In this second installment of a two-part series, we’ll explore how Sehaj Synergy Technologies Private Limited (SSTPL) and Tata Communications have successfully leveraged LoRaWAN® technology to implement smart metering applications across India. The following use cases highlight the benefits and impact of LoRaWAN, demonstrating its widespread adoption across various market segments, including commercial, enterprise, residential, and community applications.
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Part 1 – Smart Metering in India: Transforming Utilities with IoT
The adoption of smart meters in India is revolutionizing utility management, particularly in water and energy consumption. With increasing urbanization and the growing need for resource conservation, smart metering solutions provide real-time visibility, automated controls and data-driven decision-making capabilities. This transformation is particularly evident in large-scale commercial and residential projects, where efficient resource utilization is critical for sustainability and cost reduction.
The Growing Need for Smart Meters in India
In this first installment of a two-part series, we’ll explore how Enthu Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. and Ripple Metering have successfully leveraged LoRaWAN® technology to implement smart metering applications across India. The following use cases highlight the benefits and impact of LoRaWAN, demonstrating its widespread adoption across various market segments, including commercial, enterprise, residential, and community applications.
The Future of NTN LoRaWAN® IoT: Leveraging Satellites for Global Connectivity
Telemaco Melia, EchoStar Mobile; Jon Pearce, Lacuna Space; and Ozdemir Gumusay, Plan-S for the LoRa Alliance
Internet of things (IoT) is rapidly evolving with non-terrestrial (NTN) satellite technology quickly becoming a game changer because it can provide global connectivity solutions in areas that have previously been underserved, especially in remote locations. A recent LoRa Alliance® webinar brought together three pioneering companies: EchoStar Mobile, Lacuna Space and Plan-S, to delve into the current landscape and future opportunities for NTN LoRaWAN IoT services.
LoRaWAN holds a leadership position amongst low-power wide area networking (LPWAN) technologies because these three companies are already providing commercial satellite connectivity leveraging low Earth orbit (LEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO) and geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) satellites. Their approaches, taking advantage of the capabilities and benefits of the LoRaWAN standard, are enabling low-cost commercial IoT services, addressing various challenges and unlocking future opportunities.
Counterpoint Conversations: LoRaWAN – Connecting the World with Long-Range, Low-Power IoT
In the latest Counterpoint Conversations, we explore the innovations and strategies propelling the LoRa Alliance and its flagship LoRaWAN technology to the forefront of IoT solutions. Alper Yegin, the recently appointed CEO of the LoRa Alliance, shared his vision for the organization, and highlighted the transformative potential in a rapidly evolving tech landscape, in conversation with Mohit Agrawal, a Research Director at Counterpoint.
The State of LoRaWAN in 2025 | LoRa Alliance’s Alper Yegin
In this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Alper Yegin, President and CEO of the LoRa Alliance, joins Ryan Chacon to discuss the state of LoRaWAN in 2025. The conversation covers LoRaWAN adoption, LoRaWAN use cases, the role of satellite IoT, edge, and AI, LoRaWAN certification and interoperability, misconceptions about LoRaWAN, and the future of LoRaWAN.
Embedded Executive: The Evolution of a Wireless Standard, LoRa Alliance
At the LoRa Alliance, there’s a new sheriff in town. Alper Yegin is the group’s new CEO.
LoRaWAN, which stands for long range wide-area network, allows transmissions to occur at very low power, sometimes lasting many years without changing batteries.
Yegin believes the LoRaWAN spec is quite solid, but there’s always room for it to evolve. He feels that one of his primary tasks is increasing awareness and education around the standard. This can (and will) happen by increasing partnerships with complementary organizations, having more activity at industry events, and holding local meetups.
In this week’s Embedded Executives podcast, we also discuss how the spec competes in a crowded space and what the future holds.
LoRa Alliance’s Road to the Global Adoption of LoRaWAN Technology
In an exclusive interview with Telecom Review, Alper Yegin, Chief Executive Officer at LoRa Alliance, discusses the organization’s initiatives to achieve the global adoption of LoRaWAN technology, its approach to balancing sustainability with IoT solutions, and the significance of strategic collaborations in the technology industry.
‘LoRaWAN is like Lego’, and ready to make IoT ‘massive’ – LoRa Alliance on 2025
With several shakeups over the past few years, the state of the low power wide area networking (LPWAN) market is not always clear. However, the reality is that all the pieces are in place, and market demand paired with continuous technology evolution is fueling a rapid shift to massive IoT. LoRaWAN remains the clear choice for IoT projects where cost-effective, low-bandwidth, low-power connectivity is needed – which is approximately 90 percent of the total IoT market. Which is what the LoRa Alliance would say, of course; but there are good reasons to say it, as well.
Wienke Giezeman Shares Vision on Low Power Networks
— Barcelona. During the recent IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC), Wienke Giezeman, CEO and co-founder of The Things Industries, a leading figure in the low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) space, offered a refreshing perspective on the current state of the market.
The Things Industries, with over 1,000 client companies globally, has seen a 100% year-on-year growth in deployments and a 60% year-on-year growth in revenue. This success hinges on the company’s customers’ profitability.
During the conference, EE Times had the opportunity to talk to Giezeman. He acknowledged how the initial hype surrounding IoT led to inflated expectations. He pointed to several companies scaling back or exiting the market entirely. However, he emphasized a positive underlying trend: steady growth in practical applications. This growth is driven by solutions that solve real problems and reduce operational costs.
Read more: https://www.eetimes.com/wienke-giezeman-shares-vision-on-low-power-networks/
IoT Unplugged: S2:E3 – Examining LoRaWAN’s growth and future in IoT connectivity
In this episode of IoT Insider, Editor Kristian McCann sits down with Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance, to discuss the instrumental role of LoRaWAN in the advancement of IoT across various sectors; its unique capabilities, its critical function in surmounting global challenges, and its substantial impact on smart cities and beyond.
Read more and listen here: https://www.iotinsider.com/podcast/iot-unplugged-s2e3-examining-lorawans-growth-and-future-in-iot-connectivity/
LoRaWAN No Longer Just for Early Adopters
By Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman, LoRa Alliance
2022 was truly a transformative year for IoT, yielding major shifts in perception and execution, and surpassing milestones of massive deployments. At the LoRa Alliance, our experience was that people moved away from asking about “what” LoRaWAN is, to asking about “how” to deploy, how to find devices, how to partner, how to achieve ROI. IoT clearly has moved into a new stage of mass adoption.
The execution and results of LoRaWAN proof of concepts (PoCs) provide evidence of this market shift. Previously, deploying a PoC took an average of 12 to 18 months. Now, it averages about 6 months. Even better, the ROI on LoRaWAN projects is usually higher than what was originally estimated. Organizations that complete these PoCs quickly realize that the fastest way to compound value is to add new use cases and optimize their operations to benefit from the efficiencies that the solution is providing.
Read more: https://www10.edacafe.com/blogs/guest/2023/01/04/lorawan-no-longer-just-for-early-adopters/
Le réseau LoRaWAN plébiscité dans le smart metering en France selon Tactis
Le smart metering continue d’interroger en interne au sein des collectivités. “Qu’est-ce qui se fait sur le marché en matière de smart metering, quelle technologie choisir pour déployer de la télérelève et en obtenir le meilleur rendement, quel rôle la collectivité doit-elle jouer dans ces projets, comment valoriser les réseaux IoT au-delà de l’usage du télérelevé. Voilà les principales questions que se posent les élus”, constate Guillaume Soulères, directeur de projet chez Tactis. Pour y répondre, le cabinet d’études a réalisé une étude comparative dans le secteur de l’eau, présentée ce mardi 21 novembre à l’occasion du Salon des maires et des collectivités locales, se déroulant du 21 au 23 novembre à Paris.
LoRa Alliance: leading the IoT revolution with the LoRaWAN standard for limitless connectivity
The Internet of Things is experiencing a pivotal moment today, and to drive the mass deployment of low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs), standards and a robust and growing ecosystem are critical. These LPWANs are expected to connect 50% of the expected IoT volumes.
Since its founding in March 2015, the LoRa Alliance® has become the fastest growing and most influential technology alliance with more than 500 members supporting the LoRaWAN® open standard for LPWAN networks. The organization has taken a leading role in standardizing these networks through the LoRaWAN® specification. In addition, it has created a certification and conformance program to ensure interoperability. This allows LoRaWAN® end devices to be deployed in multiple networks and to roam from one network to another regardless of network infrastructure or carrier.
Read more: https://internetdelascosas.xyz/articulo.php?id=3527
LoRaWAN: Powering IoT Forward
LoRa (Long Range) and LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) technologies are at the forefront of the IoT revolution. They are delivering the connectivity needed for IOT deployments and are creating a world where everyday objects and industrial machines can connect and communicate over long distances with minimal power consumption. The impact is far-reaching, with the potential to drastically improve efficiency, safety, and sustainability in nearly every business sector.
Networking a Smart City: Using Fit-for-Purpose Tech
Multiple market forecasts project smart cities will grow at a compounded annual growth rate of as much as 25% between now and 2030, making cities a very attractive market for internet of things (IoT) solution providers. However, cities present various unique challenges for vendors seeking to enter this market.
Cities are highly complex deployments for any technology, and IoT networking is no exception. Let’s examine the challenges to understand why selecting a networking technology designed to meet a city’s needs is vital.
Read more: https://www.eetimes.com/networking-a-smart-city-using-fit-for-purpose-tech/
Internet of Things doesn’t have to be overwhelming
Internet of Things (IoT) represents a huge set of products, technologies and use cases. Knowing how to start is a challenge that can seem insurmountable. It’s useful to examine smart cities, smart buildings and smart utilities as these markets represent a diverse set of applications but face many of the same challenges.
In cities, buildings and utilities, physical environment can create the biggest challenge: any network that connects sensors to the internet must pass through steel, concrete and even underground in the case of utilities. These deployments are known to be difficult for many networking technologies, so it is important to choose a technology that can meet the needs of your environment. Another consideration is how much data you need to transmit. This is critical because it has a significant impact on project cost. Sensor readings are very small data transmissions, cost-effective, low power wide area networking (LPWAN) is the right approach. Power is another consideration since most end-devices need to be deployed for many years, using networking technologies that can run on very low power reduces costs (fewer batteries are needed) and maintenance requirements to change the batteries.
Read more: https://telconews.co.uk/story/internet-of-things-doesn-t-have-to-be-overwhelming
Embedded Executives Podcast Interview: Donna Moore, Chairwoman, LoRa Alliance
The LoRa Alliance is an open, nonprofit association that represents the LoRaWAN standard. LoRaWAN is growing quickly and expanding into a host of both new geographies and new applications. To see where it’s headed and why it’s been so successful, I spoke to the Alliance’s Chairwoman, Donna Moore, on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.
LISTEN HERE: https://embeddedcomputing.com/application/networking-5g/embedded-executive-donna-moore-chairwoman-lora-alliance
Why LoRaWAN is the Right Choice for Smart Cities
I find myself having recurrent conversations with city managers and innovators. We discuss the juxtaposition of a city wanting to become smarter—and provide better outcomes for its community—and the challenges of doing so with a limited budget and an unclear path on how to progress. Cities have massive data opportunities. So, to make their cities smart, leaders need to be able to gather data in a usable form to gain insights and make decisions.
Why Smart Cities?
What is driving cities to want to become “smart”? Often, it is the pressure of increasing urbanization and growing population density. Urbanization brings a range of challenges and opportunities. On the opportunity side for cities, increasing urbanization allows for scaled use of resources, job growth, and increased economic activity. IoT can recognize and alleviate urban growth challenges. A city becomes smarter when it gathers, organizes, and manages data in a way that creates insights and leads to better decisions.
Read more: https://www.iotforall.com/why-lorawan-is-the-right-choice-for-smart-cities
Cloud-based positioning meets LoRaWAN®
u-blox cloud-based positioning solutions bring distinct advantages to power constrained applications using LoRaWAN® technology.
On a quest for ultra-low-power IoT applications, many IoT project designers choose LoRaWAN network technology. However, because LoRaWAN provides low bandwidth, there is often a trade-off required. A vast portion of IoT devices need meter-level location accuracy to do their job, prompting the design quest to
expand to GNSS (global navigation satellite system) solutions. This article describes how the u-blox cloud-based positioning solution makes a perfect match for use with LoRaWAN, allowing for best-in-class synergy between GNSS technology and long-range wireless connectivity for power constrained IoT devices. The combination provides a real-world developer platform from our customer Move-X where cloud-based positioning meets LoRaWAN.
Read more: http://hz1.37b.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/LoRaWAN-M10-CloudLocate-article-1.pdf
Council receive £60,000 in funding to grow wireless infrastructure
CONWY County Borough Council has been awarded £60,000 to grow and enhance the area’s community digital wireless infrastructure.
The funding from Welsh Government will be used to extend the LoRaWAN network that the Council has been creating across the county and will also provide free Wi-Fi in Llandudno town centre.
Using various funding opportunities over recent years, the Council has established a digital and communications wireless infrastructure, which is free to use for schools, business, the public sector and the public.
Coyote Secure combines LoRa and Sigfox to find stolen vehicles
By partnering with Orange Business Services to add the LoRaWAN network to the Coyote Secure service, initially with the Sigfox network, Coyote is engaged in large-scale technology convergence.
With Coyote Secure, its tracer can find 91% of its customers’ stolen vehicles in less than 48 hours. In order to further improve the performance of its offer and reach almost 100%, the French company, known for its driver assistance service, has chosen to integrate the LoRaWAN network of the operator Orange into Coyote Secure, which has been in use since 2018 with the Sigfox network. “We are technology agnostic, our goal is to offer our customers the best and for this we chose the convergence of connectivity,” confirms Jérôme Arnac, Marketing Director at Coyote.
Read more: https://techinkers.com/coyote-secure-combines-lora-and-sigfox-to-find-stolen-vehicles/
Future of Massive IoT and the Role of LoRaWAN
With billions of IoT sensors sending small data volumes in massive numbers, the demand for cost-efficient and secure connectivity is critical. Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) is a wireless technology that best meets the needs of non-mission-critical applications for its extended coverage, low transmission rate, long battery life, and cost savings in operations.
LoRaWAN® is the LPWAN standard that grew the most in recent years and is expected to scale even faster in the post-pandemic scenario as network operators increase coverage in relevant countries and the ecosystem matures in different verticals. Through its groundbreaking, secure, and cost-efficient wireless connectivity, the LoRa Alliance® enables simplified management, ease of deployment, and scalability. Its flexibility sparks business opportunities and a fast return on investment.
Learn more: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/5567/549664
Today’s Needs and Tomorrow’s Demands: Uncovering Enterprise Priorities for IoT Adoption
In the past decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved at an unprecedented pace. Enterprises of all shapes, sizes, and industries benefit from IoT solutions that drive productivity, enhance operations, promote cost savings, and automate workflows with intelligent, data-backed capabilities.
To analyze and explore the technology preferences, requirements, and challenges respective to IoT deployments, Omdia surveyed 200+ decision makers across North America. While each industry has varying needs, goals, and desires, survey data showcases universal demands for three key components, among other compelling themes.
Addressing Metering Infrastructure with LoRaWAN
In the U.S., a water main breaks every two minutes, leaking enough water each day to fill 9,000 swimming pools, according to recent ASCE data. As critical infrastructure continues to age like it has in the water industry, utilities and municipalities must find practical solutions to rebuild and augment these systems with modern materials and technologies. In fact, the renewal and replacement of aging water and wastewater infrastructure has been the top challenge facing water utilities in the United States for the last seven years, according to the American Water Works Association (AWWA) State of the Water Industry Report. An example of innovation directly addressing today’s aging water infrastructure is the use of Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) such as LoRaWAN and low-cost sensors to support new advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).
Read more: https://www.iotforall.com/metering-infrastructure-and-lorawan
Donna Moore | Passionate about Technology as an Enabler
Spotlight on Leading Women in Telecoms | TelecomDrive.com
Having about two decades of experience, Donna Moore started her career as a nurse and then moved over to the business side of healthcare and then moved towards the technology industry. Today, she is highly regarded in the industry as a great catalyst and as an enabler for future-proof technology adoption. Her current work at LoRa Alliance is bringing to life new-age innovations with LoRaWAN use cases.
As part of Disruptive Telecoms July 2022 cover story on ‘Leading Women in Telecoms’ – Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance speaks with Zia Askari from TelecomDrive.com about her professional and personal journey.
Read more: https://telecomdrive.com/donna-moore-passionate-about-technology-as-an-enabler/
The future of decentralized wireless – opportunities from 3G shutdowns and 5G alternatives
The story of how blockchain is revolutionizing IoT, by democratizing and expanding low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking and creating incremental opportunities for forward-looking enterprises, has been told already. We know the IoT market has failed so far to live up to the hype (50 billion connected devices by 2020, anyone?), and that new business gains and sustainability impacts have been hard fought and hard won.
And we know that new wireless network models like Helium’s – expanding a crowd-sourced, self-funding global LoRaWAN infrastructure, where data transactions are immutable in blockchain ledgers – might just make the difference. Helium’s self-styled ‘The People’s Network’, is the fastest and largest growing IoT network in the world; in just two years, it has expanded to over 800,000 hotspots in around 52,000 cities in 169 countries.