BROWSING: LoRaWAN
What IoT applications does LoRaWAN serve best? Senet suggests 19
LoRaWAN supports a broad set of IoT applications, applicable to a wide variety of vertical markets. Below is a comprehensive list of 19 use cases, as provided by LoRaWAN provider Senet, which offers LoRaWAN infrastructure in 80 countries.
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Shake Shack, Five Guys, Hard Rock Café put LoRaWAN on the menu
Restaurant chains Shake Shack, Five Guys and Hard Rock Café have deployed LoRa-based temperature monitoring systems in their commercial kitchens.
UK firm CM Systems, a specialist in monitoring systems for food safety compliance, has transferred these chains, alongside regional brands like City Barbeque and...
Editorial Webinar: IoT Connectivity: Who is winning what?
For all the experience of LTE and excitement of 5G, the IoT market has been propped by low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies. The concept of smart-anything as the prerequisite for industrial change – in buildings, cities, manufacturing, logistics, agriculture – has gained credence, in large...
NNNCo and Enzen sign $8m deal to drive LoRaWAN ‘at scale’ Down Under
Australian internet-of-things (IoT) operator National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) has signed a strategic investment agreement with global energy and environment company Enzen Group. The $8 million deal is geared towards driving LoRaWAN adoption in Australia “at scale”.
The pair said they are in position to...
LoRa shoots for 75% of IoT market, versus 25% for 5G; aims for stars with satellite constellation
Three quarters of the IoT market will be given over to low-power wide-area (LPWA) network solutions, compared with just one quarter for high-bandwidth low-latency 5G applications.
So says the LoRa Alliance, which continues to push its line about being the key technology in low-power...
Kerlink, Tata ink deal to deploy LoRaWAN IoT networks globally
French IoT specialist Kerlink and Indian company Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS) announced a partnership to promote and deploy LoRaWAN IoT networks globally.
Under the terms of the agreement, Kerlink and TCTS will offer installed and managed networks that include a range of smart-city...
Connecting agriculture: LoRa, NB-IoT, LTE, and 5G – and the digital divide in smart farming (part 1)
The biggest fragmentation in smart agriculture is with base-line connectivity, which establishes the platform for the analytics and automation tools that will change farming.
“Connectivity is a neccessary evil,” says Pete DeNagy, president and co-founder, Internet of Things America. “No business is advantaged by...
LoRa Alliance simplifies device testing for manufacturers and operators
The LoRa Alliance has expanded its LoRaWAN certification programme to simplify and reduce testing for device makers and network operators.
A single certification process will cover conformance, interoperability, and radio-frequency testing, reducing time and expense for device manufacturers. Network operators will not be required to...
Why farming needs 5G, and not just LoRaWAN and NB-IoT – an investor’s view, from NGP Capital
Certain functions of smart farming will not work on low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks, even while technologies like LoRaWAN and NB-IoT tend to support most smart agricultural technologies, as they exist today.
LTE and even 5G networks are required to provide total coverage of fields, in...
Smart city case study: How Calgary deployed its own LPWA network to build smart city apps (Reader Forum)
The internet of things (IoT) is a game-changer for enterprises and consumers, making every day operations more efficient for organizations and individuals.
As smart cities evolve, government agencies are prioritizing IoT initiatives, and deploying low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks to collect data, and using advanced...
NIB: Semtech offers free LoRaWAN training; Digital Colony buys small-cell firm iWireless; Soracom announces IoT funding
Semtech opens-up and makes-free its LoRaWAN Academy
Semtech, the Californian chip-maker that owns and licenses the LoRa technology, is offering free educational modules via its LoRaWAN Academy for students, engineers, developers, and enterprises developing LoRa-based IoT solutions.
The LoRaWAN Academy launched in late 2017 and initially...
LoRa Alliance drives LoRaWAN usage in utility meters with closer DLMS integration
The LoRa Alliance and the DLMS User Association (DLMS UA) have signed a liaison agreement to define a new DLMS communication profile for LPWAN technologies such as LoRaWAN.
The two organisations, representing the LoRaWAN community and the standardisation of DLMS for meter communications, respectively,...
Teracom, Loriot launch commercial IoT network in Denmark
Loriot said it aims to complete the deployment of 5-6 new IoT networks this year
Danish broadcaster and telecom firm Teracom, together with global internet of things provider Loriot, is launching a nationwide long-range IoT network in Denmark.
Loriot provides the management system of the LoraWAN-based...
Kerlink, IoT America target rural areas in the US with new IoT partnership
IoT America designs solutions for precision agriculture, livestock management and infrastructure monitoring
French internet of things (IoT) specialist Kerlink and Internet of Things America (IoT America), a U.S. company dedicated to deploying IoT solutions across rural America, have recently teamed up to enable the deployment of IoT...
LoRaWAN community boosted by $25-$60 million venture fund
Zurich-based Momenta Partners has launched a $25 million venture fund to foster startups and innovations in the low-power wide-area (LPWA) market, and specifically the LoRaWAN sector. The fund could stretch to $60 million, the company said.
Momenta Ventures makes early-stage investments in “connected industry” projects,...
IoT vendors strive for simplicity with NB-IoT developer kits, LoRaWAN box solutions
A number of pre-MWC announcements from variously-aligned IoT vendors, including Spanish and US IoT firms Libelium and Senet, have revealed a truth about the manic IoT sector and a sub-theme of this year’s summit: that the IoT market has gone unchecked, and its protagonists...
Total LoRa devices reach 80 million, making it ‘de facto’ IoT tech, says Semtech
The total installed base of LoRa enabled chips and nodes reach around 80 million units at the end of 2018, according to California based semiconductor company Semtech, which owns the LoRa technology and licenses the chips.
Semtech said the number of LoRa gateways is now...
‘No future Elon Musks in IoT’, ‘no future in IoT without LoRaWAN’ – team LoRa plots next moves
This week, 1,500 business types from every-sized enterprise in the burgeoning IoT space will descend on Amsterdam in The Netherlands to chat LoRaWAN, the low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking technology that saw 60 per cent growth last year.
The occasion is The Things Conference (January 31...
UK tech incubator sets up Industry 4.0 demo labs to show LoRa based IoT solutions
UK tech incubator Digital Catapult is sponsoring a pair of UK firms to set up as Industry 4.0 showcase labs for the rest of the UK manufacturing industry.
County Durham based fabrication and machining firm Dyer Engineering, and Hereford based superalloy manufacturer Special Metals Wiggin...
LoRaWAN 100-club claims 60% growth, tech ‘superiority’; stokes battle with Sigfox
The number of LoRaWAN network operators jumped by more than 60 per cent in 2018, according to the LoRa Alliance. It said its global operator count stands at more than 100, as of the end of December. These include operators of both private and...
Sigfox outlines ‘Zero-G’ strategy to underpin 5G/IoT ecosystem, secure global coverage
IoT networking company Sigfox has big plans for 2019. Every IoT company does, of course, but the French firm has set a target to secure 'global' coverage by setting up in China, India, and Russia, finally, and plugging three major gaps in its existing...
Senet teams up on LoRaWAN smart ID cards for college, corporate, hospital campuses
IoT company Senet is providing LoRaWAN connectivity for a new range of disposable and rechargeable ID cards for staff and students on college and university campuses. The smart LoRaWAN ID cards will be subsequently rolled out to corporate campuses, hospitals, elderly homes, and construction...
American Tower targets two million Brazilian LoRaWAN connections in 2019
American Tower’s LoRaWAN network in Brazil has passed 400,000 connected devices. The company has set target two million or more by the end of 2019, deployed for a range of IoT applications.
LoRa maker Semtech, whose protocol, technology and gateways is at the heart of...
NNNCo deploys IoT network for Australian cotton farmers
The company said the IoT network will cover some 3 million hectares across Australia
Australia’s National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo) and Goanna Ag announced the rollout of a publicly available LoRaWAN internet of things network for smart irrigation management solutions to Australian cotton growers.
The network...