoT Sectors: Smart Buildings, Cities, Utilities, which noted LoRaWAN’s global LPWAN leadership, issued publicly.

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A groundbreaking collaboration between LPWAN industry leaders and LoRa Alliance® members Semtech, Actility, Arad, and Deviceroy has the world’s first commercial implementation and successful end-to-end interoperability test for the innovative relay feature utilizing LoRaWAN connectivity.

This cutting-edge advancement enables LoRaWAN packets from remote, isolated or hard to reach devices to be relayed by battery-operated relay nodes. This coverage extension is provided through a low-cost solution further lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the LoRaWAN deployment. The relay feature promises to be a game changer for LoRaWAN-based use cases such as water, gas, and electricity metering, where stringent service level agreements demand cost efficient and unparalleled coverage for all devices within a geographical footprint.

Semtech, a pioneering force in LoRa technology, has seamlessly integrated the relay feature for both end-devices and relay nodes into their latest LoRa Basics Modem v4 stack. This integration fortifies the potential of LoRaWAN to provide low cost, exceptional coverage and connectivity across various applications.

Actility, a trailblazer in IoT connectivity solutions, has integrated the relay feature utilizing LoRaWAN into its renowned ThingPark Wireless and ThingPark Enterprise network platforms in Release 7.3. This inclusion is also available in the free-to-use Community edition of ThingPark, which can be immediately used by developers to test their relay implementations utilizing LoRaWAN. To learn more, visit actility.com/relay.

Deviceroy, a key player in the IoT device industry, plays a pivotal role with Aria Relay, serving as a powerful range extender for LoRaWAN. Aria Relay ensures bidirectional connectivity, enabling data between remote or isolated devices and their destinations to flow reliably, significantly expanding network coverage. To learn more about the Aria Relay, visit deviceroy.com/relay.

The three vendors – Semtech, Actility, and Deviceroy – have successfully completed interoperability testing and achieved reliable end-to-end bidirectional communication with devices that can connect only through a LoRaWAN-based relay. This achievement underscores the reliability and seamlessness of the relay feature in real-world scenarios.

Arad, a visionary in water metering solutions, is poised to deploy the relay feature utilizing LoRaWAN within its water meter networks. This implementation has the potential to revolutionize utility management, offering unparalleled connectivity in even the most challenging environments.

The introduction of the relay feature utilizing LoRaWAN signals a new era in IoT connectivity, reshaping the possibilities for a more connected future across industries by enabling customers to add battery-operated, easy-to-deploy relay nodes that act as network extenders. These relay nodes can be placed in remote locations or in areas where signal strength is weak due to extreme distances or circumstances, effectively extending the range of existing gateway(s) and networks using LoRaWAN connectivity.

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LoRa Alliance® Headed to Japan for LoRaWAN Live! Tokyo in October 2023 to Collaborate, Educate and Support the LoRaWAN Market in this Rapidly Growing Region

The LoRa Alliance®, today highlighted the strong growth of LoRaWAN across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region with the addition of millions of sensors deployed in the first six months of 2023, led by large projects in China, Japan, Korea, and India.

The continued evolution of LoRaWAN networks is also increasing accessibility, further accelerating growth. To support the high level of regional activity, the LoRa Alliance will bring its next LoRaWAN Live event to Tokyo, Japan on October 11-12, 2023.

“The Asia Pacific region has consistently been at the leading edge of LoRaWAN deployments, and the trend has been accelerating through the first half of 2023,” said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance.

“As digital transformation accelerates and demand increases for more effective, efficient and environmentally sustainable solutions to protect the planet and people’s wellbeing, LoRa Alliance members have engaged in numerous deployments in the region to support a wide variety of applications. Some of the largest scale deployments support water metering and management, gas metering and leak detection, environmental monitoring and energy management, and street lighting/safety. I’m excited for the Alliance to return to Japan in October to support the region’s dynamic and accelerating LoRaWAN activity.”

Recent LoRaWAN projects and large-scale deployments announced in the APAC region include:

• Tata Communications has scaled two significant deployments; the first enables a connected worker solution covering more than 250,000 end nodes to monitor health, safety and productivity across large manufacturing organizations in segments like metals and mining, oil and gas, automotive, pharma, etc.; and the second harnesses LoRaWAN for smart lighting automation solutions for more than 300,000 end nodes across India and the Middle East to manage streetlight infrastructure across large geographies.
• Packetworx and Actility are deploying a nationwide public LoRaWAN network in the Philippines with over 6,000 gateways.
• Semtech is a partner in a large water metering deployment of 250,000 sensors in Korea. Leotek Co. Ltd. supplies advanced water metering infrastructure services to major local governments in Korea using SJI LoRaWAN modules.
• Milesight has completed multiple deployments across China, with approximately 50,000 LoRaWAN devices deployed. Projects included: lighting control system upgrade to improve management efficiency of the site campus and reduce power consumption; digital transformation including lighting control, device control, energy and environment management, and space management, with the help of a smart building using LoRaWAN® to enhance working efficiency and productivity; and sustainable and productive building management with LoRaWAN smart bin sensors and water leak detectors, improving operational efficiency, ensuring customer satisfaction, and integrating legacy systems.
• In a LoRaWAN milestone for Singapore, iWOW Technology Ltd.’s installed a network of over 400 TEKTELIC LoRaWAN gateways to service over 25,000 sensors for smart metering and emergency response services.
• IoT Ventures is deploying more than 8,000 sensors to support its LoRaWAN end-to-end solutions, including the Water2Milk Water Infrastructure and Pasture Growth irrigation solution, HorseSafe horse wellness solution and GrainSure silo monitoring solution.
• Lacuna Space and IoT Ventures roll out a water monitoring system to track the availability of clean drinking water captured and stored in tanks within remote communities in the South Pacific. The early warning system avoids the need for infrastructure by messaging direct from sensor to satellite, allowing authorities to take action before the situation becomes critical.
• One of the largest subway companies in Japan introduced Yokogawa Electric Corporation’s Sushi Sensors to monitor hundreds of ventilators and air conditioning equipment units located in its stations and tunnels. The company plans to install Sushi Sensor on all its subway lines’ ventilators and air conditioning equipment.
• SenRa collaborated with a large Building Management System (BMS) company in India to optimize and expand its LoRaWAN deployment covering a 65-acre site and leveraging more than 250 sensors in the initial phases of the project to support water metering and management, leak detection and remote monitoring. Phases planned for later this year are slated to expand into street lighting, energy metering and parking solutions adding thousands of sensors.
• Kiwi Technology has launched two significant IoT FOT deployments; the first supports LNG gas metering and leverages a third-party Network Control Unit that uses LoRaWAN with Class B to connect and monitor gas meters in real-time and potentially reduce gas leaks. The current Taiwan LPG deployment follows a similar project in Japan that went online in late 2022 and the second harnesses LoRaWAN for smart temperature management solutions across food retail and cold chain, as well as medical logistics to manage food and pharma safety to meet HACCP/GMP regulations.
• Semtech supported Aeon Delight in equipping 90 administrative facilities in Japan with solar panel-driven LoRaWAN sensors commercialized by Ricoh to measure temperature, humidity, CO2 levels and light remotely, reducing both labor and running costs.

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The new owner of Sigfox 0G technology is championing the Convergence of Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies to deliver Massive Internet of Things (IoT).

UnaBiz, Massive IoT service provider and integrator, today announced that they have become a Contributor member of the LoRa Alliance®, an open, non-profit association of IoT companies with over 400 members.

The move follows a series of partnership announcements with LoRaWAN® players including The Things Industries, Senet, Loriot and Actility.

Since UnaBiz acquired Sigfox 0G technology in 2022, the company has embarked on a journey of growth and Technology Convergence. In April 2023, UnaBiz released the Sigfox 0G technology device library code to the IoT development community to build bridges with all communication technologies including, LTE-M Cellular, LoRaWAN®, and Satellite players. Most recently, the company signed a global agreement with Soracom to include global cellular connectivity service in its offerings.

“The first step towards Technology Convergence is understanding our differences. As a firm believer in an open ecosystem, UnaBiz has worked with various IoT communication technologies in the last seven years, and we understand well that each customer should have the freedom to leverage the uniqueness of each LPWAN in order to capture maximum value from their Massive IoT projects,” said Henri Bong, Co-Founder and CEO of UnaBiz.

Remi Lorrain, who joined UnaBiz as its VP of Convergence in June shared:

“We look forward to contributing to the work of the LoRa Alliance committees to drive Massive IoT with the adoption of LoRaWAN in our IoT connectivity portfolio, complementing Sigfox 0G, cellular and satellite.”

As a Contributor, UnaBiz will work with the LoRaWAN ecosystem to deliver LoRaWAN solutions to its customers through its global channels to market. The group is also keen to identify the right partners for go-to-market in its key verticals, especially Building & Facilities management where it has already deployed LoRaWAN-enabled solutions across the world.

“I am pleased to welcome UnaBiz to the LoRa Alliance. Solutions providers are a key driver of LoRaWAN adoption and scaled deployments. UnaBiz’s viewpoints on multi-protocol business models align with the LoRa Alliance’s strategy that complementary protocols are required to address Massive IoT use case solutions.” Donna Moore CEO and Chairwoman of LoRa Alliance® commented.

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The LoRa Alliance®, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® standard for the Internet of Things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), today showcased how LoRaWAN has become the market leader driving industrial evolution to Industry 5.0 globally.

Industry 5.0 builds on Industry 4.0 by incorporating the human element, guided largely by environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives that seek to strengthen sustainability, efficiency and quality of life for the world’s citizens. The LoRa Alliance ecosystem delivers end-to-end solutions across the value chain, which enable holistic digital transformation––encompassing technology, data, new workflows, and operational realignments––needed to achieve industry 5.0’s objectives.

“Over the past few years, the LoRa Alliance has demonstrated how LoRaWAN supports people, planet and profit. These concepts are fundamental to the ideas of Industry 5.0, which aims beyond efficiency and productivity as the sole goals and reinforces the role and the contribution of industry to society with more human-machine collaboration and human-centric solutions,” said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance.

“Globally, businesses are recognizing that achieving business goals takes more than operational improvements, people and technology must work together to bring about change. LoRaWAN has taken a leadership position in this arena with millions of deployments that ultimately focus on increasing sustainability and improving quality of life.”

“The evolution to Industry 5.0 is not possible without the use of open standards, backed by a strong ecosystem that offers choice of vendors and endless innovation. This is also why so many organizations worldwide are adopting the LoRaWAN standard to drive their holistic digitization initiatives.”

Some of the trends driving Industry 5.0 include:

• The growth of governmental regulations for monitoring to ensure safety, such as New York City’s requirements to monitor for gas leaks. Using LoRaWAN for real-time monitoring has accelerated shut-off times by 6X, according to LoRa Alliance members Senet and ProSentry, saving lives and property.
• A rapid increase in P&C insurance premiums, reported to be more than 300% since 2017. Water damage claims are the single largest category of losses contributing to rate increases, accounting for $300B in global water claims annually. This is leading insurers to transition to a prevention mindset, encouraging building owners and operators to adopt leak detection technology. LoRa Alliance member Kairos reports that its LoRaWAN flexible leak detection sensors have eliminated water claims for more than 8,000 apartment units since installation and achieved a 6-month ROI on average for asset owners following system installation.
• The need for residents’ privacy is also driving LoRaWAN adoption in residential buildings, as it allows for facility monitoring and optimization without capturing or transmitting any personally identifiable information.

“Beecham Research is constantly conducting surveys and one-on-one interviews with IoT users and suppliers,” said Robin Duke-Woolley, CEO and Chief Analyst, Beecham Research. “These are consistently showing LoRaWAN as the rapidly rising star for LPWAN sensor deployments in the smart cities, buildings and utility sectors and also gaining ground rapidly in manufacturing, agriculture, and other high-priority sectors. The value that LoRaWAN brings as an open standard makes it inherently agile and encourages innovation across industries.”

“LoRaWAN’s strengths—open standard, strong security, low power, battery-operated, long-distance transmission, low capital and operating expense—make it the leading LPWAN for IoT and the natural choice for Industry 5.0,” added Moore, “Massive LoRaWAN deployments pave the way to meeting ESG goals and adoption of Industry 5.0.”

Recent industry developments and large-scale deployments include:

• Sigfox owner Unabiz to utilize global LoRaWAN networks via partnerships with LoRa Alliance members Actility, LORIOT, The Things Industries and Senet
• Nova Labs collaborations with multiple members to integrate Helium Network as a roaming solution and expand global LoRaWAN connectivity for all network operators, including announcements with Actility and Senet

LoRaWAN industry leaders, including:

• Everynet LoRaWAN connectivity is now available through AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, giving Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers the ability to connect devices seamlessly to the cloud, at scale and without the cost of deploying and managing their own network infrastructure
• Microsoft’s Azure IoT Edge LoRaWAN Starter Kit for connectivity to Azure IoT Hub
• Netmore announced plans to implement large-scale LoRaWAN networks in France, Spain, Poland and the Netherlands, and has joined the LoRa Alliance board of directors
• MultiTech has partnered with a major automotive company to implement LoRaWAN on the manufacturing floor for predictive maintenance on a fleet of Autonomous Guided Vehicles
• Minol ZENNER Connect is experiencing strong growth in countries implementing the EU Energy Efficiency Directive, which requires, among other things, that utilities and real estate companies transmit consumption data to consumers and tenants throughout the year so they can monitor and adjust their consumption patterns. Currently, they operate more than 70,000 gateways with over 4,800,000 sensors in 5,800 cities in 12 countries and getting more day by day.
• Senet and Telli Health have launched the first remote patient monitoring (RPM) hardware powered by LoRaWAN, allowing providers to reach more patients in remote and underserved areas – such as indigenous communities worldwide – boosting healthcare equity and inclusivity

Recent LoRaWAN deployments that specifically support sustainability:

• 140,000 Abeeway trackers on factory workers in an industrial city in the region Jharkhand, India (partnership with one of the largest conglomerates in India)
• The Things Industries and Connexin have collaborated to create a hybrid network model in Severn Trent, UK, to connect 150,000 LoRaWAN Itron water meters for real-time water usage data and just-in-time water leak detection
• Milesight is providing Quebec’s schools with air quality monitoring, with nearly 50,000 sensors transmitting to 2600 gateways, transmitting more than 7 million messages daily over LoRaWAN
• 360,000 smart water meters deployed by Netmore in Yorkshire, UK
• 23,000 PipeBurst Pro WT500 wireless water sensors deployed in the US by Greenfield Direct

Moore continued: “The value that the world’s largest brands bring to our organization is second to none. I’m proud to include Minol ZENNER Connect and Netmore Group on that list and welcome Zenner USA’s president, Rich Sanders, and Netmore’s CEO, Ove Anebygd to the LoRa Alliance Board of Directors. I look forward to their strategic leadership on the Board of Directors and their companies’ support in driving the alliance and LoRaWAN technology forward.”

“It is an immense opportunity and honor for Zenner to be seated on the board of directors of the LoRa Alliance,” said Rich Sanders, president of Zenner USA. “The open LoRaWAN standard will force industries away from proprietary standards, which make products more expensive and cumbersome to work with for customers who want to automate. Providing an open standard also pushes competition within any industry to be more competitive and customer focused. Across all our businesses, LoRaWAN has been a major part of our ability to provide advanced, low-cost, leading-edge solutions to our customers. As a company, we are committed to the success of the LoRa Alliance and as a board member we are engaged in helping achieve that success.”

“We are honoured and grateful for the opportunity to join the Board of Directors for the LoRa Alliance, an organization that has been instrumental in advancing the adoption of LoRaWAN technology worldwide,” said Anebygd, CEO of Netmore Group. “As a pan-European LoRaWAN operator with a strong commercial momentum, we are convinced that our position and our ambitions harmonize with the vision of the LoRa Alliance. A lot of important work has been done, while at the same time we believe that we can contribute to the technology being established around Europe to an even greater extent. We are committed to leveraging our expertise, experience, and resources to help drive the proliferation of IoT solutions that benefit the LoRaWAN ecosystem and communities across Europe.”

“We have reached a moment in time where businesses have to change, there is no longer a choice of digitizing or not,” concluded Moore. “The evolution to Industry 5.0 is being driven by the tremendous headwinds the world is facing, including the global pandemic, supply chain issues, worker shortages, decaying infrastructure, financial crisis and more. This new industrial evolution that accounts for people, planet and profit is only possible with holistic digital transformation that looks at the bigger picture and finds ways to optimize business operations and the environment to achieve a sustainable future where the world’s citizens can thrive.”

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Accreditation will validate developers’ and engineers’ advanced knowledge of the LoRaWAN Standard

The LoRa Alliance®, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN standard for the internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), introduces the LoRaWAN Accredited Professional program.

The new accreditation supports the growing need for skilled LoRaWAN professionals in the market. The online exam will become available on May 1, 2023 and sign-up is open now, with the first 100 registrants receiving a $100 discount.

“LoRaWAN is a mature technology with massive deployments and the largest IoT ecosystem,” said Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance.

“Over the past few years, the IoT industry has asked for a technical accreditation program to meet the growing need for skilled LoRaWAN professionals. Developers and engineers who obtain accredited professional status will bring strong knowledge of LoRaWAN to support IoT projects around the world.”

The new LoRaWAN Accredited Professional program is administered by the LoRa Alliance, which develops and maintains the LoRaWAN standard. Individuals who pass the LoRaWAN Professional Accreditation exam have demonstrated advanced knowledge of the LoRaWAN standard and its implementation. This program is recommended for individuals with at least two years of professional experience developing and implementing LoRaWAN and/or have completed LoRa Alliance endorsed trainings.

The program offers significant benefits to technical IoT professionals, consultants, engineers, and developers who successfully achieve LoRaWAN Accredited Professional status:

• Proof of qualification to develop and deploy LoRaWAN solutions
• Enhances customer confidence in your abilities
• Increases job security and promotion opportunities
• Reduces on-the-job training time
• Increases opportunities when applying for a new job
• More authority and a larger voice in professional groups, raising your profile in the industry

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The LoRa Alliance®, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® standard for the internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), has recently issued its 2022 End-of-Year Report.

The report highlights LoRa Alliance achievements as well as LoRaWAN adoption, technology and certification advancements over the past year.

Advancements across several key market factors drove LoRaWAN’s tremendous growth in 2022:

• LoRaWAN is now a mature technology. 
• It is approved by ITU as an open international standard.

 

• The LoRa Alliance has the largest and most diverse IoT ecosystem, with stakeholders from the entire value chain participating.

 

• LoRaWAN has the most networks around the world and the only LPWAN with network options – public, private, satellite, community and hybrid.
• LoRa Alliance members have the most deployed solutions and the largest at-scale deployments as well as the most deployed multi-technology solutions – with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RFID, 5G, DLMS, OMS, BACnet and more.

 

• The LoRa Alliance has the most certified LPWAN devices with the greatest choice of device vendors and diversity of devices on the market.

 

• Through alliance members’ partnership and collaboration, we have the largest number of end-to-end solutions, making deployments easier for customers.

 

“We saw a major shift in 2022, with LoRaWAN being recognized as an essential technology,” said Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance.

“We’ve moved from needing to educate about ‘what’ LoRaWAN is to focusing on ‘how’ to deploy LoRaWAN.”

“As end users move from exploratory stages and proofs-of-concept into massive adoption of LoRaWAN, integrators and solutions providers across a variety of industries are intensifying their sales efforts, which is growing LoRaWAN deployments exponentially. Our members are innovative, determined and passionate about changing the world for the better, and I can’t wait to see what they do next.”

The LoRa Alliance experienced a tremendous increase in member-driven initiatives, with cross-company collaboration driving more projects than ever before. There was also significant growth in webinars and educational programs in the past year, which also reflects the shifting market awareness and interest in LoRaWAN. Additionally, 2022 was another strong year for advancing the LoRaWAN standard from a technological perspective. The LoRa Alliance focuses on continually making LoRaWAN easier to develop and deploy and strengthening its certification program. Key achievements over the past year include:

• Support for IPv6 over LoRaWAN  accelerates onboarding Internet Protocol (IP)-based applications,
• The new relay feature extends LoRaWAN coverage beyond its current physical limits,
• The payload codec application programming interface (API) eases the integration of application platforms with LoRaWAN networks,
• Significant expansion of self-testing and ease of use of the LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool accelerates certification, and
• The LoRaWAN certification program has added support for critical technologies, including certifying devices for IPv6 over LoRaWAN.

 

“Together with our incredible ecosystem, we will continue to improve the world in ways no one ever imagined possible. I invite everyone interested in developing LoRaWAN solutions to join us at LoRaWAN Live this coming March in Orlando to explore our ecosystem and network with industry leaders,” said Moore.

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LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool Now Provides SCHC over LoRaWAN testing for end device certification.

The LoRa Alliance®, today announced that LoRaWAN certification is now available for end-devices using static context header compression (SCHC).

Certification is based on the LoRa Alliance technical specifications for IPv6 published last May, which enable the deployment of IPv6 over LoRaWAN solutions.

As previously announced, the first applications to leverage SCHC for IPv6 over LoRaWAN are smart metering and IoT applications in the smart grid, just two of many applications requiring the use of IPv6-based standards. Solutions using LoRaWAN for metering include proactive consumption monitoring, leak detection warnings and automatic shutoffs, and solutions for balancing electricity supply and demand. Easy and cost-effective to deploy, LoRaWAN is ideal for identifying and managing unmeasured losses, which currently reach into the billions of dollars each year, in addition to helping to conserve energy. Similar benefits can be realized for water and gas metering, with LoRaWAN CertifiedCM devices communicating over open standards enabling scale to address these growing markets.

“As deployments continue to grow to the tens or hundreds of millions of devices, the importance of using open standards has never been greater,” said Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “Certifying IPv6 over LoRaWAN for end-devices gives end users the level of certainty needed to deploy and benefit from IP-based solutions.”

“With vendors now able to certify LoRaWAN end-devices using SCHC, customers can confidently commit to massive utilities deployments. This will further drive digital industrialization across a wide variety of new markets and applications, which will in turn enable massive IoT.”

The certification of IPv6 over LoRaWAN using SCHC confirms that the end-device meets the functional requirements of the LoRaWAN IPv6 Adaptation Layer Specification TS010-1.0.0. End-devices must already be LoRaWAN CertifiedCM as a prerequisite of SCHC over LoRaWAN certification. The full testing suite for SCHC over LoRaWAN has been added to the LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT), which is available for download now.

LoRaWAN IPv6 Adaptation Layer

The IPv6 adaptation layer facilitates and accelerates development of secure and interoperable applications over LoRaWAN and furthers the Alliance’s commitment to ease of use.. IP-based solutions, commonly found in enterprise and industrial solutions, can now be transmitted over LoRaWAN and easily integrated with cloud infrastructures. This allows developers to quickly enable internet-based applications, while significantly reducing time-to-market and total cost of ownership.

Learn how LoRaWAN Supports Utilities Markets at Enlit

The LoRa Alliance will be onsite at Enlit from November 29 to December 1, 2022, in Hall 12.1 Stand B192. LoRa Alliance members participating in the booth will showcase how LoRaWAN supports the utilities market and standards-based technologies, including:

• Acklio: Ensure successful Smart Metering Deployments with Acklio’s software solutions using SCHC
• Actility: Connectivity solutions for utilities, cities, and energy management enabled by LoRaWAN
• comtac AG: Monitoring of transformer stations in electricity medium voltage distribution networks via LoRaWAN
• Connexin: End-to-end AMI smart water metering with LoRaWAN
• Digita Oy: Water Meter and Data Management enabled by LoRaWAN & Power Line Infrastructure Condition Monitoring Solution enabled by LoRaWAN
• Everynet: The power of LoRaWAN for Massive IoT in the utility industry
• OrbiWise: LoRaWAN public networks for deployment of Smart Water and Gas Metering
• Vertical M2M: SmartWater everywhere, from subscriber to network: saving energy and water

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Release of a standards-based Payload Codec API simplifies ease of deployment to drive scale.

The LoRa Alliance®, today announced that it has expanded the LoRaWAN standard with the addition of TS013-1.0.0, an application programming interface (API) for application payload decoder-encoders (codecs).

Adopting the new specification will allow device manufacturers and application server providers to reduce deployment complexity significantly. This will make it far easier and faster to deploy LoRaWAN devices at a massive scale. The LoRa Alliance will host a webinar on October 27 at 7 am US PDT to share how to build a standard codec, focusing on its structure and recommendations for optimization. Click here for more information or to register.

“LoRa Alliance members, working with their customers identified a new opportunity to enhance ease-of-use,” said Donna Moore, CEO, and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance.

“By doing the work to develop a standardized application payload codec API, we are greatly simplifying the onboarding process, making it easier to integrate and deploy devices, and thereby facilitating massive LoRaWAN deployments. This new specification eliminates yet another barrier to massive IoT with a new standards-based approach.”

LoRaWAN Payload Codec API Specification

When using LoRaWAN to transport application payloads, messages are very compactly encoded to minimize bandwidth usage. As messages reach the application server, they must be decoded to be read and processed. Previously, each device manufacturer or application developer had to write a specific codec for each device and application platform pair, which created friction for device onboarding. With the new payload codec API specification, a codec can be developed once and used on any application platform, achieving considerable savings in terms of reduced complexity and accelerated time to market.

The LoRaWAN Payload Codec API standardizes an API for the JavaScript codecs for LoRaWAN devices to enable adoption by both device makers and application server vendors. A standard codec provides the capability to decode uplinks/downlinks and to encode downlinks, allowing new LoRaWAN devices to be easily integrated into any compatible platform.

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Battery-operated relays provide easy to deploy, low power, and standards-based approach to achieve robust network coverage in challenging environments.

The LoRa Alliance®, today announced that it has expanded the LoRaWAN link-layer standard with the addition of a relay specification.

Relay allows for battery-operated, easy-to-deploy network coverage extensions at a fraction of the cost of adding additional gateways. This allows LoRaWAN to achieve excellent coverage in use cases requiring deep indoor or underground coverage, or relay data on satellite connected LoRaWAN devices within proximity.

“LoRa Alliance members identified that end users in specific markets needed a solution to achieve full network coverage due to environmental challenges surrounding their deployments,” said Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance.

“With relay, we’re providing a standardized solution that allows for full end-to-end communications in extremely challenging underground, metal and concrete environments where sensor signals could use a boost or redirect to reach either the gateway or end-device.”

“The new relay feature is a direct response to market needs and provides an essential building block to enable massive IoT.”

One of the first markets to adopt relay is metering in the utilities sector. Utilities represents a massive opportunity for IoT, with VDC Research estimating that worldwide LPWAN communication services revenue will reach $2.47 billion by 2025. Adding relay to the LoRaWAN standard to achieve coverage for even the most difficult cases (e.g., meters inside metal closets) significantly strengthens LoRaWAN’s market position in metering and utilities, and more broadly across key verticals including smart cities and buildings, and industrial IoT. Using relay is ideal for any application monitoring static assets in challenging environments.

LoRaWAN Relay Feature

The LoRaWAN standard is proven for long range communications, however, there can be physical limits to where LPWAN communications can reach, such as around turns, underground, where a signal needs to be reflected/relayed into a specific location, etc. LoRaWAN relays allow signals to go where they physically couldn’t go before. The LoRaWAN TS011-1.0.0 LoRaWAN Relay Specification document describes the relaying mechanism used to transport LoRaWAN frames bi-directionally between an end-device and gateway/network server via a battery-operated node. By enabling relay, the device can transfer LoRaWAN frames between an end-device and network when there is insufficient coverage from the gateway.

This specification enables Network coverage extension through battery operated relay and maintains compatibility with the LoRaWAN Link-Layer standard in terms of protocol and security. The new relay nodes are battery-powered and can be installed anywhere and do not require electricity or internet connectivity. This makes them a very easy to deploy, low cost and low power way to extend network coverage, without needing to add additional gateways. Relay end points allow LoRaWAN to provide coverage of all devices with only a nominal cost of installation.

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The LoRa Alliance’s LoRaWAN World Expo took place on 6th and 7th July in Paris. This is the event that was initially scheduled for June 2020 but suffered from delays due to Covid. Apparently 1,200 registered for the conference and actual attendance was a little over 1,000.

So, what was interesting at the LoRaWAN World Expo 2022?

Firstly, there was a strong focus on sustainability and ‘LoRaWAN saving the planet’. But, as is often the case in the sustainability domain, it’s clear that most of the thinking is early stage. Discussion centred on interesting and idiosyncratic example case studies, rather than a more formal analysis of what the potential for LoRaWAN to enable sustainability is, what the corresponding business benefits are, and how any plan for delivering benefits might be executed on.

Transforma Insights’ own analysis suggests that LoRaWAN will have a disproportionate impact on sustainability overall. We predict that it will account for approaching 5% of all IoT connections in 2030 and will over-index in terms of impact to electricity consumption and will strongly over-index in terms of impact to water consumption (mostly due to agricultural solutions on LoRaWAN private networks). The profile of these results is mostly a result of LoRaWAN’s suitability for deployment as a private network and (currently) relatively limited availability as a public network. However, it will under-index in terms of impact to (hydrocarbon) fuel consumption, due to the dominance of cellular technology in connected vehicles.

The role for LoRaWAN as a public network is developing quickly though. One of the most significant developments in the LoRaWAN space in the last year is the progress that is being made by Everynet in deploying nationwide networks, with multiple European networks due for deployment in the second half of 2022. The company claims to have rolled-out 600 access points in the USA since deployment started in June 2021. Not only is LoRaWAN emerging as the winner in the licence-exempt Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) space, but the ecosystem is taking the battle to the cellular (3GPP) mobile network operators. Indeed, Everynet’s partner in Indonesia is a cellular operator that already had a NB-IoT (3GPP LPWA) network deployed at the point that they decided to deploy LoRaWAN countrywide.

It’s also worth calling out Acklio, which won the LoRa Alliance Innovation Award 2022 for its solution that allows IPv6 communications to be supported over a LoRaWAN link according to LoRa Alliance standards. This opens up electricity smart metering (where IPv6 communications are often a requirement of relevant standards) as an addressable market for LoRaWAN, and also many in home devices. While on the topic of in-building devices, it was interesting to see MultiTech launch a range of in-building sensors for the European market, part of their Reveal line of sensors drawing on capabilities derived from their recent acquisition of Radio Bridge. Sensors include wireless push button sensors (for example for personal security), movement sensors, leak detection sensors, temperature sensors and movement sensors. The in-building LoRaWAN space is getting crowded though. Also showcasing their smart building wares at the Expo were Browab, Climate, Controlix, Decentlab, Elsys, Mydevices, Nexelec, and Thermokon.

In other news, Semtech were demonstrating their LoRa Edge concept that allows for GPS location over a long-life battery powered LoRa device – the secret sauce being that only GPS time information is collected at the device for transmission to the cloud: the heavy-lifting to calculate location information based on the timing information is undertaken in the cloud. This concept will open up new markets for battery-powered tracking applications including, for instance, tracking cattle or shipping cages.

Taking these announcements together, we’ve seen LoRaWAN mature into a wide area wireless concept, adapt to support some useful capabilities (IPv6 over LoRaWAN, and more efficient geo-positioning) and also extend reach into a space characterised by a myriad of small battery powered in-building sensors.

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Building on its recent announcement of significant network expansion, the LoRa Alliance®, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® standard for internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), today announced strong growth for LoRaWAN across a number of key market indicators.

Driven by LoRa Alliance members and the global LoRaWAN ecosystem, LoRaWAN is scaling massively around the world, collecting more data from more devices, serving more needs, with the most networks around the world, including historically underserved areas.

“Because members of the LoRa Alliance come from every part of the value chain—from silicon chipmaker to solution implementor—explosive adoption of LoRaWAN means not only the number of sensors deployed, but also the rapid scaling of gateway deployments, messages handled, and networks”, said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “Every stakeholder of the LoRaWAN ecosystem is driving market activity, with recent strong growth in the number of solutions providers and system integrators delivering LoRaWAN solutions.”

“LoRaWAN’s multi-RAN and multi-standard deployments, and the recent addition of IPv6 over LoRaWAN, are expanding addressable markets,” continued Moore. “LoRaWAN networks are widely available, blanketing entire countries and large metropolitan areas. Growth is also coming from member collaborations that provide end-to-end solutions, as well as LoRaWAN’s global availability and support for worldwide roaming. It is exciting to lead this rapid acceleration that is driving massive LoRaWAN scaling.”

LoRaWAN’s market dominance is best illustrated by LoRa Alliance members’ solutions that scale across a wide variety of vertical markets, use cases, reach and availability of LoRaWAN. Below are just a few examples of the thousands of LoRaWAN solutions deploying around the world:

• Everynet continues to expand its massive IoT buildout across the United States with its LoRaWAN network delivering coast-to-coast coverage, reaching more than 550 cities, which includes more than 130 logistics points. Its robust network offers dense coverage in urban areas, while long-range connectivity delivers coverage across key logistics points.
• The Helium Network and Senet have completed an integration between their networks, making 850,000 Helium-compatible hotspots across 170 countries available to Senet customers and creating the largest globally managed LoRaWAN network.
• National Narrowband Network Co. (NNNCo) has signed a contract with technology provider Wellness TechGroup to deploy a citywide LoRaWAN network in Montevideo, Uruguay to support 1.3 million people with 70,000 smart streetlights and create an infrastructure-based network for other smart city initiatives (to add endless use cases to the network), while reducing carbon emissions by up to 80%.
• The Things Industries (TTI) and Connexin are deploying 150,000 smart meters across Coventry and Warwickshire in the U.K. The project aims to provide accurate real-time water usage data to enable more precise billing and reduce the risks of water leakage on physical sites.
• Talkpool sensors use LoRaWAN connectivity through Netmore to provide building damage prevention solutions using wireless LoRaWAN sensor devices that are easy to install and scale quickly using nationwide LoRaWAN network coverage. The companies have deployed 1,000 LoRaWAN gateways that transmit 960,000 messages per day, providing readings for temperature and humidity, water leakage and smart floor drains. Providing that data enables new revenue streams and improved customer service.

Additional examples are highlighted below:

• Birdz and Actility are working jointly on a 3M LoRaWAN water meter deployment through their OBS ties, which use Actility to operate their French nationwide LoRaWAN network, and had agreed with Birdz-Veolia to use it for this project
• Red Sea Giga Project connects its 36,000-person construction workforce and 3,000 vehicles in real time with Actility and Abeeway
• Cellnex LoRaWAN Networks deployed with Omnium for water management in Spain will connect >300,000 sensors
• GreenField Direct’s LoRaWAN leak protection solution is transmitting 125,000 messages per day using 16,000 devices over 300 gateways to minimize damages and reduce insurance premiums
• Everynet delivers national LoRaWAN networks in 10 countries around the world, including covering more than 82% of GDP in Indonesia and 67% of GDP in Brazil, helping to enable the digital transformation of cities, utilities, and industry.
• Microshare’s EverSmart Clean deployment of 9,000 devices has transmitted more than 10 million messages covering building occupancy, movement and customer feedback
• Milesight is providing Quebec’s schools with air quality monitoring, with nearly 50,000 sensors transmitting to 2600 gateways, sending more than 7 million messages over LoRaWAN to date
• Renesas has deployed a LoRaWAN smart building solution with 10,000+ sensors and 90 gateways that monitor conditions, occupancy, metering and load control, heat exchanger maintenance and more, saving a major furniture retailer 30% on its energy costs
• Senet is unlocking innovation in Tampa Florida with expansive public LoRaWAN network covering over 1,600 square miles with more than 50 towers
• Talkpool is using LoRaWAN connectivity through TEKTELIC to provide superior air quality monitoring and HVAC optimization using 10,000 devices and 100 gateways that have handled nearly 1M messages
• CRA and TEKTELIC build a LoRaWAN network providing coverage across the Czech Republic using more than 500 gateways to achieve >80% coverage of the country
• Urbana Smart Solutions’ IoT platform manages the public lighting systems for municipalities in Sicily over a LoRaWAN network using 20 gateways to carry nearly one-half million messages daily
• EchoStar’s LoRaWAN IoT program already spans more than 10,000 devices, with the service expected to scale to millions of devices in Europe alone
• Actility deploys smart gas metering in the Eskisehir Organized Industry Zone, the second largest industrial cluster in Turkey with a LoRaWAN network covering a 32 km. sq. area
• NNNCo rolled out a LoRaWAN network across the state of Tasmania that will provide data to Virtual TAS, an Australia-first 4D digital twin project between Enzen and 42-24
• Kerlink and VIoT install Vietnam’s first national LoRaWAN network installing approximately 1,750 Kerlink gateways over 3 years to achieve nationwide coverage

Experience LoRaWAN’s Growth at the LoRaWAN World Expo

To learn more about LoRaWAN and the work of the LoRa Alliance, please join us at the LoRaWAN World Expo taking place in Paris July 6-7. The largest official LoRaWAN event in 2022, the Expo is the best opportunity to learn how companies using LoRaWAN are achieving strong ROI on their deployments, products and services. to not miss out on your chance to experience the LoRaWAN World Expo.

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Leading global technology experts to address LoRaWAN best practices, features and benefits, ease of deployment, and value of certification through dynamic sessions, and interactive live demonstrations.

The LoRa Alliance®, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® standard for the internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), today announced the complete program for the LoRaWAN World Expo, taking place at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, July 6-7, 2022.

Having previously announced program highlights and the environmental, social and governance (ESG) track, the alliance has rounded out the event agenda with a strong technology track for developers, engineers and system integrators.

Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance, said:

“The LoRaWAN World Expo will be the most engaging IoT event of the year, where attendees will not only network with industry thought leaders, but also be fully immersed in hands-on technical demonstrations and exhibits.”

“Come and learn every aspect of the LoRaWAN standard and why it’s the market leading IoT LPWAN solution. Benefit from the rich knowledge base of the LoRa Alliance ecosystem and have your technical questions answered.”

Experience LoRaWAN in Action Inside the Palais des Congrès!

During the event, an Actility ThingPark Enterprise LoRaWAN private network will report live temperature, humidity, light, carbon dioxide and occupancy statuses using data from Elsys, Parametric and Sensative sensors installed around the facility. The sensor values will be transmitted using a Motorola Solutions LoRaWAN gateway and visualized using IoThink’s KHEIRON Studio. Fifty attendees will be equipped with Abeeway smart badges whose locations will be updated on the event floor plan in real time.

Come learn the technical reasons for LoRaWAN’s market success.

“In the seven years since the LoRa Alliance was formed, we have continuously evolved the LoRaWAN standard, with a focus on security, ease of deployment and certification tools,” Moore added. “To address the expansive IoT market, our members also actively collaborate with other standards to jointly develop solutions for key use cases. This ensures each application’s specific technical requirements are met and the right solutions to solve the market need are deployed. If you are a developer, engineer or system integrator, there will be no better opportunity this year to engage with the leading experts in LoRaWAN technology.”

LoRaWAN Ease-of-Use, Flexibility and Security

A mix of live demonstrations and technical sessions will focus on LoRaWAN’s ease of use, flexible deployment options, and multi-RAN capabilities, with topics covering:

• Live Demo: QR codes for zero-touch deployments by Kairos and Microshare
• Live Demo: Satellites by Hangzhou Green Palm Technology Co., Ltd.
• Live Demo: LoRaWAN over IPv6 by Acklio and HT Micron
• Live Demo: FUOTA and Roaming by OrbiWise
• LoRaWAN End-to-End Security Walk-Through: Ensuring IoT Security Today and Tomorrow moderated by Alper Yegin, Actility and featuring MultiTech, Oxit, Semtech, and Senet
• IoT Disruption with Radio Convergence and OpenRoaming, Bruno Tomas, CTO, Wireless Broadband Alliance
• Master Class, IoT: Ideas vs. Reality, Ingi Diego, LORIOT
• DLMS on Multi-RAN Approaches to IoT, Panel Discussion moderated by Vincent Audebert, EDF, with Grupo Equatorial Energia and Acklio
• Using Sticker-like Sensors to Connect Smart Building Surfaces to the Cloud, Matt Johnson, LAIIER
• Using LoRaWAN and GS1 Standards for Asset Tracking, Panel Discussion moderated by Pierre Gelpi, Semtech, with GS1 in Europe, SNCF and WITRAC
• Top Stories Behind Successful LoRaWAN Projects Using the STM32WL Ecosystem, Anicet Giaimo, STMicroelectronics
• LoRaWAN and Satellites Panel Discussion moderated by Rémi Lorrain, Semtech, with Actility, EchoStar Mobile, Eutelsat, and Lacuna Space
• Hands-on Session: Quickly build a private LoRaWAN network with AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kore Wireless and MultiTech
• Diversity of Network and Business Models with LoRaWAN, moderated by Rémi Lorrain, Semtech, with Actility, ATC Brazil, Everynet, Helium Foundation, NNNCo, Senet and SenRa
• Smart Cities Panel moderated by Moor Insights & Strategy’s Will Townsend, featuring the Town of Cary, North Carolina, City of Gold Coast, Australia and the City of Bernau, Germany

LoRaWAN Certification

The value of LoRaWAN certification is another key focus of the event because it provides assurance to the market that devices will perform as intended. Featured activities and sessions include:

• Wall of sensors showcasing gateways and LoRaWAN CertifiedCM sensors and how they address multiple vertical market applications
• Live Demo: LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT) Demo by IMST
• New LoRa Alliance Vice President of Certification Paul Hampton will discuss the value of certification and latest updates from the alliance
• Getting Started with the LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT) Pre-Testing Tool, Itziar de la Torre, IMST GmbH

LoRaWAN Solution Demos

Live demonstrations will showcase LoRaWAN solutions and how they support a wide variety of vertical markets including smart industry, logistics, agriculture, cities, buildings, homes and utilities:

• Approve-IT: Regulatory certification requirements for LoRaWAN products and database of general radio certification requirements
• Asystom: Predictive maintenance for Industry 4.0
• Dracula Technologies: Sustainable and tailor-made indoor energy to power LoRaWAN devices
• Elvexys SA: Electrical measurements and fault detection deployed in MV/LV stations. Transmission via LoRaWAN to various management and analysis systems
• Murata: The power of two to connect the many: powerful, fast and scalable solutions for IoT projects
• OrionM2M: Remote metering of cold and hot water, gas, and electricity, heating system monitoring and intelligent lighting
• Politecnico di Torino: Smart irrigation
• Thingy IoT: Wildfire smoke and air quality monitoring with Thingy AQ
• Urbit Group: Wireless and self-powered hybrid device to transfer data from sensors to the cloud
• Wi6Labs: Cloud/Edge LoRaWAN private network solutions

“I cannot wait to welcome our ecosystem to Paris to discover the Power of LoRaWAN and learn why LoRaWAN is dominating the LPWAN IoT market and adding tremendous value to business, people and the planet. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to hear from the biggest names in LPWAN,” said Moore.

Thanks to the LoRaWAN World Expo Premier Sponsors

• Platinum Level: Semtech
• Silver Level: Actility, Birdz, KERLINK, RAKwireless, STMicroelectronics
• Bronze Level: AWS, Browan Communications, ControlliX, Digi International, Ivanti Wavelink, MClimate, MultiTech, Murata Manufacturing, OrbiWise, TEKTELIC
• Speaker Sponsor: Kiwi technology; MachineQ, a Comcast Company

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The LoRa Alliance Membership will enable Agrology to quickly expand its network reach and engage in new partnership opportunities.

Agrology, the leading Predictive Agricultural company and a Public Benefit Corporation, today announced the company has joined the LoRa Alliance®, one of the fastest growing Internet of Things (IoT) alliances in the world.

Using LoRaWAN® Low Power Wide Area Networking (LPWAN) technology, Agrology is accelerating the development of its proprietary IoT network of GroundTruth sensors across rural farming communities. In addition, Agrology is engaging with LoRa Alliance members for new business opportunities.

The LoRa Alliance is an open, nonprofit association that has become one of the largest and fastest-growing alliances in the technology sector. Its members closely collaborate and share experiences to promote and drive the success of the LoRaWAN standard as the leading open global standard for secure, carrier-grade IoT LPWAN connectivity. With the technical flexibility to address a broad range of IoT applications, both static and mobile, and a certification program to guarantee interoperability, LoRaWAN has already been deployed by major mobile network operators globally.

“Our approach to agriculture technology has been unique since day one and our LoRa Alliance membership is the perfect representation of that,” said Tyler Locke, Co-Founder and CTO at Agrology. “LoRaWAN technology inspired us to enhance our approach by developing our own network that provides connectivity in the most remote locations. This not only advances our ability to deliver in-depth, real-time data to growers, but also keeps our highly advanced platform inexpensive to deploy.”

Agrology GroundTruth sensors gather multiple data points in real time. When cellular connectivity isn’t available, low-cost wireless technology like LoRaWAN enables Agrology to securely deploy private networks, ultimately creating a private, secure wireless network for Agrology customers. This solves a number of issues with agriculture technology deployments. Agrology is also supporting the LoRaWAN ecosystem and the development of technical standards for IoT connectivity by bringing carrier-grade IoT LoRaWAN connectivity to Agrology customers.

Locke added:

“We can now further our reach and gather the largest amount of data through low-cost IoT connected devices in fields everywhere,”

“I’m very excited to welcome Agrology to the LoRa Alliance,” said ​​Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “LoRaWAN represents a massive opportunity for smart agriculture because of its ability to transmit data over long distances for 10 years or more. By providing access to critical data, Agrology enables true precision agriculture that will optimize farm productivity and conserve water by reducing waste. Its understanding of this critical vertical market will add value to the alliance and further advance LoRaWAN’s use in smart agriculture.”

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The LoRa Alliance® today announced that LoRaWAN now seamlessly supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) from end-to-end.

By expanding the breadth of device-to-application solutions with IPv6, LoRaWAN’s addressable IoT market is also broadened to include internet-based standards required in smart electricity metering and new applications in smart buildings, industries, logistics, and homes.

The new IPv6 adaptation layer facilitates and accelerates development of secure and interoperable applications over LoRaWAN and builds on the alliance’s commitment to ease of use. IP-based solutions, commonly found in enterprise and industrial solutions, among many others, can now be transmitted over LoRaWAN, and easily integrated with cloud infrastructures. This allows developers to quickly enable internet-based applications, while significantly reducing time-to-market and total cost of ownership.

“As digitization across market sectors continues, integrating multiple technologies to achieve end-to-end solutions is critical,” said Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “At the same time, companies are requiring solutions that provide increased interoperability and adhere to standards. Now that LoRaWAN readily integrates with any IP application, end users have both. IPv6 is a core technology underpinning IoT, so enabling IPv6 over LoRaWAN opens a huge number of new markets and a much larger addressable application space to LoRaWAN. Developers and end users with IPv6 devices recognize the benefits of digital transformation and IoT, and already create solutions that can improve lives and the environment, as well as drive new revenue streams.”

“By supporting IPv6, they now have a simple path to use LoRaWAN and benefit from the technology’s proven advantages. With this development, LoRaWAN once again positions itself a market leader at the forefront of IoT.”

The successful development of IPv6 Over LoRaWAN is credited to the active collaboration of LoRa Alliance members in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to specify the Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) and fragmentation techniques, which makes transport of the IP packets over LoRaWAN very efficient. The LoRa Alliance IPv6 over LoRaWAN Task Force then took the SCHC specification (RFC 90111) and integrated it into the body of the LoRaWAN standard. LoRa Alliance member company, Acklio, made significant contributions to enable IPv6 over LoRaWAN and was integral to the development of the SCHC technology for LoRaWAN.

Moore continued, “I want to thank Acklio on behalf of the LoRa Alliance for its support and contributions to this effort, and its efforts to drive the LoRaWAN standard forward.”

“Acklio, a pioneer of SCHC technology, is proud to contribute to this new milestone that makes LoRaWAN natively compatible with Internet technologies,” said Alexander Pelov, CEO of Acklio. “The LoRa Alliance ecosystem has mobilized for the specification and adoption of this key feature in record time. SCHC solutions that are compliant with this new specification are now commercially available from partners across the IoT value chain to deploy IPv6 over LoRaWAN solutions worldwide.”

The first application to leverage SCHC for IPv6 over LoRaWAN is DLMS/COSEM for smart metering. It was developed as part of the liaison between LoRa Alliance and DLMS User Association to address electric utilities requirement for the use of IP-based standards. There are many additional applications for IPv6 over LoRaWAN, such as monitoring internet networking equipment, reading RFID labels, and IP-based smart home applications, among others.

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A fews weeks ahead of the (Paris – July 6-7, 2022), IoT Business News had the opportunity to interview Donna Moore, CEO of the LoRa Alliance®. In this interview, Donna shares with us the latest developments and dynamics of the LoRaWAN technology in the Covid and post-Covid contexts, as well as the specific focus and ambitions of the soon-to-come LoRaWAN World Expo.

Last year, the LoRaWAN standard experienced its strongest year ever in terms of adoption, deployments, and expanded capabilities. How do you explain such dynamics in the context of global pandemic and chip shortages?

Donna Moore: It is widely recognized that the pandemic massively accelerated digital transformation. First, it increased the awareness and need for IoT, for applications ranging from assuring safety to automating processes to the importance of capturing real-time data to make decisions. Many industries faced questions about how to serve a greater number of people without sacrificing the level of service, all while facing labor and material shortages, as well as logistics and supply issues. This created fear and uncertainty, which all – in turn – significantly accelerated digital transformation in business, government entities (local, state/regional, and national), and the public sector.

LoRaWAN was the best solution to capture this acceleration because of the technology’s ability and readiness to enable IoT. LoRaWAN is an open standard, with the largest ecosystem, and already had millions of successful deployments globally. When the pandemic hit, overall demand increased, and so did the need for solutions “right now,” which further accelerated LoRaWAN’s scaling. Although supply chain and logistics issues remain, the LoRaWAN ecosystem had the ingenuity to solve challenges that Covid brought to light, while continuing to advance the technology in parallel.

Have new applications and use cases emerged for the LoRaWAN technology in relation to the COVID crisis and global health situation?

I would say yes and no. Many of the applications were not necessarily new, but the development time from the initial use case to the deployed product was significantly accelerated. LoRa Alliance members rapidly met the needs of new use cases based on the need for social distancing and safety. Some examples of use cases that emerged or were leveraged to address Covid-related challenges were:

• Providing communications capabilities and repurposing LoRaWAN panic buttons for use as hospital call buttons in makeshift hospitals
• Monitoring air and water quality
• Finding ways to keep employees safe via monitoring and creating six-foot distancing solutions
• Monitoring public restrooms to ensure they were always clean
• Monitoring buildings for cleaning, room usage and contact tracing

It is important to remember that all these use cases had to be performed without any face-to-face interaction. Emerging requirements like these drove LoRaWAN’s growth in multiple vertical markets such as utilities, industry, smart buildings, and smart cities. It also became readily apparent that once a network is set up for an initial application, it is very easy and cost effective to add additional applications and expand into new markets.

The LoRaWAN World Expo will take place in Paris on July 6-7. This global event will include dedicated sessions on environmental sustainability. What were the drivers for this particular focus?

Our vision is to improve the quality of people’s lives and the environment. Sessions dedicated to environmental sustainability are a direct extension of that vision. But more than that, environmental sustainability has become a worldwide necessity, not just a goal, so it is a crucial need to collaborate as a global community to solve these issues.

LoRaWAN is ideally suited for environmental applications because it is low power and long-range, devices can be updated remotely with firmware updates over the air, and gateways and devices are designed to withstand the elements. This allows sensors to be deployed at great distances for long periods without worrying about battery life. In addition, LoRaWAN is the only LPWAN with a variety of network options. Solutions can be deployed on a public, private, satellite, community or hybrid network to empower many applications, even in remote areas.

According to the World Economic Forum’s Internet of Things Guidelines for Sustainability report¹, 84% of IoT deployments currently address, or have the potential to address, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). How does this potential translate into the LoRaWAN ecosystem? Has the Alliance seen significant growth in the number of environmentally and socially responsible projects? Can you give some examples?

LoRa Alliance’s vision to improve quality of life and protect the planet’s resources fully supports the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) and its objectives to strive toward a peaceful and prosperous planet. As the de facto standard for low power wide area networking (LPWAN) connectivity for internet of things (IoT), the LoRaWAN standard is deployed in a wide variety of solutions that support these global goals. In fact, in 2020, the LoRa Alliance launched the “LoRaWAN for Good” initiative supporting the UN’s 17 SDGs. We asked members to submit their deployments, and they enthusiastically responded to show how they are addressing the planet’s needs. This campaign was the beginning of a multi-stage approach to supporting the UN’s SDGs, and we are now evolving this campaign to focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. We have dedicated a special focus at the LoRaWAN World Expo to this evolution by devoting an entire track to ESG topics.

I am happy to share a sample of deployments that exemplify the LoRa Alliance’s, and its members’, commitment to creating a smarter and safer planet.

• For Water Conservation, LoRaWAN has been integrated into water management systems, smart homes, and buildings to monitor water usage, optimize use to avoid waste, and identify leaks before they become a problem.
• For Sustainable Farming, farmers and ranchers use LoRaWAN to measure environmental conditions that influence crop production and livestock health. This increases efficiency, maximizing yield while minimizing expenses.
• For Flood Monitoring, LoRaWAN is used to monitor rising sea levels, rivers, and streams. Collected data has been vital for alerting officials when there is a high flood risk.
• For Wildlife Protection, LoRaWAN is used to track endangered species and protect them from poachers. Actionable data is analyzed to allow park rangers to follow wildlife movement and monitor park perimeters, ensuring wildlife safety.

The line-up of speakers announced at the Expo includes several representatives from EU commissions and regulatory authorities. Is this a sign that LoRaWAN is now visible and recognized by public authorities as a key technology in the telecom landscape, just like the cellular communication technologies are?

Yes, LoRaWAN’s role in the telecom landscape is growing and increasingly recognized by regulatory authorities, governments, and private businesses alike. The LoRa Alliance actively works with regulatory bodies around the world to educate and ensure access to the license-free spectrum. Our recognition last year by ITU-T as a global networking standard furthered our recognition as an important technology in this landscape. Another example of how our active work with regulatory bodies globally has increased LoRaWAN’s visibility and recognition with regulators is the recent authorizations in Israel and India, which allow for full commercial LoRaWAN deployments. In addition, RFPs and tenders from governmental bodies are increasingly specifying use of certified devices using the LoRaWAN standard, demonstrating LoRaWAN’s increased recognition and value as an industry standard.

How does this edition of the Expo stand with regard to previous shows organized by the Alliance? Is there a change in scale for this new edition to reflect the massive development of the LoRaWAN technology in recent years (in terms of adoption and deployments)? Can you give us some key numbers about this event?

The LoRa Alliance is driving and inspiring digital transformation because of our successful deployments, open and large ecosystem, and technical advantages. We are scaling because once a LoRaWAN network is up and running, additional use cases can easily be added without incurring additional costs. Because we are an open standard, unlimited numbers and types of solutions have been developed by hundreds of different companies, all of which drives scale. Additionally, massive IoT is ushering in an exciting era of opportunity to increase global sustainability, safety, and efficiencies for the planet and its people. Because of these factors, the LoRaWAN World Expo will be the largest global event the LoRa Alliance has ever hosted and its first multi-day event. The Expo evolved into such a large-scale event because of the market’s increasing demand for education, desire to network with the LoRaWAN ecosystem, and need for opportunities to explore new partnerships.

Over 90 speakers from around the globe will participate in over 60 sessions across four content tracks. The exhibition floor will have over 70 booths from members of the LoRaWAN ecosystem, and we will host live demonstrations of LoRaWAN in action. Without question, this is the only official LoRaWAN event and one you cannot afford to miss if you are looking to grow your IoT business. The Expo will be the one opportunity this year where you can learn how to develop, deploy, and partner with other members of the LoRaWAN community – this event is not to be missed!

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Expansion in Global Networks Driven by Satellite, Community and License-Exempt Network Operators Deploying New Infrastructure for LPWAN IoT.

The LoRa Alliance®, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® standard for the internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), today announced the number of public LoRaWAN networks, which are available globally, has grown by 66% over the past three years.

Historically, public LPWAN network deployment was driven by mobile network operators (MNOs); however, much of the recent growth has been enabled largely by non-MNOs that are building critical dedicated infrastructure to support the expanding needs of LPWAN IoT. Recent investments by satellite and community LoRaWAN network providers, along with roaming availability in over 23 countries, have further accelerated network availability and global coverage (see the current list of LoRa Alliance members that operate public LoRaWAN networks below). At the same time, private networks are also experiencing an explosive rate of growth. This new landscape for LoRaWAN networks shows growth in diversity—public, community, satellite and private, as well as hybrid network approaches—which is a competitive differentiator for LoRaWAN.

“LoRaWAN network operators are building new types of infrastructure to meet future IoT networking requirements,” said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “This evolution in the types of networks and network providers is expected—and a sign of a healthy and vibrant market. These new network players are nimble, agile and able to grow beyond the constraints of preexisting network infrastructure. They are successfully building profitable business models to maximize the value of their LoRaWAN networks and meet the evolving needs of LPWAN IoT deployments. LoRaWAN is the only LPWAN providing a choice of network types, along with interoperability and roaming between networks, that will continue to drive strong growth in LoRaWAN network capacity.”

Today’s agile network operators benefit from the market’s evolving requirements for coverage, availability and accessibility worldwide. LoRaWAN infrastructure is low cost, easy to deploy and offers flexibility, which is driving the technology’s strong growth. This shift in the market toward a choice of infrastructure solutions allows businesses to capitalize on the huge LPWAN market opportunity. This supports the continued evolution in the life cycle of the emerging IoT market.

Steve Hoffenberg, director and industry analyst at market research firm VDC Research, said:

“The installed base of LPWAN devices will exceed 2 billion units in 2025.”

“With LoRaWAN’s low-cost gateways, ready adaptability to both public and private networks, and satellite capability, it is uniquely positioned to bring connectivity to the widest range of devices and places, helping to drive the market growth of LPWANs.”

Moore continued, “It is an exciting time to be part of the LoRa Alliance, because the evolving market is driving innovation that can only be addressed by our ecosystem. The variety of IoT use cases demands the flexibility and choice that LoRaWAN can deliver. We have hundreds of members that span numerous verticals developing countless solutions to improve the planet and citizens’ lives, while also improving businesses’ performance and profits. With the innovation from our open global ecosystem and flexibility to accommodate a wide variety of business models, LoRaWAN continues to be the thought and market leader in LPWAN.”

Please join us at the taking place in Paris July 6-7. As the largest official LoRaWAN event, the Expo is the best opportunity this year to learn about LoRaWAN technology and how companies are achieving strong ROI on their deployments, products and services. with discount code LWE-SAVE10 to save 10% on your event pass.

LoRa Alliance Public Network Operators

There are 170 global LoRaWAN public network operators. LoRa Alliance members that operate the majority of these networks are listed below:

• MNOs: Afgan Wireless Communication Company, British Telecommunications Plc, KPN, NTT Business Solutions Corporation, Orange, Proximus, SK Telecom, Swisscom, Telekom Srbija
• License-Exempt Operators: 3S, A2A Smart City, Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd., Antenna Hungaria ZRT, API-K, Arteria, AXATEL SRL, Birdz, Cellnex Telecom, S.A., Ceske Radiokomunikace, a.s., Charter Communications, Connexin Ltd., Definium Technologies, Pty Ltd., digimondo GmbH, Digita Oy, eleven-X, Emitel S.A., Emrit, ER-Telecom, Everynet, Hangzhou Lowan Information Technology Co., Hutchison Drei Austria, IHS Holding Limited, Komro GmbH, Last Mile Solutions AS, Lyse AS, Lysir ehf, MachineQ -a Comcast Company, Machines Talk, Meshed Pty Ltd, Minol Zenner Connect GmbH, MIOT Melita.io Technology GmbH, Nesten, Netmore Group, Netze BW, NNNCo, North SV, Nova Track Limited, PacketWorx Inc., Pingday AB, PT Telkom Indonesia, RSAWEB IOT, SEAS-NVE, Senet, SenRa, SenseWay Inc., Shenzhen Easylinkin Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems SoftBank, Spark, Tata Communications, UAB Mainlink, Unidata, UPLINK Network GmbH, Ventia Utility Services Pty Ltd, X-Telia Group Inc.
• Satellite Network Operators: Echostar Mobile Ltd, Eutelsat S.A., Fleet Space Technologies Pty Ltd, Lacuna Space
• Community Network Operators: LORIOT, The Helium Foundation, The Things Network Foundation
• Roaming Hubs/Virtual Networks: Actility, Everynet, Senet

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Newly announced ESG sessions feature industry leaders from Kerlink, Microshare, Microsoft, CBRE and the EU Commission; Speakers also added from Tata Communications and the Helium Foundation (Helium).

The LoRa Alliance®, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® standard for the internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), today announced the expanded program for the LoRaWAN World Expo, taking place at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, July 6-7, 2022.

New additions to the program focus on why LoRaWAN is the leading LPWAN to support businesses’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices while delivering a strong return on investment (ROI).

“Global demand for LoRaWAN solutions has exploded–in part to address ESG requirements,” said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance.

“Automated alerts triggered by analysis of the data LoRaWAN collects is creating significant opportunities for resource conservation, predictive maintenance, and safety, as well as waste reduction, to improve efficiencies and effectiveness of our resources.”

“LoRaWAN is the most widely deployed LPWAN solution because the market trusts the technology, which has global network availability, the ability to roam globally, and delivers considerable cost savings.”

LoRaWAN’s growth has been driven in large part by the acceleration of digital transformation, which moved from nice-to-have to a necessity among enterprises and cities globally, spurred on by the lessons learned from COVID-19. In short, digitization has become critical to providing safe environments, for the health welfare and safety of our citizens and planet.

Moore continued, “Whether you are just starting your IoT journey or deeply engaged in deployments, join us to see how LoRaWAN positively impacts our lives and the health of the planet, and drives businesses’ efforts in these areas. The LoRaWAN World Expo is the best opportunity in 2022 to hear from the brightest minds in the IoT industry and network with LoRaWAN market leaders. With a focus on social responsibility, attendees will discover how LoRaWAN is profitable for their companies, beneficial to the global community, and a means to become better corporate citizens.”

While LoRaWAN is already supporting people, planet, and profits, the LoRa Alliance recognizes its growth potential and is excited to have leveraged this theme across many of the sessions during the Expo. According to the World Economic Forum’s Internet of Things Guidelines for Sustainability report, 84% of IoT deployments currently address, or have the potential to address, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Expo’s environmental sustainability sessions cover a broad range of topics around smart agriculture and irrigation, smart buildings and cities, climate change and its environmental impact, disaster prevention and the green new deal, as well as wildlife preservation. A number of sessions will focus on societal considerations, such as healthcare, elder care, workforce safety, heritage preservation and more. Finally, representatives from think tanks and governmental organizations like Arcep, ITU-T and the European Union Commission for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth will address key considerations for LoRaWAN and how it relates to governance.

Don’t miss out on your chance to experience the LoRaWAN World Expo:

• Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities are still available; contact events@lora-alliance.org for details.
• Book your exhibition space
• Register now

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2021 was LoRaWAN’s strongest year ever in terms of global adoption, deployments and expanded roaming; formally recognized as a standard by ITU-T.

The LoRa Alliance®, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® standard for the internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), today announced significant market traction across France and Spain, which positions LoRaWAN as the preferred LPWAN technology in the region.

LoRaWAN is already recognized as the global choice for LPWAN, with more than 225 million LoRa/LoRaWAN end nodes and growing, and LoRaWAN networks available worldwide.

In France, more than 3.5 million assets are already connected using LoRa/LoRaWAN, with over 1.5M additional LoRaWAN devices in deployment and multiple countrywide networks. In Spain, there are already 500,000 devices deployed using LoRaWAN, and adoption is increasing rapidly, with more than 200,000 to be deployed in 2022, with nationwide network rollouts actively underway. For example, the Spanish government has set the ambitious goal of deploying 13.5 million smart water meters by 2025 – an estimated 1.35 billion Euro investment. LoRa Alliance member Everynet has joined forces with American Tower de Espana, the largest independent towerco in the country with more than 11,000 tower sites, to deploy a national LoRaWAN network in support of the governments’ goal. Given these projects in Spain, a consensus of industry analysts forecast that LoRaWAN will reach 2 million connections over the next few years.

“LoRaWAN has experienced strong growth in France and Spain based on its excellent track record of supporting a range of IoT applications that deliver a strong ROI to businesses,” said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance.

“With heightened global demand for IoT using LPWAN technologies, LoRaWAN is trusted. Combining this with broad network availability, considerable cost savings compared to NB-IoT and the ability to roam globally, LoRaWAN is the leading choice for LPWAN across multiple end markets.”

“2021 marked a turning point for LoRaWAN, as hundreds of companies in multiple sectors deployed large-scale LoRaWAN solutions that connected millions of objects to the internet,” she continued. “LoRa Alliance membership is active and growing in Europe broadly and France and Spain specifically, which is driving multiple large-scale deployments by some of the region’s leading companies, including Actility, Arson Metering, Cellnex, Engie, Everynet, Michelin, Orange, Parki, and Renault.”

LoRaWAN is the only LPWAN scaling with mass deployments and global roaming availability, which is backed by a broad, global ecosystem. Its growth was driven in large part by the acceleration of digital transformation, which moved from nice-to-have to a necessity among enterprises and cities globally, spurred on by the lessons learned from COVID-19. In short, digitization has become critical to providing better and more services to people to ensure safe environments.

There are many key enablers of LoRaWAN’s mass adoption:

• Recognized as an international open standard by independent SDO ITU-T
• Exponential growth in network coverage, which became worldwide in 2021
• Global roaming with flexible network models, which offer public, private, hybrid and community network options, ensuring long-term viability to serve the needs of a diverse and growing market
• Significant growth in deployments of scale driving digital transformation and delivering ROI
• Large and diverse membership ensures availability of products from multiple suppliers, ensuring complete freedom of choice for customers
• The maturity of the LoRaWAN ecosystem is proven in several verticals

“The LoRaWAN market has been following the classic ‘hype cycle.’ We are now entering the steady growth phase, with 100% year-on-year growth for connected devices,” said Olivier Hersent, CEO and CTO at Actility. “We are seeing the expected consolidation of the smaller players, as customers are no longer early adopters but mature industries, including Bouygues Construction, Schneider Electric, SNCF, Total, Veolia/Birdz and Volvo. LoRaWAN has become a ‘must have’ capability complementing leading IoT platforms to inject massive sensing data with minimum infrastructure and deployment overheads. The Actility ThingPark platform has made this seamless, and Actility ThingPark Exchange interconnects an increasing number of public and private LoRaWAN networks, with 60% YoY growth for deployed LoRaWAN network gateways.”

“This is the ideal time for the mass adoption of LoRaWAN technology, particularly as utilities and cities around the world look to become more connected and improve sustainability,” stated Everynet CEO Lawrence Latham. “LoRaWAN offers a far lower total cost of ownership and is highly secure. And it helps enterprises reduce their carbon footprint, which is something we all need to be focused on.”

An article from Journal du Net cited a recent BearingPoint report, which noted that in France, LoRa/LoRaWAN is chosen for 64% of new IoT projects, far ahead of cellular (29%) and Sigfox (25%). The LoRa Alliance expects that gap to widen because LoRaWAN offers the opportunity to support customers with multimode solutions for end devices, enabling the same device to use LoRaWAN, Sigfox or other connectivity. Murata, AcSip and Nemeus, for example, offer modules that support both Sigfox and LoRaWAN. Further supporting this approach, many public operators can support multi-RAN deployments providing multiple connectivity options to end users. Multimode approaches give users choice for the long haul and a pathway to enable even more IoT use cases because of the dual technology possibilities. They also assure long-term ROI and viability of technology choices without the need to modify or replace existing systems.

LoRaWAN World Expo Coming to Paris

The LoRa Alliance will host the LoRaWAN World Expo at the Palais des Congrès July 6-7. The program will have a key focus on the French and Spanish markets, featuring Mariya Gabriel, European commissioner for innovation, research, culture, education and youth; Laure de la Raudière, president of France’s Electronic Communications, Postal and Print Media Distribution Regulatory Authority Arcep; Daniel Mes, Member of the Cabinet of Executive Vice-President on the European Green Deal; and Juan Ramon Arraibi, COO of Nortegas. The Expo will provide visitors access to the full LoRaWAN ecosystem, the opportunity to network with leading experts and businesses using LoRaWAN to understand how they are achieving strong ROIs. Attendees will gain an understanding of how to accelerate their LoRaWAN activities across any vertical or geographic region to grow their business. Finally, visitors will experience the impact of LoRaWAN firsthand, and can learn the fundamentals of LoRaWAN technology.

“It is clear the world stage is set for significant, rapid market acceleration of LoRaWAN in the coming year, with France and Spain among the leaders in Europe, along with the U.K., Germany and Italy. As we look ahead to the rest of 2022, I’m very excited to bring the LoRaWAN community together at the LoRaWAN World Expo to experience the technology’s global impact and invite participants from all companies considering LPWAN solutions to join us to understand why LoRaWAN is the market leader and how it can easily serve their long-term LPWAN needs, whether they’re just starting their IoT journey or considering alternative solutions,” said Moore.

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The LoRaWAN standard experienced its strongest year ever in terms of adoption, deployments and expanded capabilities; capped off 2021 with formal acceptance as a standard by ITU-T.

The LoRa Alliance® today issued its 2021 End of Year Report*, a comprehensive look at its activities and achievements in 2021.

The report highlights the alliance’s accomplishments that drove massive scaling over the past year.

“2021 saw many critical achievements that advanced the standard and LoRaWAN’s standing as the leading LPWAN technology,” said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “The industry at large has recognized the value of LoRaWAN and its benefits: an open standard, business model flexibility, support from a large and diverse ecosystem that drives innovation, vendor choice, network coverage worldwide, and the backing of a strong certification program to ensure the interoperability and consistency needed for scale.”

“Our commitment to a multi-RAN strategy further demonstrates the advantages of using open standards. Finally, our members have experienced growth across a huge range of vertical markets where LoRaWAN’s low power and long range are a critical differentiator.”

Several market factors drove LoRaWAN’s rapid scaling over the past year:

• Accepted as an international standard by an independent SDO
• Recognition of the importance of LoRaWAN’s network model flexibility, which offers public, private and hybrid network options, ensures long-term viability and fit-for-purpose networking to serve the needs of a diverse and growing market
• LoRaWAN coverage grew exponentially, becoming ubiquitous in 2021 with LoRaWAN networks operational in almost every country
• Significant growth in deployments of scale that demonstrated that LoRaWAN is critically important to the digital transformation of all businesses
• Strong increase in membership, with the alliance adding nearly 100 new members in 2021, and the pace of membership growth in early 2022 is already increasing

Additionally, the LoRa Alliance led several efforts to make LoRaWAN easier to develop and deploy, to enhance its certification program and to foster collaboration among members. Key achievements over the past year include:

• Simplified volume deployments by enhancing the LoRaWAN standard and publishing a series of best practice guidelines
• Launched the Connect Initiative, which led to multiple network operators deploying roaming-capable platforms and entering into commercial agreements, further accelerating the expansion of LoRaWAN roaming
• Increased multi-RAN capabilities through new collaborations with GS1 and OMS that built on earlier efforts with Bluetooth, RFID, Wi-Fi and others to expand market opportunities
• Expanded the ecosystem and secured membership of key market leaders to advance the technology and strengthen opportunities for collaboration and development of end-to-end solutions
• Increased LoRaWAN end-device certifications and market leadership with the most certified end-devices of any LPWAN
• LoRa Alliance members receive support in driving their business, including the introduction of LoRaWAN RFP & Tenders Connect for access to global LPWAN bids and link to third-party marketplaces for product purchase
• Increased the visibility of LoRa Alliance members’ services and products with enhancements to the LoRaWAN Showcase and created a new Resource Library on the alliance website to support the ongoing needs of the LPWAN market
• Expanded the LoRa Alliance NetID program to make it more accessible to members and non-members alike, increasing LoRaWAN’s reach

“It is clear the world stage is set for significant, rapid market acceleration of LoRaWAN in the coming year. As we look ahead to the rest of 2022, I’m very excited that we will have the opportunity to bring the LoRaWAN community together at the LoRaWAN World Expo in Paris this summer to experience the technology’s global impact,” said Moore.

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The LoRa Alliance®, today announced that it has significantly enhanced LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT) functionality with the addition of numerous new testing capabilities.

This expands the self-testing that end-device manufacturers can perform to validate end-device performance before seeking formal certification from a LoRa Alliance Authorized Test House (ATH). The ability to self-test significantly accelerates the certification process while offering much greater return on investment (ROI) savings.

“A strong certification program is a must for any global standard to be successful,” said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance.

“The LoRa Alliance continuously enhances its certification program to ensure certification testing tools are robust while also minimizing the time and cost required to certify. RFPs and tenders for IoT deployments are increasingly requiring LoRaWAN certification. These enhancements to the LCTT make it easier than ever for end-device manufacturers to validate reliability and interoperability, thereby accelerating deployment effectiveness and enabling massive scale.”

New testing capabilities incorporated in to the LCTT include:

• LoRaWAN Layer 2 (L2) – v1.0.2 and v1.0.4 Specifications, including:
• Class A, B and C
• Long Range Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (LR-FHSS)
• Back-off retransmission
• Certification by similarity
• Regional Parameters V1.02 and 1.03
• OTAA/ABP
• Adaptive Data Rate
• Transmit Power Control
• Confirmed/Unconfirmed Frame Tests
• Receive Window Tests
• Cryptography Tests
• Add/Modify Channel Tests
• Retransmission of Confirmed Frames

Benefits of using the LCTT include:

• An accelerated certification process: manufacturers debug and finalize their end-devices prior to starting the formal certification process
• Significant cost savings— time, labor and money—to manufacturers who do not need to build their own test tools
• Assurance to customers that certified end-devices are reliable within their networks, where channel plans are supported or when roaming
• Future-proofing of end-devices through demonstrated interoperability
• Ability to quickly meet expectations of LoRaWAN network operators, who require certification when deploying rapid and large-scale solutions
• End-device testing is currently supported in most countries worldwide and continues to grow
• 17 test houses worldwide support LoRaWAN certification testing

LoRa Alliance members’ certified products will be listed in the alliance’s LoRaWAN Showcase. The Showcase is the official listing of LoRaWAN Certified^CM devices and provides manufacturers global product visibility to grow their businesses. Each member receives one free LCTT license with their membership and may purchase additional ones.

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Broader access to NetID allocations enlarges LoRaWAN ecosystem.

The LoRa Alliance®, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® standard for the internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), today announced that it has enhanced and expanded its LoRaWAN NetID program.

The changes will increase access to NetID licenses for LoRa Alliance members and non-members alike, which will in turn accelerate global roaming deployments.

“LoRaWAN is an open global standard with full roaming capabilities already available internationally and via satellite,” said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance.

“LoRaWAN is rapidly becoming ubiquitous. To support all LoRaWAN users for roaming worldwide, we have increased access to our NetID program, growing LoRaWAN’s reach and enabling true global roaming.”

NetID is a 24-bit network identifier assigned to LoRaWAN networks by the LoRa Alliance to allow network traffic to be recognized. The IDs are an essential element of roaming because devices that leave their home network need to use a unique identifier that can be globally identified and allow roaming partners to recognize each other’s traffic.

Broadening the LoRaWAN NetID program will enable members to grow their networks and increase access to roaming. LoRa Alliance members will continue to receive NetIDs as part of their membership based on their membership level. In addition, under the new program, LoRa Alliance members who want supplemental NetIDs will be able to license unlimited number of Type 7 NetIDs for a management fee. Similarly, companies who are not members of the LoRa Alliance are now able to purchase and license a limited number of Type 7 NetIDs. Companies who require more than this limit are encouraged to join the LoRa Alliance for additional NetID licenses.

Moore continued, “Extending NetID availability allows the entire IoT LPWAN market to reap the benefits of LoRaWAN. This will help companies address new application and facilitate stronger connections with LoRa Alliance members, driving new business opportunities. At the same time, it provides existing members with an easier path to scaling their own LoRaWAN operations, which in turn drives more partnerships via roaming, more innovation and additional revenue.”

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The LoRa Alliance®, today announced that LoRaWAN was officially approved as a standard by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs).

The standard is titled Recommendation ITU-T Y.4480 “Low power protocol for wide area wireless networks” and is under the responsibility of Study Group 20 of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), ITU’s standardization expert group for “Internet of Things and smart cities and communities.”

“LoRaWAN was developed as an open standard from the very beginning, which was recognized by the LPWAN community and demonstrated by its rapid global adoption as the LPWAN for IoT,” said Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance.

“We undertook this endeavor with ITU-T to have LoRaWAN formally documented as an international standard by an independent authority because of our commitment to openness and standardization–which are critical to achieving the interoperability needed for massive scaling. The transposition as an ITU-T Recommendation validates the market’s decision to adopt LoRaWAN as an internationally recognized standard and sets the stage for even more growth.”

“I would like to applaud ITU members and the LoRa Alliance for their work together in paving the way for this significant agreement,” said Bilel Jamoussi, Chief of Study Groups for the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau. “Collaboration among standardization communities continues to grow in importance alongside the accelerating digital transformation underway across our economies. We see strong commitment to building synergies among standardization efforts in ITU’s work for the Internet of Things and smart cities and communities, and the approval of this new international standard demonstrates that this is a commitment that ITU shares with the LoRa Alliance.”

The LoRa Alliance has been engaged with ITU throughout much of 2021 to complete its qualification process. The Study Groups of ITU-T assemble experts from around the world to develop international standards, known as ITU-T Recommendations, which act as defining elements in the global infrastructure of ICTs.

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