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LoRaWan experiencing major growth in Asia Pacific
Many of the largest scale LoRaWan deployments are in core smart city areas such as environmental monitoring and energy management and street lighting.
LoRaWan deployments are experiencing major growth with the addition of millions of sensors deployed in the first six months of 2023, led by large projects in China, Japan, Korea, and India.
The LoRa Alliance, which is a global association of companies backing the open LoRaWan standard for the Internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWans), claims the continued evolution of LoRaWan networks is also increasing accessibility, further accelerating growth.
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Some of the largest scale deployments are in core smart city areas such as environmental monitoring and energy management, street lighting and safety, water metering and management and gas metering and leak detection.
“The Asia Pacific region has consistently been at the leading edge of LoRaWan deployments, and the trend has been accelerating through the first half of 2023,” said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance.
“As digital transformation accelerates and demand increases for more effective, efficient and environmentally sustainable solutions to protect the planet and people’s wellbeing, LoRa Alliance members have engaged in numerous deployments in the region to support a wide variety of applications.”
“As digital transformation accelerates and demand increases for more effective, efficient and environmentally sustainable solutions to protect the planet and people’s wellbeing, LoRa Alliance members have engaged in numerous deployments”
Recent LoRaWan projects and large-scale deployments announced in the Asia Pacific region include:
- Packetworx and Actility are deploying a nationwide public LoRaWan network in the Philippines with more than 6,000 gateways
- Milesight has completed multiple deployments across China, with approximately 50,000 LoRaWan devices deployed. Projects included lighting control system upgrade to improve management efficiency of campuses and reduce power consumption; digital transformation, including control, device control, energy, environment management, and space management; smart bin sensors and water leak detectors, improving operational efficiency, ensuring customer satisfaction, and integrating legacy systems
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- In a LoRaWan milestone for Singapore, iWow Technology has installed a network of more than 400 Tektelic 400 LoRaWan gateways to service over 25,000 sensors for smart metering and emergency response services
- SenRa collaborated with a large building management system company in India to optimise and expand its LoRaWan deployment covering a 65-acre site and leveraging more than 250 sensors in the initial phases of the project to support water metering and management, leak detection and remote monitoring. Phases planned for later this year are slated to expand into streetlighting, energy metering and parking solutions adding thousands of sensors
- Semtech supported Aeon Delight in equipping 90 administrative facilities in Japan with solar panel-driven LoRaWan sensors commercialised by Ricoh to measure temperature, humidity, CO2 levels and light remotely, reducing both labour and running costs.
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 closely collaborate and share expertise to develop and promote the LoRaWan standard, the de facto global standard for secure, carrier-grade IoT LPWan connectivity.
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