
First electricity meters supporting DLMS over LoRaWAN start to rollout
Chinese manufacturer Wasion and French IoT software provider Acklio have introduced an electricity meter supporting Device Language Message Specification (DLMS) communications over low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking protocol LoRaWAN. The release …

Semtech and MXC connect LoRaWAN into blockchain-based smart-city IoT
Semtech Corporation is working with Germany-based IoT blockchain group MXC Foundation to deploy open networks using LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol. The deal will see MXC users bring LoRaWAN …

Once upon a time in the (New) West – how LoRa is looking to strike gold on the IoT trail
Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘IoT is not about LoRa vs Sigfox anymore; it is about Design Process X vs Design Process Y’. Click here …

DT ties-up on dual-mode LTE-M/LoRaWAN, as LoRa 2.4GHz catches sail
Deutsche Telekom is working with The Things Industries (TTI), the industrial solutions division of LoRaWAN network provider The Things Network (TTN), to combine licensed and unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies …

Covid-19 vaccine shipments – a defining public proof-point for IoT tracking?
If there was ever a critical proof-point for the efficacy of IoT technologies, then this is it: the coordinated global shipment of coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines. This is the moment, arguably, …

Semtech on 2021: Availability and simplicity to drive critical mass for LPWAN systems
One thing that became abundantly clear during the Covid-19 pandemic was the importance of the supply chain throughout the enterprise. From the factory floor through distribution to retail stores and …

Amazon and Semtech integrate LoRaWAN into AWS IoT core network server
The LoRaWAN low-power wide-area IoT connectivity protocol has been integrated into Amazon Web Services’ cloud-based IoT core network server. The news comes as the LoRaWAN community pushes Amazon to re-think …

Fractus Antennas on 2021: After the gold rush (post-hype, when the real work begins)
Big brands will start to enter the IoT space more aggressively in 2021 with full end-to-end solutions, buying up successful companies either to avoid competition or else to complete their …

LoRa Alliance, Semtech in talks with Amazon to switch Sidewalk over to LoRaWAN
The LoRa Alliance, the technical and marketing group promoting the LoRaWAN protocol for wide-area network (WAN) communications, is looking at ways to tweak the LoRaWAN specification for Amazon, so the …

Amazon picks LoRa for smart-home telco platform – plus Nordic, Silicon Labs, Tile
Amazon has selected LoRa for its new Sidewalk wireless networking platform, running in 900 MHz spectrum, according to Semtech. Camarillo-based Semtech hailed its technology’s move into the consumer space. At …