The LoRa Alliance is bringing its all members meeting and open house to Asia for the first time. It will be held in Seoul from 11-13 October to coincide with IoT Week Korea, and will be hosted by SK Telecom, which operates a nationwide LoRaWAN network in Korea, and sponsored by Actility, a global IoT […]
LoRaWAN gets a boost: Orange joins LoRa Alliance board
LoRaWAN, one of several technologies vying for market share in the low-powered wide area network market, has received a significant morale boost with France’s largest mobile network operator, Orange joining its board. LoRaWAN, Ingenu and Sigfox are the three leading new LPWAN technologies to have emerged in recent times to cater for need so IoT […]
Microcells extend scope of Senet’s US LoRaWAN network
Senet, which claims to be the first and only North American provider of public low-power wide area networks using the LoRaWAN technology, has added two new microcells as part of its network as a service offering, saying they will enable LoRaWAN coverage to be provided at a fraction of the cost of its current macrocells. […]
SK Telecom planning nationwide LoRaWAN network
Korean Telco SK Telecom has become the latest telco to announce plans for a nationwide low-powered wide area network based on the LoRaWAN technology. However its press release announcing the move is somewhat ambiguous. It says only that SKT is “building a nationwide Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) within this year,” and that “In July 2015, […]
NetComm Wireless joins LoRa Alliance
Australian M2M technology developer, NetComm Wireless, a major supplier of cellular technology for M2M and IoT communications, has joined the LoRa Alliance, the organisation set up to promoted the LoRaWAN low power wide area network technology developed specifically to support IoT applications. NetComm is an adopter member along with Australian company National Narrowband Network Communications, […]
NNN Co Australian LoRaWAN network set for launch
National Narrowband Network Communications (NNN Co), the startup planning a wireless network based on the LoRaWAN technology for connecting IoT devices, expects to start trials in August with a network of 10 base stations covering an area of 50-100 square kilometres on Sydney’s North Shore, and major customers across a number of IoT application markets. […]
SK Telecom has joined the LoRa Alliance
The LoRawan low-powered wide area radio technology developed for connecting devices in the Internet of Things has received a substantial boost towards standardisation with the announcement that Korean telcom SK Telecom has joined the LoRa Alliance and will collaborate with other members to achieve the international standardisation of the technology. The company has also unveiled […]
Startup planning Australian LoRaWan network
Australian startup company National Narrowband Network Communications is planning a dedicated low power wide area wireless network based on the LoRaWan standard for connecting IoT devices. The Australian LoRaWan network would be open to any organisation to use for its own IoT applications and devices and the company is looking to partner with Australia’s Government […]
IBM unveils LoRaWAN wide area network for IoT
IBM Research has unveiled a new wide area networking technology LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide-Area Networks) designed for the interconnection of Internet of Things devices, claiming that it can support communications rates of up to 100kbps over tens of kilometres from devices that can run for up to 10 years on a AA battery. The unveiling […]
