The LoRa Alliance has announced its technical roadmap outlining a three year plan for how it will support new LoRaWAN application integrations, extensions, and other enhancements.

The LoRa Alliance is an open, nonprofit association that develops and promotes the LoRaWAN standard and product certification program. With the highest accessibility, most robust ecosystem, and widest global adoption of any LPWAN technology, LoRaWAN has quickly become a fourth pillar of wireless connectivity, complementing cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.

Fremont, Calif. – June 1, 2026 – The LoRa Alliance, the open, non-profit organization defining, evolving and promoting the LoRaWAN® Standard, has announced its technical roadmap outlining near-term plans for how it will support new LoRaWAN application integrations, extensions, and other enhancements.

With the highest accessibility, most robust ecosystem, and widest global adoption of any LPWAN technology, LoRaWAN has quickly become a fourth pillar of wireless connectivity, complementing cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. The LoRa Alliance’s technical roadmap is designed to leverage these strengths and build upon them with the latest specifications that will accelerate new application domain integrations, make deployments more plug-and-play, and accelerate LoRaWAN coverage extensions.

“Our new roadmap aims to support the next generation of IoT devices and applications due to come online in the next few years by leveraging and augmenting what has made LoRaWAN an essential communications technology,” said Alper Yegin, CEO of the LoRa Alliance. “For LoRaWAN adoption growth to continue, we need to expand integrations with existing IoT application domains and make things easier for users by enabling their implementations to become truly plug-and-play. In addition, new coverage extensions will help make LoRaWAN ubiquitously available.”

Application Integrations

This year marks the start of the roadmap’s next phase, focused on expanding LoRaWAN’s capabilities and ecosystem. These include the previously announced effort to develop a mapping structure between LoRaWAN and the Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA), a smart industry applications standard. Another upcoming application integration will allow IoT-connected water meters using the North American UI-1203 protocol to more seamlessly leverage LoRaWAN.

Coming in 2028, a Standard Application Data Format will standardize application codec payload structure, making it easier for any device to work with any application platform without custom integration.

Plug-and-Play Enhancements

The LoRa Alliance’s new roadmap also includes plug-and-play enhancements to be addressed this year and next.

In 2026, these enhancements will include new features for supporting migration of IoT-connected devices from one network to another. Device migration procedures represent an important aspect of device lifecycle management, and these features will make it easier for a fleet of devices to move among different LoRaWAN networks. Also, an End-Device Capabilities Discovery feature will improve on manual provisioning of LoRaWAN devices by enabling a network server to download device capabilities from external servers.

In 2027, newer plug-and-play enhancements will be released by the LoRa Alliance as the roadmap progress continues. These include Zero-Touch Device Onboarding Enhancements, which aims to make end-device onboarding get closer to a truly plug-and-play experience. Also arriving next year will be DNS-based Network Infra Discovery, which will reduce the need for pre-configuring core network infrastructure elements, such as network servers, application servers, and join servers to enable interconnections among them.

In addition, the LoRa Alliance plans to release two new network server interface features in 2027. The first will be the Network Server to Gateway Interface, which will seek to standardize the API between the network servers and the LoRaWAN gateways, so any gateway can be used with any network server without requiring additional software development or integration. The second will be the Network Server to Application Server Interface, which will be designed to standardize the API between the network servers and the application servers. This will mean that any application server can be used with any network server without requiring additional software development or integration.

Accelerating Coverage Extensions

Finally, within the new technical roadmap the LoRa Alliance also is stepping up the release of new extensions that will help broaden and deepen LoRaWAN’s reach in the next few years.

In 2026, a new extension called Walk-By/Drive-By Reading will enable LoRaWAN devices to efficiently connect to mobile base stations that might be mounted on vehicles, flown on drones, or carried by hand. This extension will be especially valuable in cases where devices fall outside the coverage of fixed network infrastructure.

Also in 2026, an extension called Satellite Discovery Enhancements will standardize how fully commercial-off-the-shelf end-devices discover LoRaWAN satellite constellations, building on the existing capability for LoRaWAN end-devices to use LEO and GEO satellites.

In 2027, the LoRa Alliance will add a Crypto Agility extension to its end-to-end security mechanism, introducing the ability to support any future crypto suite between the end-devices, the network servers, and the application servers.

Also in 2027, the LoRa Alliance will build on its existing LoRaWAN end-device certification program with a LoRaWAN Gateway Certification program, increasing the group’s ability to accelerate the advancement of LoRaWAN as an essential global connectivity technology.

Finally, 2028 will witness the arrival of a new Network Analytics API, which will standardize how traffic patterns can be observed and analyzed for network management purposes.

About the LoRA Alliance

The LoRa Alliance® is an open, nonprofit association that develops and promotes the LoRaWAN standard and product certification program. With the highest accessibility, most robust ecosystem, and widest global adoption of any LPWAN technology, LoRaWAN is the leading IoT LPWAN standard and an essential fourth pillar of global wireless connectivity, complementing cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. The LoRa Alliance has become one of the largest and fastest-growing alliances in the technology sector since its inception in 2015, with more than 300 members. More information: http://lora-alliance.org

 

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A few months back, when all eyes were on Davos, Switzerland, and the outcomes from the World Economic Forum meetings on global topics of high interest, this article came out covering what CEOs (were) talking about from Arjun Kharpal, CNBC’s senior technology correspondent.

One particular section caught my eye that was unexpected:

“Expect physical AI to be on the tech buzzword list this year. The term refers to applications where AI takes on a physical form, from robotics to driverless cars. My own experience at Davos highlighted just how real this push has become: one evening at dinner, a robot was sitting right at the table.

• LoRa Alliance CEO Alper Yegin says LoRaWAN can bridge AI to the physical world via massive, low-power sensor networks
• The alliance highlights three AI layers: edge (on-device processing), core (network automation) and apps (smart cities, asset tracking)
• They’re positioning LoRaWAN as a complement to cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth – not a competitor

It might sound strange that a low-power IoT technology like LoRaWAN is angling to become the perfect partner for power-hungry AI, but that’s exactly how the LoRaWAN Alliance is framing it. 

It has been a long, hard road, but LoRaWAN is finally standing tall as a protocol of choice for smart buildings, smart cities and utilities. 

At the start of this year, LoRa Alliance CEO Alper Yegin wrote that LoRaWAN was like Lego, with use cases ‘limited only by the imagination.’  With global adoption and robust standards now in place, ABI Research’s prediction that LoRa would be the leading non-cellular LPWA (low power wide area) network technology by 2026 is starting to bear fruit. Yet it is vitally important for businesses to get the big deployment decisions right.

Steven Drewett is CEO of Concept13, which combines consultancy with being Europe’s leading supplier of LoRaWAN hardware. Having ‘been around since the outset’, as Drewett puts it, there is a wealth of experience on which to draw. Drewett estimates that in around 30% of cases, he advises potential clients that LoRaWAN isn’t the right fit for their project; but for those which are, his goal is to make the most of it. The first question one multi-million-pound company asked was whether LoRaWAN was the right fit. It evidently was: they are now deploying to more than 90 countries.

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.

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.

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.

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.

— 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/

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 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.

https://www.journaldunet.com/iot/1526387-le-reseau-lorawan-s-impose-dans-le-smart-metering-en-france-selon-une-etude-de-tactis/

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

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.

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