In this new Datatopia podcast episode, we discuss the ways in which IoT can improve our home life or our industrial performance, what is the need of industry certification programs for ensuring interoperability between devices and applications, as well as applications and markets that will benefit from the new profile of DLMS over LoRaWAN®.
LoRaWAN® News
Multi-Agent Approach Using LoRaWAN Devices: An Airport Case Study
The current situation with COVID-19 is changing our courses of action toward ensuring health security. This is particularly crucial in airports, which usually receive more than 300,000 travellers in one single day. In this work, we present an Internet of Things (IoT) network to monitor the status of toilets and improve their maintenance. The system is based on IoT networks with different sensors to control soap levels, room capacity, distances, temperature, and humidity. This information is processed by a multi-agent system that detects possible anomalies and makes decisions accordingly. A case study in a real environment is developed in order to demonstrate the usefulness of the system. The results show that the proposed method can be used to successfully manage and control airport toilets.
The case for a national IoT network
Everything from the farm gate to the factory production line is set to join the Internet of Things revolution. There’s only one problem – big gaps in connectivity are holding back our IoT aspirations. One engineer has floated a potential solution.
NNNCo Sustainable Cities Webinar
The Sustainable Cities and Communities: Scaling IoT for Resilience and Growth Webinar took place on 21 July 2020, held in conjunction with NNNCo, Enzen, Wellness TechGroup, the LoRa Alliance and City of Gold Coast.
Hackster.io, Smart Parks, and Key Industry Partners to Build World’s Most Advanced Elephant Tracker
In response to a growing crisis facing Africas diminishing elephant population, two technology leaders are coming together with leading technology and conservation partners to build the worlds most advanced tracker to protect elephants in their natural habitats.
Green Talk with LoRa Alliance
Watch Greenwave’s Green Talk with Derek Wallace, VP Marketing at the LoRa Alliance. In this interview, Derek presents the LoRa Alliance’s latest initiatives “connecting a smarter planet” and “LoRaWAN for good”. He then provides a high-level view of various use cases where LoRaWAN provides both economic and environmental benefits including:
- Smart & energy meters
- Smart agriculture
- Smart cities & buildings
Moore’s Lobby Podcast – Ep. 5 | LoRaWAN: The Things Network and LoRa Alliance Talk Open IoT
There are many IoT-enabling wireless protocols, but how many can lay claim to counting cars in smart cities while tracking cows in the fields of Australia? Let’s talk LoraWAN.
In this episode of Moore’s Lobby, host Dave Finch takes a look at wireless IoT technologies and comes away with the knowledge that there is definitely no such thing as a “one size fits all” solution.
Adopting IoT? Learn Why One-Off Solutions Can’t Compete with Platforms
The more data points you are measuring and processing, the more complex your system becomes. The key to simplification is integration, and the far more effective approach to IoT deployment is to build your network as a scalable, flexible platform.
Simplifying Wireless IoT Gateway Deployment With Secure Backhaul
While the LoRaWAN communication protocol provides AES-128 encryption of the data payload from the device through to the application, MachineQ goes a step beyond to provide secure backhaul transport between the gateway and the network server.
Introducing 10 New Ways to Use the MQ Platform to Scale Your IoT Solutions
Our mission is to improve how the world operates through the power of connected sensors. To that end, we are excited to announce that we are growing our catalog of LoRa solutions and releasing 10 new devices to support some of the most prominent use cases.
Smart Construction: More Than a Worthy Investment
Kwant.ai Sets the Industry Standard with Its Smart Construction Solution
With construction companies quickly adopting artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and IoT networking, MachineQ’s secure LoRaWAN® platform is an easy and secure way to collect data in the field, in real time.
CareBand Launches COVID-19 People Safety Solutions
CHICAGO, IL — COVID-19 has proven that public health organizations and government institutions need a new approach when managing pandemics. The interconnected nature of the modern world poses difficulties for traditional methods of disease management and control.
Leveraging IoT Technology for Good
Global businesses and communities have consistently turned to the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to increase efficiencies and deliver better services. Research supports this sentiment as Juniper predicts that IoT platform revenues will reach $66 billion in 2020, a 20 percent increase over last year’s figure.
Semtech’s LoRa Devices to Ensure Safety in Ultramarathon
Semtech Corporation SMTC recently announced that Everynet has used the geolocation and asset tracking capabilities of the company’s Low power, high Range (LoRa) devices.
The LoRaWAN technology and related devices have been used to track runners in real time over hundreds of kilometers. This enables the race organizers to get accurate data, which helps them prevent injuries among the runners and keep them safe, ensuring that the event turns out to be a successful one.
Embedded Executive: Dave Kjendal, CTO and EVP of Engineering, Senet
The LoRa Alliance is a fairly dynamic organization, as projects appear to be progressing nicely. The organization began with just a handful of vendors and has now grown to more than 500. To that end, Dave Kjendal, CTO and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Senet, has just joined the Alliance’s Board of Directors. It seemed like a good time to speak to Dave to hear what his ideas and direction are for the Alliance. Dave is my guest on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.
LoRa Alliance® Membership Benefits for Adopter Members in 2020
The LoRa Alliance® exists to develop and promote the open LoRaWAN® protocol and its ecosystem to deliver massive Internet of Things (IoT) worldwide. To reach this goal, it is crucial that member companies are successful in LoRaWAN-related pursuits and obtain real value from membership. This is especially true for adopter members who benefit from the large presence the LoRa Alliance has in the world of IoT.
LPWANs Help Realize Supply-Chain Monitoring’s Potential
IoT is enabling a new era of end-to-end supply-chain monitoring and actionable analytics. Low-power, wide-area networks provide the connectivity to make this possible.
Real-time, transparent, and seamless tracking of assets, both indoors and out, while optimizing logistics and supply chains, has long been the focus of innovative companies around the globe. Internet of Things (IoT) technology is on the cusp of ushering in a whole new era of end-to-end supply-chain monitoring and actionable analytics. In particular, the recent emergence of low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) is driving this transition.
Know Your Place: Technology Helps Keep Track of What Matters
Today, municipalities and businesses are testing and deploying a variety of systems that aim to locate vehicles and assets. For detecting people, the methods range from crowd control to tracking emergency responders. Assets and inventory systems are homing in on tool location on work sites, bicycles for micro-mobility and vehicles for supply-chain information.
Netze BW launches largest LoRaWAN deployment in Germany
Netze BW, the largest distribution network company for electricity, gas, and water in Baden-Württemberg, Germany’s third-largest state, has launched the largest LoRaWAN deployment in that country.
Working with Kerlink, a solutions provider dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), and ZENNER IoT Solutions, a LoRaWAN system integrator and solution provider in Germany, the deployment includes up to 3,000 Kerlink Wirnet LoRaWAN gateways.
June 2020: Pursuing Sustainability One Smart Home, One Connected Community at a Time
Technologies that create smarter, healthier homes lead to smarter,
safer cities and a healthier planet.
The EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) suggests Americans, on average, spend about 90% of their time indoors—this statistic is possibly even higher during a pandemic in which Americans are encouraged to stay at home by their local governments. Indoors, the concentration of some pollutants is often two to five times higher than it is outdoors. The very young, the very old, and those with cardiovascular or respiratory disease tend to spend even more time in built environments, and the EPA says these are the people who are most likely to be affected by air pollution.
Why LoRa will be the Likely Winner in Lightweight WAN Battle
Technically the various WAN technologies are variations with trade-offs between range, power consumption and data rate. So what makes LoRa special?
There are several alternative technologies being promoted as lightweight wide area networks (WANs). These include LoRa, Sigfox, Ingenu and Weightless along with some other radio standards that, to a greater or lesser degree, cover the same technical ground. It seems unlikely all of these will survive. Which will emerge as the winner?
LoRaWAN Supports Medical Professionals During COVID-19
COVID-19 is taking a tremendous toll on medical and other frontline professionals around the world as they treat infected patients while dealing with the physical and emotional stress of long days, lack of supplies, extreme worry about being infected (or, worse, infecting loved ones at home), as well as uncertainty about the present and future. They need help in their struggle to treat patients with COVID-19 and prevent the spread of the virus, and governments, institutions, private companies, and individuals around the world are responding to this call.
Low Power Wide Area Networks nell’IoT
There is no doubt about the role 5G will have in companies of the future, but there are numerous scenarios where #LPWAN technology is better suited. In this article, Marcello Marino from Unidata explains the different LPWAN technologies and why #LoRaWAN is the ideal technology for #smartmetering, #Smartutilities, #smartcities, and other applications.
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IoT sensors on Etna to predict eruptions
A team of French researchers, in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, is monitoring the level of radon leakage from the most active volcano in Europe to try to predict an imminent eruption. To allow data collection even during the winter months, the team used an automated system to acquire data in real time.
Collaboration for LoRaWAN deployment in Germany
Kerlink and ZENNER IoT Solutions have collaborated on what claims to be the largest LoRaWAN deployment in Germany, including up to 3,000 Kerlink Wirnet LoRaWAN gateways. The network is operated by Netze BW, the largest distribution network company for electricity, gas, and water in Baden-Württemberg, Germany’s third-largest state.
NNNCo to distribute Sensoterra soil moisture probes
NNNCo has teamed up with Dutch manufacturer of wireless soil moisture sensors Sensoterra to bring its products to the Asia Pacific.
Sensoterra’s LoRaWAN soil moisture probes are available on the LoRAWAN AS923 band (923MHZ) enabling the devices to work on LoRaWAN networks across Australia and Asia Pacific.