LoRa Alliance CEO & Co-chairwoman, Donna Moore, shares why you should attend LoRaWAN Live! New Delhi at the Pullman New Delhi Aerocity Hotel.
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Semtech and Hanbit Build Efficient Water Networks with LoRa Devices
Semtech Corporation announced that Hanbit, a provider of end-to-end automation solutions in smart gas, water and electricity metering, has developed a new UWM solution built on Semtech’s LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® protocol.
Hanbit’s UWM smart meters use ultrasonic pulses to take precise measurements of water flowrate as low as three liters per hour. Flow readings occur at fixed intervals to provide accurate insight into water use trends. This accurate meter data is accessible in real time through Cloud-based applications for simplified billing and trend analysis. In the event of a drop in water flow or other abnormality, the smart meter immediately sends a warning message over the LoRaWAN network to enable a quick response and prevention of damage. Additionally, the low power capabilities of LoRa devices enable Hanbit to offer metering solutions with up to 20 years of battery life, reducing replacement and maintenance cost to the customer.
Paige Wireless℠ Deploys North America’s First Statewide Public LoRaWAN® Network across Nebraska.
Friday, September 13, 2019 – Columbus, Nebraska – Paige Wireless LLC., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paige Electric L.P., announced today the deployment of their carrier-grade, public LoRaWAN® network across the State of Nebraska.
The Paige Wireless network aims to reignite rural America’s status as an epicenter for new, practical technologies that help industries, farmers, businesses, students and communities thrive. Known as the Silicon Prairie, Nebraska is already driving cutting-edge technology development and adoption. Paige Wireless enables them to go further.
Despite the typical top-down approach, Paige Wireless is working from the ground up to ensure that all sensors are connected, no matter how hard they are to reach. Nebraska’s new LoRaWAN® network from Paige Wireless allows users to deploy low-cost sensors, access real-time data, and make on-demand decisions to improve efficiency, safety, security, actionability, and the bottom line.
Paige Wireless, LLC. Announces Partnership with Nebraska Public Power District to Accelerate Connectivity Across Nebraska.
October 2, 2019 – Columbus, Nebraska – Paige Wireless LLC., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paige Electric L.P., announced Saturday, September 28, a partnership with Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) to accelerate the deployment of interconnectivity across Nebraska for computing devices embedded in everyday objects via the Internet, enabling them to send and receive data. Otherwise known as the Internet of Things (IoT), this interconnectivity will be made possible by the Paige Wireless LoRaWAN® network that spans the state.
“The collaboration between Paige Wireless and NPPD will enable the use of breakthrough technology to deliver exciting new programs and services to our customers” stated Pat Pope, CEO of NPPD.
MultiTech Receives 2019 Smart City Innovation Award from IoT Evolution World
MultiTech’s Leading IoT Gateway, MultiTech Conduit, Honored for IoT Innovation
MOUNDS VIEW, Minn., Oct. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Multi-Tech Systems, Inc., a leading global manufacturer in Industrial IoT communication devices, today announced that MultiTech’s Conduit®, the industry’s most configurable, manageable, and scalable communications gateway for industrial IoT applications, has received a 2019 IoT Evolution Smart City Innovation Award from IoT Evolution World, the leading online publication covering IoT technologies.
The award honors organizations delivering software or hardware solutions which enable the advancement of the smart home and building industry.
The MultiTech Conduit utilizes LoRa® Wireless technology to communicate valuable data and is ideal for Smart Cities as well as Agriculture, Industrial and Medical markets. Each Conduit gateway has the ability to manage thousands of MultiTech mDot™ – low cost LoRaWAN® ready modules able to connect sensors or appliances – and transmit their data over any cellular network to a customer’s preferred data management platform.
Semtech Innovates in the Smart Home and Healthcare Industries with Next-Generation IoT Solution
Integrated with Semtech’s LoRa Technology, the wearable devices track users close to their home to improve safety and protection
CAMARILLO, Calif., May 18, 2017 – Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, announced its collaboration with Movtek, a leading developer of Internet of Things (IoT) terminal devices and server platforms, in developing a LoRa®-based wearable device that can track the users exact location using GPS technology with the gateway integrated in users’ Smart Home. The technology is currently being deployed in smart watches and bracelets that can be worn by senior citizens and children who need monitoring for safety.
The smart watches are equipped with Semtech’s LoRa® devices and wireless RF technology (LoRa Technology) that features long range, low power capabilities. The features enable deep penetration capability for urban environments and indoor coverage enabling a variety of Smart Home and Healthcare applications. The Movtek devices are currently in pre-production and will be available by the end of 2017.
LoRa Alliance® Announces First Authorized Test Houses in India and Global Availability of the LoRaWAN® Certification Test Tool
Local device testing and the ability to pretest devices with the LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool make device certification faster and more cost-effective.
The LoRa Alliance® announced that Authorized Test House TÜV Rheinland has opened a LoRaWAN Certification testing site in India, and that DEKRA will also offer local certification testing by the end of the year.
Both company’s sites in India will provide local testing of LoRaWAN devices seeking to become LoRaWAN CertifiedCM.
At the same time, the LoRa Alliance announced that the LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT), introduced this past June, is now available to LoRa Alliance members globally. These two developments offer strong support to the India market making it easier and more cost-effective than ever before to certify LoRaWAN devices.
IoT Time Podcast S.4 Ep.31 WBA & LoRa Alliance
In this episode of IoT Time Podcast, Ken Briodagh sits down with Bruno Tomas, Director of Programs and Project Management, Wireless Broadband Alliance, and Remi Lorrain, LoRaWAN Ambassador from LoRa Alliance member company Semtech, where he is the Global LoRaWAN Networks Director, to talk about these two organizations are joining forces to educate the IoT community on the intersection of connectivity technologies, especially Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN.
LoRaWAN Live! India to boost up smart tech for a sustainable planet
The LoRa Alliance, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN standard for the Internet of Things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), announced that India-based SenRa has become the Platinum Sponsor of LoRaWAN Live! The event is focused on “Smart Tech for a Sustainable Planet,” and will showcase how the LoRaWAN standard is enabling a plethora of applications that enhance quality of life and environmental sustainability. As part of the sponsorship, SenRa CEO Ali Hosseini will deliver a keynote titled “LoRaWAN Drives India’s IoT Ecosystem” during the morning session.
“Strong market projections for LoRaWAN adoption in India and the Asia-Pacific region are precisely why the LoRa Alliance is coming to New Delhi in October,” said Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “We are strongly committed to supporting our members as they expand LoRaWAN deployments and backing them with the industry’s strongest certification program, to ensure devices in the field work as expected. We invite all device makers exploring IoT applications to join us to learn how the LoRaWAN Certification program can accelerate their development efforts and achieve rapid return on investment. I would also like to thank SenRa for becoming the platinum sponsor, and for all its efforts to promote LoRaWAN in India.”
Live From the MEMS & Sensors Summit ● WiFi & LoRa Make Nice ● How to Blow A Market Recovery
In this podcast episode we have…
· Sub-retinal chips! Tracking down intransigent parking malefactors! Voice control! Tiny insta-labs! It was all at the annual MEMS & Imaging Sensors Summit in Grenoble last week. We sent not one but two EE Times editors. We’ll hear from them about what they saw in France.
· Also this week, connecting the Internet of things. Long ago when people started planning for the internet of things, one of the requirements was a way to connect all the things that would make up the Internet of Things. Naturally, many proposals sprouted up – perhaps too many. Some relief is here, though. We’ll have a discussion with advocates of Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN on how those two wireless protocols will complement each other.
Listen to the full podcast here: https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1335176&utm_source=eetimes&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=podcast-widget#
Microchip Simplifies Hardware-Based IoT Security with the Industry’s First Pre-Provisioned Solutions for Deployments of Any Size
With a minimum orderable quantity of 10 units, Microchip’s Trust Platform provides hardware-based secure key storage for low-, mid- and high-volume deployments
BANGKOK, Oct. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — As the number and types of connected devices proliferate, market fragmentation and security vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things (IoT) have created significant challenges for developers. Hardware-based security is the only way to protect secret keys from physical attacks and remote extraction, but extensive security expertise, development time and costs are required to configure and provision each device. With companies producing anywhere from hundreds to millions of connected devices per year across the globe, scalability of architecture can be a major barrier to deployments. Manufacturers typically have only been able to support configuring and provisioning for high-volume orders, leaving companies with low- to mid-sized deployments with low performing options. To address this need in the mass market, Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) today introduced the industry’s first pre-provisioned solution that provides secure key storage for low-, mid- and high-volume device deployments using the ATECC608A secure element. Microchip’s Trust Platform for its CryptoAuthentication™ family enables companies of all sizes to easily implement secure authentication.
Read the full article here: https://www.asiaone.com/business/microchip-simplifies-hardware-based-iot-security-industrys-first-pre-provisioned-solutions
Kuzzle and Actility sign a partnership to simplify the deployment of LoRaWAN projects
At the IBS and Smart City events in Paris, Actility, leader in the deployment of low-energy networks LoRaWAN and Kuzzle publisher of Europe’s first open-source backend solution for IoT and Mobile, announced the signature of a partnership to accelerate the time-to-market of IoT projects and position itself as IoT’s global partners in sectors such as smart cities, connected buildings, management and maintenance of industrial assets, logistics and transport.
Read the full article here: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/10/01/1923021/0/fr/Kuzzle-and-Actility-sign-a-partnership-to-simplify-the-deployment-of-LoRaWAN-projects.html
How an Industry Standard Contributes to the IoT Ecosystem
This month, we’ll explore the important role of the LoRaWAN® protocol.
Navigant Research predicts that the global market for IoT solutions in smart buildings will grow from $8.5B in 2020 to over $22B in only six years. As the industry continually pushes for more connectivity and smart city integration, the importance of scalable and interoperable IoT technology increases.
Last month we examined how LoRa® devices are behind the increasingly sophisticated smart buildings that are being developed globally to improve efficiencies and reduce costs. This month, we’ll explore the important role of the LoRaWAN® protocol.
Read the full article here: http://automatedbuildings.com/news/oct19/articles/semtech/190917034808semtech.html
Protecting the World’s Art Collections with LoRaWAN®
At Conserv, we built one of the first environmental monitoring solutions using Semtech’s LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® protocol to bring better care to the world’s 450,000+ art and cultural collections in museums, libraries, archives, and private collections. Accurate and consistent monitoring is important because unhealthy collection environments – those with excessive heat, humidity, light, and vibration – do irreversible damage to valuable, sensitive objects. Sounds straightforward, right?
Read the full article here: https://blog.semtech.com/protecting-the-worlds-art-collections-with-lorawan
WBA & LoRa Alliance® Explore New IoT Use Cases Incorporating Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN® Technologies
WBA & LoRa Alliance® Explore New IoT Use Cases Incorporating Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN® Technologies
Mobile operators, enterprises, cities and other key Internet of Things (IoT) market players gain access to a wealth of new IoT use cases by combining two unlicensed connectivity technologies, as illustrated in a new white paper released today by the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and the LoRa Alliance®. Developed with input from mobile carriers, telecom equipment manufacturers and advocates of both connectivity technologies, Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN Deployment Synergies: Expanding Addressable Use Cases For The Internet of Things illustrates new business opportunities that are created when Wi-Fi networks that are traditionally built to support critical IoT are merged with LoRaWAN networks that are traditionally built to support low data rate massive IoT applications.
Read more here: https://semiengineering.com/week-in-review-iot-security-autos-10/
The Internet of Things Podcast – Stacey On IoT » Episode 235: How Amazon is defining the smart home
“This week’s show covers the big Amazon announcements in the guest segment, but first Kevin and I focus on the retailer’s smaller announcements around its new show and tell feature and voice interoperability efforts. Kevin has thoughts about cameras in the home. We also talk about Google changing how it handles voice recordings to help address user outrage while covering a study about the privacy challenges of other IoT devices. Then we dive into the geeky idea of merging Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN into a super IoT protocol, cover Zira’s industrial IoT software and figure out who might buy FitBit. “
Listen to the full podcast: https://player.fm/series/the-internet-of-things-podcast-stacey-on-iot/episode-235-how-amazon-is-defining-the-smart-home
LoRa Devices and LoRaWAN Protocol Lead Smart Metering into the Connected Future
As more cities move toward urbanization, countries all over the world are developing technology that will help fully monitor and control operations. With help from a unified Internet of Things (IoT) platform, cities are able to monitor and/or control a multitude of applications including electricity, water and gas meters, streetlights, waste management and parking.
Traditional utility meter monitoring operations are labor intensive, as they require manual reading and measurement by personnel in the field or remote reading using a short-range wireless technology typically in a drive-by scenario. Meters are often located in dense urban environments, indoors or even underground, which can be difficult or impossible to reach by many wireless technologies. By implementing a smart metering infrastructure comprised of sensors and gateways embedded with LoRa devices, utility companies can collect data remotely and use personnel more efficiently to streamline operations.
Sheep and cattle tracked by satellite as Welsh farms connect to the Internet of Things
Farmers can now see what their livestock get up to on their mobile phones. The trial project will be followed this autumn by the roll-out of LoRaWAN wireless technology across Wales
New wireless technology is to be rolled out on 18 demonstration farms in Wales this autumn to provide Internet of Things (IoT) capability to scores of producers.
It is hoped the Farming Connect initiative will become a catalyst for a data revolution in Welsh agriculture, driven by the use of feedback sensors to improve the industry’s accuracy and efficiency.
Read More: https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/sheep-cattle-tracked-satellite-welsh-16934705
Semtech supports network deployment in Tasmania
Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced that Definium Technologies (Definium) has deployed a new enterprise-grade statewide network in Tasmania based on Semtech´s LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® protocol, the company said.
The network facilitates Tasmania´s transition to a laboratory for testing new technologies and allowing start-ups, businesses, communities, and students to experiment as well as receive the benefits of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity from anywhere in-state.
Read More: https://financial-news.co.uk/semtech-supports-network-deployment-in-tasmania-2019083/
Fleet Space Technologies Raises $10 Million To Expand Nanosatellite Network
Fleet Space Technologies has raised US$7.35 million (AU$10.8 million) from global funds including Momenta Ventures and Horizons Ventures, to deliver ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity to remote industries, powered by a global constellation of nanosatellites.
Investors in the funding round also included Grok Ventures and Blackbird Ventures, who re-invested in the company, and the Kennard family, whose equipment hire company Kennards Hire, is a Fleet customer focused on digital transformation.
Read More: https://which-50.com/fleet-space-technologies-raises-10-million-to-expand-nanosatellite-network/
Semtech devices to increase utility efficiency
Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a supplier of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced that a state-of-the-art metering solution based on Semtech´s LoRa® devices has been developed as part of the MeDa project for one of Germany´s energy companies with Seluxit (Nasdaq: SLXIT), a developer of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, the company said.
The MeDa meter leverages a number of the advantages of the LoRaWAN® protocol enabling consumers to change wasteful energy habits and save money.
The deployment of the MeDa smart meter across Germany is increasing following the rollout that began in November of 2018, with several hundred thousand units of the total 6.4 million currently planned for deployment. The MeDa meter leverages LoRa-based solutions from Seluxit to provide real-time data monitoring of energy usage and proven connectivity to the Cloud for long-range data transfer.
Read More: https://financial-news.co.uk/semtech-devices-to-increase-utility-efficiency-20190819/
Actility and Hiber Join Forces to Power Remote IoT Connectivity
Paris and Amsterdam, 05 August 2019 – Actility, the leading LoRaWAN connectivity provider and Hiber, the startup nano-satellite powered IoT network, are today announcing that they are collaborating to enable LoRaWAN connectivity in the remote and developing parts of the globe that until now haven’t had access to a network. IoT (Internet of Things) service providers and enterprises operating in these areas will now be able to benefit from Hiber global nano-satellite connectivity via the Actility ThingPark Wireless and ThingPark Enterprise LoRaWAN management services.
Army Explores Uses for Smart City IoT Tools
The Army generally doesn’t deploy smart city technologies, but it does sometimes have to go to battle in urban environments.
That’s why the Army Research Laboratory has been researching how Internet of Things technologies “could complement the capabilities of military assets in urban operations — with smart city infrastructures supporting the emerging Internet of Battlefield Things, or IoBT,” as an ARL press release notes.
Read more: https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2019/08/army-explores-uses-smart-city-iot-tools
Cisco IoT Case Study – Caldas da Rainha and Actility
Caldas da Rainha and Actility transform city with Cisco IoT
The city of Caldas da Rainha in Portugal and Actility show how using Cisco IoT solutions such as gateways for LoRaWAN improve water management, waste collection, and parking.
Watch the video: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/case-studies-customer-success-stories/caldas-case-study.html
MONITORING AN ELECTRIC FENCE WITH LoRaWAN
Making sure that an electric fence which is keeping one’s cattle and sheep from wandering off is still working properly seems like a fairly daunting task, especially when this fence is quite a distance from one’s home so checking up on it is time-consuming. After a friend of [kiu] got called a few times by the police because some of the sheep had pulled a prison break, the obvious technological solution was to IoT-enable the fence with LoFence.
This solution is nothing if not elegant in its simplicity. For phoning home with status data, the system uses the Microchip RN2483 IC, which handles pretty much all aspects of LoRaWAN, so that one merely has to send data to its serial interface to transmit. Because this system uses The Things Network (TTN) there are no service costs due to the low data rates. This was the easy part, aside from having to add a LoRaWAN gateway to boost the signal in the area with the electric fence.
Read more: https://hackaday.com/2019/08/28/monitoring-an-electric-fence-with-lorawan/
TMC names MultiTech a 2019 Communications Solutions Products of the Year Award Winner
MultiTech LensTM recognized for exceptional innovation.
MOUNDS VIEW, Minn., Aug. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Multi-Tech Systems, Inc., a leading global supplier of M2M and IoT communication solutions, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded MultiTech LensTM the world’s first toolset for secure, distributed, scalable LoRaWAN® enterprise networks, a 2019 Communications Solutions Products of the Year Award.
Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tmc-names-multitech-2019-communications-120000851.html