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IQnexus and Semtech Enhance Building Automation With New Indoor Air & Environment Quality Sensors Utilizing LoRaWAN®

Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced its collaboration with IQnexus, provider of Internet of Things (IoT) end to end solutions and integration into building automation, for its Indoor Air (IAQ) & Environment Quality (IEQ) sensors integrated with Semtech’s LoRa® devices that run via the LoRaWAN® standard for building automation systems. The IAQ sensors from IQnexus feature no ongoing Cloud fees, reduce carbon dioxide emissions and are compliant with the WELL and RESET® standards – key benchmark standards for building owners. The use and integration of LoRa and LoRaWAN into the IAQ sensors seamlessly integrate the sensors into existing building infrastructures due to its easy to deploy and cost-effectiveness capabilities.

 

Read more: https://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-iqnexus-semtech-enhance-building-automation-with-new-indoor-/2021/08/19/9434070.htm

The Voice of IoT – Donna Moore

The Intersection of People, Planet and Profit.

My personal passion for IoT stems from my background in holistic health care and running a number of different businesses. Bringing that drive for health and safety into the tech world during this time of mass transformation and having the opportunity to create positive change on so many fronts, is nothing short of amazing. In my role leading the LoRa Alliance®, I have the pleasure of working with a global organization of the best and brightest innovators, who are collaborating to make this transformation a reality. We have a unique opportunity to deliver some of the most significant changes in our lives in ways that truly have a positive impact on people, the planet and profits. I’m honored to be a part of leading this transformation, the scale of which we will never see again in our lifetime.
 
 

Semtech and eLichens Prevent Gas Leak Accidents in Cities With New Sensor Utilizing LoRaWAN®

CAMARILLO, Calif., July 27, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced its collaboration with eLichens, designer of avolta-CH4, a new connected gas leak detector running on the LoRaWAN® standard. Based on eLichens patented gas sensing technology, avolta is able to detect natural gas (methane) leaks with ultra-selectiveness, has no drift over time and has been approved by research gas laboratories.

 

Read More: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/semtech-elichens-prevent-gas-leak-120200414.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADc-8iqiQbzkRp6EMri2sLsTEcGV27z0Wh7wBiAX9KoYe8ArP1Xrv8D1TwcOgf9nkqFtKreSk1PTeXLgRzLl7E0eyGK13wXNRikB3nNgbeRJA1anrjAM_GeXjF7KhN02INUvGyZUnm7JreU_ePDQweAaOcxew5S_QcYRiofaewp5

LoRa Alliance® Expands Benefits to Support Members’ Business Goals

During the first few months of this year, the LoRa Alliance® undertook a comprehensive review of our member benefits, benchmarking against similar organizations, to ensure that we are maximizing the value we provide to our members. As a result, we have updated and expanded our membership benefits to deliver increased business value to current and future members.

Specifically, we are actively working to provide more business opportunities to members to help them grow their business revenue related to the LoRaWAN® standard. At the same time, we pledge to our members that this is just the beginning! We will continually assess and evaluate the benefits we provide and continue to add to them to further strengthen the value of membership.

A related goal of expanding our benefits is to further diversify our extensive membership. To support this goal, we are introducing benefits that are designed to provide value to companies like systems integrators, business infrastructure providers, and even end-users of LoRaWAN–those who use LoRaWAN for their business operations or are creating new revenue streams.    

As we evaluated our member benefits, we focused on adding and strengthening ones that increase opportunities to grow revenue. The new benefits announced for 2021 include the following table below. 

Grow your business by joining the fastest-growing membership in the technology sector. Join today!    

 

The benefits of membership extend far beyond these new additions. The marketing benefits are particularly strong, allowing members to significantly expand the market reach of products and services––with a high return on investment. Some of these include product and services promotion, lead generation, low- or no-cost ways to join horizontal and vertical events, speaking opportunities, and access to the LoRa Alliance’s strong member ecosystem, among many others.

“As we assessed our existing membership benefits, we realized we needed to ensure that providing value to our members was at the core of our offering,” said Derek Wallace, Vice President of Marketing for the LoRa Alliance. “We also wanted to ensure that our membership benefits offer tangible ways for members to grow their LoRaWAN business. This combination of benefit value and potential business growth more than offsets the cost of LoRa Alliance membership. Our goal is that when companies consider joining the LoRa Alliance, the decision to join is a logical and easy choice to make because of the value we offer.”

Some of the value realized by LoRa Alliance members includes:

  • Expanded LoRaWAN business opportunities and revenue growth
  • Accelerated time-to-market and market expansion
  • Knowledge sharing with the world’s premier companies developing and using LoRaWAN®
  • Turbocharged LoRaWAN® marketing activities and reach
  • Acquired new skillsets and career development
  • Free access to the LoRa Alliance’s LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT) pre-certification testing tool
  • Extra regulatory support
  • Helping to determine the future of LoRaWAN by participating in certification, regional parameters, or roadmap development discussions
  • Determining where and how to increase awareness and adoption of LoRaWAN (e.g., vertical markets)
  • Driving country- or region-specific marketing efforts to target messaging locally

Here’s a look at what some of our members have to say about what they’ve achieved as members of the LoRa Alliance:

“Being a member of the LoRa Alliance® has allowed SenRa to rapidly grow our partnership ecosystem and increase business opportunities. The LoRa Alliance membership opened up possibilities that we could not have imagined and the more we contribute the more we succeed. We are grateful to be a member of such an amazing organization.”

––Ali Hosseini, CEO & Founder of SenRa

“As a member, we were able to access experts in complementing our own skill sets. Those complementary strengths allowed us to expand into new markets, like pest control and global food and facilities customer service, by combining our software with LoRaWAN sensors and other hardware.”

––Charles Paumelle, Microshare

“The LoRa Alliance has been instrumental in bringing together a diverse group of global ecosystem participants to accomplish a common goal. By creating an open LoRaWAN standard, with a constant stream of innovation in the technology, the LoRa Alliance has helped Senet and its customers and partners achieve the vision of instrumenting the physical world for the common good. In the process, we are also solving real-world problems for businesses at scale and delivering real value.”

––Bruce Chatterley, CEO at Senet

“Being a member of the LoRa Alliance has allowed Webee to collaborate and build a strong ecosystem of leading IoT companies helping its members create solutions that effectively tackle the most urgent challenges in the IoT industry. The working groups give us the possibility to exchange ideas and experiences in agriculture, manufacturing, oil & gas, and IIoT; which are some of the main verticals that we are working with. Participating in webinars and white papers not only allows our brand to be known but also helps us continue to engage with these organizations in a collaborative way. The true spirit of collaboration of this dynamic LoRa Alliance ecosystem and the marketing benefits the alliance provides has allowed us to grow in an ecosystem unleashing growth globally.”

––Lucas Funes, CEO & Founder at Webee

“Here at CalChip Connect, we’re all about partnerships and view our partners as customers. We have found that being a member of the LoRa Alliance has enabled us to form strong partnerships and leverage our expertise to help our partners get to market quicker and help them scale and deploy into their respective markets. By bringing all the partners together, we can then connect the dots and combine expertise to really make our end customers, who are deploying LoRaWAN solutions, able to have an incredible experience. This is where we see great value in being part of the LoRa Alliance and being a part of this partner eco-system.” 

––TJ Rancour, President, CalChip Connect

“Lacuna Space joined the LoRa Alliance in 2018 because it helps us advance our vision of a connected world using LoRaWAN networks on the ground and everywhere, from space. 

By participating in working groups and task forces your business gains valuable perspectives on technical, commercial and operational matters which would take so much more time to solve if you were to work alone.

As a Business Developer the benefits most valuable to me are the personal and professional connections that I have made by being an active member.  Especially during a year when establishing quality connections through events became more challenging, being able to instantly identify a certified product or distribution partner in every part of the world, made a huge difference.

I’d encourage everyone in the IoT ecosystem to try out the LoRa Alliance membership for a great set of benefits including opportunities to promote your products and services at affordable cost.”

–– Maria Kalama, Business Development Director at Lacuna Space

It’s easy to see why membership pays for itself! Explore all of the benefits of membership or apply now on our website. Be sure to connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook for the best overview of the LoRaWAN ecosystem, news, technology & progress, hottest tips, education, and more!

 

2021 Women of Technology: Rising after the Storm

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped our workforce—in many ways. For one, we have seen women leave the workforce in droves, with some experts suggesting it could be one of the steepest declines in history. Still, this goes deeper than the pandemic. This is only part of a perfect storm that has been brewing in the labor force.

 

Read More: https://connectedworld.com/2021-women-of-technology-rising-after-the-storm/#Donna%20Moore

TRACKING DEVICES FOR MARINE ANIMALS

The movement data of individual animals helps scientists to understand how individual creatures as well as whole animal populations find their way in the world. The results are crucial to our ability to understand the effects of global warming and human interference into animal habitats as well as to save species from extinction and predict the spread of diseases through animals.

 

Read more: https://www.sensorland.com/PRPages/KEL023.html

LoRaWAN Expands Across India with IoT Network from SenRa and Senet

SenRa has built an Internet of Things network and provides deployments in 74 cities throughout the country, with plans to build out across all other major cities and into second- and third-tier cities and villages, for solutions ranging from utility meters to transportation and environmental condition monitoring.

 

Read More: https://www.rfidjournal.com/lorawan-expands-across-india-with-iot-network-from-senra-and-senet

Central Tuli Game Reserve becomes first ‘Smart Parks system’ in Botswana

The Timbo Afrika Foundation and Smart Parks have implemented the “first Smart Parks system in Botswana”. From now on, African wildlife will be protected in the Central Tuli Game Reserve with smart, advanced technology. Moreover, this enables the relocation and introduction of endangered and disappeared animal species.

 

Read More: https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2021/06/14/central-tuli-game-reserve-becomes-first-smart-parks-system-in-botswana/43854/

Police smart sensor initiative combating Welsh farm thefts

Welsh farmers are using wireless technology to combat farm thefts, as new figures show about one in five farmers were victims of crime in 2020. Smart sensors, which operate through a low-power, long-range, wide area access network (LoRaWAN), can detect when a tractor or quad bike is being moved and data on these movements is logged on an app.

CrisisGo Provides Smarter Solution for Wireless Help Buttons

CrisisGo, a leading provider in emergency communications, incident management, and student/staff health management, announce the release of Safety OneClick: an easy-to-use, physical wireless panic button system, extending your safety plan to any location.

The LoRaWAN® Standard Is Open for Business in Israel

Israel’s Ministry of Communications recently signed a decree authorizing LoRaWAN® and confirming the Official Regulation for LoRaWAN in Israel. This decree officially opens a new band for LoRaWAN in Israel between 917 and 920 MHz and allows for full commercial LoRaWAN deployments.

“The Israeli Ministry of Communications is proud to lead the process of regulatory approval and implementation of LoRaWAN technology in Israel. The ministry sees this technology as an integral part of the IoT. Approval of technology in Israel will enable the realization and promotion of the Internet in many areas such as smart cities, agriculture, industry and so on. A tier in the further development of the Israeli economy.”

Until now, authorizations in Israel were for trials, with several cities in Israel conducting pilot network deployments. This new spectrum allocation provides certainty and confidence to the Israeli market that full commercial LoRaWAN deployments are open for business. As a result, the LoRa Alliance anticipates higher investment in the LoRaWAN ecosystem in general and Israel in particular knowing that deployments are authorized.

“It is fantastic to see LoRaWAN being allocated spectrum in countries around the world and I’m very excited at what this development means for the Israeli market. Having authorization from Israel’s Ministry of Communications is a clear signal to the supply chain and end-users that LoRaWAN is market-ready, and the infrastructure is in place to support full commercial deployments. I look forward to learning about how companies in Israel are using LoRaWAN and invite them to join the LoRa Alliance ecosystem to accelerate their go-to-market plans.” ––Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance

The work to secure this status is the result of the LoRa Alliance® Regulatory Working Group’s engagement with the Israeli government since January 2020 to share technical and marketing information on LoRaWAN and preferred regulatory conditions with extensive support from local member companies who participated in the working group effort. The LoRa Alliance specifically thanks Actility for its extensive support in Israel.

“This step was much awaited to unlock LoRaWAN business in Israel. We are proud of the coordination work achieved with the Ministry of Communication and the LoRa Alliance, leveraging Actility’s local presence in Israel to guarantee the success of this long series of negotiations. Actility is confident that LoRaWAN deployments in Israel will add another piece of success stories to the LoRaWAN growth around the world.” – Ramez Soss, ThingPark Product Manager at Actility.

Last week, the LoRa Alliance released a new profile called ‘AS923-4’ to be used in Israel to promote the development and deployment of LoRaWAN in the country.

 

 

 

April 2021 Special Edition: Internet of Things Handbook 2021

Here’s the latest IDT security nightmare: All of the wireless routers through which most loT traffic passes are probably vul­nerable to botnets and other kinds of security breaches. That’s the conclusion of researchers at Fraunhofer FKIE in Germany who analyzed 127 different routers sold by seven vendors. The routers they examined are sold in Europe, but a quick check reveals many of them have versions available in the U.S.

Inspirational Women in STEM and Tech: Donna Moore of LoRa Alliance On The 5 Leadership Lessons She Learned From Her Experience

Donna Moore is CEO & Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance®. In this role, she oversees the organization, its strategy and direction, and drives the global adoption of the LoRaWAN® standard. Moore has nearly two decades of experience launching new companies and growing businesses across a variety of industries and competitive environments. Most recently, she was the co-founder and CEO of SpireSpark, a company that designs, builds and manages worldwide certification, compliance and conformance programs. Before that, Moore served as the executive director of the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), the standard for streaming local video, audio and picture files to each other over a LAN. Under her leadership, DNLA achieved global market adoption, with over 4 billion certified devices deployed worldwide, and established multiple strategic alliances internationally across multiple industries. Moore holds a B.S. from San Diego State University.

Semtech Accelerates Technology Deployment Aimed at a Smarter, Sustainable Planet

Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, is amplifying its mission to make the planet a smarter, more connected and sustainable place by providing an innovative Internet of Things (IoT) platform. With solutions deployed globally, Semtech’s LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® protocol help reduce environmental impacts and remedy challenges facing the global community spanning wildlife protection, sustainable farming, combating COVID-19, water conservation to high-risk flood monitoring.

Mainlink Preparing Wireless Networks Expansion by Partnering up with TEKTELIC

Mainlink, a provider of services based on the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, has collaborated with Canadian company TEKTELIC, which will speed up the development of the LoRaWAN® wireless networks. The new partnership will provide Mainlink with base stations and other equipment necessary for the reliable and global performance of the network.

FUOTA Specification for IoT Devices

How do you keep IoT devices with up-to-date software? I learned a bit about the Firmware Updates Over the Air (FUOTA) specification. I wanted know more so I contacted Dave Kjendal, CTO and COO at Senet. Senet provides connectivity platforms and flexible, cost optimized business models to deploy carrier-grade LoRaWAN® networks. 

UK’s Largest Smart Water Network Pilot shows Promising Results for Leakage

The UK water industry has challenging targets to improve service for customers by 2025 including reducing water leakage by at least 15%.

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Digi International Acquires Haxiot

LoRaWAN Solutions Leader Broadens Portfolio and Market Reach of Digi’s IoT Embedded Systems Business

HOPKINS, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) (www.digi.com), a leading global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity products and services, today announced that it has acquired Dallas-based Haxiot, an industry leader in end-to-end LoRaWAN®-based solutions. Terms of the acquisition were not immediately disclosed.
 

Go-IoT Joins LoRa Alliance

Iceland & London, UK • Feb. 4th 2021 Go-IoT an Icelandic / UK based IoT technology development company announces that it has joined the LoRa Alliance as an adopter member. This membership will allow Go-IoT to accelerate the adoption and integration of the LoRaWAN® protocol around the world. The LoRa Alliance is an open, nonprofit association which began in March 2015 and currently has in excess of 500 members.

LoRa Alliance® and GS1 in Europe Enter Liaison Agreement to Explore Combining GS1 Supply Chain Standards with LoRaWAN®

Initial pilot successfully leverages LoRaWAN and RFID standards to reduce maintenance costs and improve operational efficiencies in the railway industry

Fremont, Calif. – March 3, 2021 – The LoRa Alliance®, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® standard for Internet of Things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), and GS1 in Europe, a not-for-profit organization that develops and maintains global standards for business communication to improve efficiency, safety and visibility of the supply chain in a variety of sectors, today announced a formal liaison agreement to explore adding LoRaWAN networks as an available carrier technology to the GS1 standards. The organizations’ goals are to provide greater efficiency and interoperability for supply chain and maintenance operations, strengthen inventory management, and simplify data exchanges between different systems and stakeholders. The initial collaboration addresses the requirements of the railway industry, with other sectors to follow.

 

A pilot project is in progress in France for national railway companies to implement a more cost-effective identification system for infrastructure and rollingstock. This initial collaboration is proving the feasibility and value of carrying GS1 identifiers from EPC/RFID tags over LoRaWAN networks. Additionally, an enriched data format is being specified, which can be applied to the railway industry to improve geolocation use cases by networks, as well as access to additional sensing data for predictive maintenance and asset management. End users will have access to easy digitization of existing systems, as well as reduced integration and operational costs resulting from larger adoption of GS1 standards with LoRaWAN.

 

“The deployment of LoRaWAN has greatly accelerated over the past 12 months and has positioned 2021 to be the year of massive scaling of applications across multiple industries,” said Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “One clear trend that has emerged is the need for multi-RAN strategies to address specific use cases. The combination of short-range RFID and long-range LoRaWAN networks represents a huge market opportunity, where cost-effective wireless communication can be achieved, amplifying the user benefits of both technologies. This liaison is another step in the LoRa Alliance’s strategic initiative to simplify the IoT by making LoRaWAN more accessible and interoperable with open standards.”

 

François Deprey, vice-chair of GS1 in Europe and CEO of GS1 France, explains: “What makes a lot of sense in this agreement between GS1 in Europe and the LoRa Alliance is a common belief in the benefits of interoperability. For the last 50 years, GS1 has been working with a lot of different industries to make supply chains more efficient, and data more portable and sharable. Nowadays, to fully benefit from the fast-growing development of IoT, better collaboration across sectors and data standardization are essential. In France, the pilot program of SNCF where GS1 France and the LoRa Alliance collaborate is a perfect use case to demonstrate the benefits for maintenance and operations in this sector. It also proves the necessity to deploy a ‘technology-agnostic’ common language to maximize the advantages of digital transformation.”

 

In the initial pilot program, the focus is on inventory and condition monitoring of railway industry assets. The project objective is to demonstrate that combining RFID and LoRaWAN deliverables cost-effective visibility of railway assets, resulting in improved uptime, maintenance, and operations. The ambition is to launch other pilots and projects within this cooperation to cover additional sectors and expand to other countries.

 

About the LoRa Alliance

The LoRa Alliance® is an open, nonprofit association that has become one of the largest and fastest-growing alliances in the technology sector since its inception in 2015. Its members collaborate closely and share expertise to develop and promote the LoRaWAN® standard, the de facto global standard for secure, carrier-grade IoT LPWAN connectivity. LoRaWAN has the technical flexibility to address a broad range of IoT applications, both static and mobile, and a robust LoRaWAN Certification program to guarantee that devices perform as specified. Deployed by 150 major mobile network operators globally, LoRaWAN connectivity is available in more than 160 countries, with continual expansion.

 

To learn more about LoRaWAN, the LoRa Alliance, the benefits of membership, and to keep up with the alliance’s latest developments, please follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook or visit our website.

 

LoRa Alliance® and LoRaWAN® are registered trademarks, used with permission.

 

 

About GS1 in Europe

GS1 is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the implementation of global standards to improve the efficiency, visibility and sustainability of products all around the world, and represents more than 2.5 million companies in the world. GS1 in Europe is the European collaboration platform of GS1 regrouping 49 countries in Europe and beyond, representing more than 500.000 companies in Europe.

 

GS1 in Europe role is to bring these companies around the table and foster collaboration in order to establish common rules and common standards.

 

If you are interested to know more about how we can support businesses through all our European projects and activities please visit our website www.gs1.eu or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

 

GS1 is a registered trademark of GS1 AISBL

 

MEDIA CONTACTS

 

Eric Lawson for LoRa Alliance

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Diogo Almeida, GS1 in Europe Events and communication coordinator

diogo.almeida@gs1eu.org

 

Farming for the future with the Internet of Things

It might well be handy for your fridge to tell you when you’re out of milk (or even order some more up), for the TV to be able to speak to the toaster and to be able to turn the heating up when you’re heading home from work.

But somehow these sort of things didn’t really chime in the farming world – and even if they did then the chances are that the poor connectivity in many farms and rural areas, with dial-up broadband speeds and mobile signal not-spots, would hamper any communication, no matter how brief.

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Smart City Infrastructure Transformed using Solvera Lynx’s Solutions based on LoRaWAN Technology

Smart cities move towards efficiency, advanced technologies, and new IoT challenges. Solvera Lynx’s energy management solutions are the game changer and a cornerstone of a Smart city transformation. Our communication devices based on LoRaWAN™ technology and an innovative software platform form the basis for successful smart city and energy management solutions…

Semtech and GSA Optimize Logistics and Inventory Management with LoRaWAN®

Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced that Green Scale Alchemy (GSA (News – Alert)), a leading developer of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for asset management in the retail and supply chain industries, has integrated Semtech’s IoT devices operating on the LoRaWAN® protocol into its IoT-based pool management platform. The platform enables accurate pallet management to increase logistical efficiency and has already been rolled out by Giffard, a large-scale French liqueur manufacturer, to remotely manage its packaging assets and tools across two of the company’s large warehouses.

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11 Myths About 5G Networking

An increase in 5G deployments will trigger a rise in complementary technologies that offer low-power flexibility, cost-effective power, and low-bandwidth options for massive Internet of Things deployments. 

What you’ll learn:

  • The benefits of LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol
  • How connectivity solutions complement the strengths of 5G

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