BROWSING: LoRa

LoRa and LoRaWAN are related but distinct. Despite their burgeoning reputation as the go-to technologies for internet-of-things (IoT) based systems, and their increasing familiarity among low-power wide-area networking (LPWAN) operatives in any number of sectors, they are also often confused. Here, Enterprise IoT Insights...

Comcast has hooked up the “epicentre of IoT” by making live its LoRaWAN-based machineQ service in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California. The launch, one of 10 new machineQ networks to go live in recent weeks, will stimulate local start-ups and developers to...

Proximus is launching a narrowband internet-of-thing (NB-IoT) network to run alongside its LoRaWAN infrastructure in the Flemish Region in the north of Belgium. The NB-IoT deployment, commissioned by IBM and Sagecom, is initially trained on 1.3 million digital smart meters for monitoring the supply...

IoT platform provider Actility has been appointed by Öresundskraft, a regional energy and fibre broadband provider in Sweden, to help it build out an open-access LoRaWAN network, starting in the town of Helsingborg, and rolling out across the country. Öresundskraft has established a new ‘city...

Integrated LoRa devices and RF tech make up smart water platform in California-based Semtech Corporation, a supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced that IoTsens, an Internet of Things solutions and services firm, has integrated LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology in...

The fragmented IoT market is hard to understand for enterprises and hard to navigate for operators. Swedish vendor Ericsson says its new IoT 'accelerator' can help both sides. Enterprise IoT Insights chats with Jeff Travers, head of IoT at Ericsson, about the challenge to...

Belgian carrier Proximus has been appointed by the town of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of southern Belgium, to establish a ‘living lab’ for civic-minded IoT applications and services. The joint project, between the city administration and the largest of the country’s three telecoms...

Unlicensed networks, mostly based on LoRa and Sigfox, make up two-thirds of low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks today, according to a study of 100 LPWA networks by IoT research firm ON World. A third of the total network deployments are geared towards smart city applications,...

The internet of things was one of the hottest topics at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, with news of expanding networks and more momentum for various types of IoT connectivity and use cases. Here are some of the major themes of enterprise IoT...

IoT connectivity platform provider Actility has released a slimmed-down version of its ThingPark solution for enterprise customers. ThingPark is the most widely deployed LoRa platform among operators of public LoRA networks. Actility announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona it had signed its fiftieth...

European LoRaWAN roaming will be completed by the end of the year, said the LoRa Alliance at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. European network operators Orange and KPN, in France and the Netherlands respectively, completed the first field tests of roaming between national LoRaWAN...

LoRa, or long-range radio, is moving to a new level just as mobile network operators are rolling out their own low-power networks to compete with LoRa-based wide area networks. Semtech, the chipmaker that developed LoRa, is increasing both the link budget and the battery...

As it continues to develop network support for its internet of things (IoT) strategy, SK Telecom will upgrade its LTE-M network to also support LTE Cat-M1, which the company says will open up  more broad range of IoT applications. For comparison purposes, LTE-M uses up...

Expansion of LoRa IoT network, partnership with HPE mark expansion plans Indian communications service provider Tata Communications is betting big on the expansion of internet of things (IoT) network and solutions with a planned $100 million investment in the space in the coming years, according...

Apart from this LoRa deployment, Ofo said it will continue to explore additional IoT technologies California-based Semtech Corporation announced that ofo, a Chinese bike sharing company, is equipping its bicycles with LoRa devices and wireless RF technology to complement its licensed spectrum connectivity options to...

Senet VP: Cellular a potential disruptor of LoRA, but IoT space big enough to support competition CHICAGO--The internet of things (IoT) market is marked by a variety of competing connectivity types both standardized, like NB-IoT and LTE Cat M1, and those based on access like...

If anything, the idea of a smart city in the conventional sense – where everyday infrastructure is connected up and joined together to bring new intelligence and innovation to city operations – has been made real by low-power wide area (LPWA) technologies. It is these...

The Internet of Life and the ShadowView Foundation leveraging LoRaWAN to protect endangered species The Internet of Life and the ShadowView Foundation announced they have implanted LoRaWAN -equipped sensors directly into the horns of critically endangered black rhinos. The two entities said the sensors give park...

KPN said the new offering allows businesses to connect their own devices to the operator's IoT platform Dutch telecom operator KPN has unveiled a new IoT platform oriented to the enterprise segment. The new solution, dubbed KPN Things, includes hardware, connectivity as well as data...

The Belgian gas distributor will implement this smart metering initiative with Proximus LoRa network Belgium gas distributor Antargaz announced it will equip its propane gas meters with smart sensors, which will automatically transmit meter readings using local telco Proximus' LoRa network. Antargaz said that once the...

LoRa is a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) specification intended for wireless battery operated objects in a regional, national or global network. LoRaWAN targets key requirements of internet of things such as secure bi-directional communication, mobility and localization services. Europe has seen a lot...

Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) is a standards-based low power wide area (LPWA) technology developed to enable a wide range of new IoT devices and services. According to the GSMA, NB-IoT significantly improves the power consumption of user devices, system capacity and spectrum efficiency, especially in...

The new IoT network uses Semtech’s LoRa devices and wireless RF technology Semtech Corporation, an U.S. supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced the expansion in China of a LoRaWAN-based IoT network using Semtech’s LoRa devices and wireless RF technology. The first stage...

As cable giant Comcast expands its internet of things network into 12 U.S. cities, industry consortium CableLabs is launching hardware and software for companies that want to build out IoT networks using long range radio (LoRa) technology. CableLabs said it chose the LoRa standard...