6 LoRa Alliance members will be showcasing LoRaWAN enabled solutions and devices for water metering, gas metering, smart energy, and smart utilities in the LoRa Alliance stand!
Come check out our featured technical demos:
Actility‘s demo highlights LoRaWAN Relay, FUOTA, and DLMS/COSEM integration for smart utilities. LoRaWAN Relay extends network coverage for smart meters in remote areas, ensuring continuous communication. FUOTA allows seamless, secure firmware updates over the air, enhancing meter management. DLMS/COSEM over LoRaWAN ensures industry-standard data communication and interoperability for a well-established utility standard. Together, these advanced features bring the power of LoRaWAN to the utility market.
With Semtech’s “LR1121 Modem-E” wireless platform, dual connectivity solutions for LoRaWAN and W-Mbus can be more easily created to complement existing W-Mbus deployments for smart water or gas metering. This offers a smooth migration towards LoRaWAN or supports two different methods of data collection with same hardware using LoRaWAN connectivity where coverage is available, otherwise using W-Mbus’ Walk-By/Drive-by method.
Other demos you will find in our booth:
Alliot Technologies will share how it supports its partners to optimize their energy use, from water metering, to monitoring electric consumption and overall indoor environmental conditions, thereby helping facility managers, estate managers and blue-chip companies pave the way to more sustainable initiatives.
Netmore will showcase its Yorkshire Water deployment, in which LoRaWAN and smart meter data analysis can reduce water wastage by almost 40%, driving savings of energy and operation costs. Predictive analytics identified inefficiencies in pump usage, leading to a shift to more efficient energy consumption schedules and savings on energy costs. These benefits align with broader sustainability goals, supporting both water conservation and energy reduction.
ResIOT will share three use cases: the first is its LoRaWAN solution to measure energy consumption in factories during production, which is the first step towards reducing CO2 and energy use. Its second showcases solar power monitoring that is used to ensure all modules are up and running as expected, allowing for rapid repair in case of failure before significant loss of generated power can occur. The third will show how its technology is being used by Italian utilities to monitor water consumption.
TEKTELIC will show how it supports the digitization of utilities through efficient smart energy management to address energy waste, unplanned maintenance, and faulty equipment. Its customer DS Energy offers a low-cost LoRaWAN energy management solution that typically leads to consumption savings of 10-20% in operational locations. In one example, restructuring operations of a single tool drove a decrease in power usage of 90,000 kWh per year, resulting in approximately 38,000 euros of annual savings.
Semtech will share customer PVH’s Solar Tracking System which is deployed in 650 projects globally and uses LoRaWAN to improve reliability in renewable energy production through individual management of solar panels. The solution ensures optimal panel alignment with the sun throughout the day, while rapidly adjusting to high winds by automatically shifting panels to a safe stow position.
The LCTT allows full testing and regression testing of your device at your location, saving time and money by allowing you to debug and finalize your designs prior to starting the formal certification process with an Authorized Test Lab. The LCTT is the most comprehensive test tool for LoRaWAN end nodes available.
Each member company receives one free LCTT license.
LoRaWAN Certification
LoRaWAN certification is crucial as it ensures that your device complies with industry standards, providing customers with confidence in its performance and reliability. LoRaWAN certification not only helps to ensure device interoperability within the vast LoRaWAN ecosystem while assuring customers of its security and operational efficiency. By choosing certified devices, customers can minimize integration challenges and reduce the risks associated with network deployment. Ultimately, certification adds value by fostering trust and promoting a seamless user experience.
Regulatory Support
The LoRa Alliance offers unparalleled regulatory support to its members, actively engaging with global regulatory bodies to shape favorable spectrum policies and industry standards. As a member, you’ll benefit from the alliance’s expertise in navigating complex global and local regulations, ensuring compliance and accelerating your market entry. Joining the LoRa Alliance empowers your business to influence regulatory decisions and stay ahead of evolving standards, giving you a critical edge in deploying LoRaWAN solutions worldwide.
NetIDs
NetID for unique identification of your networks and device addresses.
Roaming (a.k.a., network collaboration) among public, private, and community networks is an essential capability of LoRaWAN with unique features, which helps both coverage extension and coverage densification, reduce CAPEX, increase network capacity, and extend end-device battery life (see FAQ, webinar). Networks need to have a globally unique identifier (NetID) assigned by the LoRa Alliance in order to enable their devices to roam out to other networks (see current assignments).
VendorIDs
VendorID for unique identification of your products, ability to generate standard device-identifying QR codes (using own VendorID).
VendorID is assigned to each member, which is an essential part of the standard device-identification QR code (spec, webinar), and GW identification in the upcoming NS-GW interface spec.
Current Working Groups & Task Forces
As a member of the LoRa Alliance, your organization can engage in any of our working groups dedicated to enhancing and advancing the LoRaWAN standard while fostering global market awareness and adoption. Below is a list of our current working groups and task forces for your reference.