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LoRa Alliance releases formal roadmap for LoRaWan standard

Internet of Things16 Apr 2024

The roadmap outlines significant enhancements to broaden market reach and simplify deployments, including improved connectivity in challenging environments.

Report finds LoRaWan “widely embraced” by cities and buildings

Internet of Things31 Jan 2024

Report highlights LoRa Alliance progress throughout the year, in addition to providing updates on LoRaWan deployments, tech and certification advancements.

LoRaWan solution claims to make cities smarter and safer

Internet of Things13 Nov 2023

Members of the LoRa Alliance are working together to help cities more easily expand the diversity and complexity of the Internet of Things ecosystem.

LoRaWan experiencing major growth in Asia Pacific

Internet of Things28 Jul 2023

Many of the largest scale LoRaWan deployments are in core smart city areas such as environmental monitoring and energy management and street lighting.

LoRaWan enables weather and air quality data-sharing

Internet of Things24 Jul 2023

Built by a community of operators, the Helium Network is the largest LoRaWan network delivering secure, reliable, accessible, decentralised wireless coverage.

Is LoRaWan a rising star of the smart cities sector?

Internet of Things28 Apr 2023

The LoRa Alliance is showcasing how the LoRaWan open standard for IoT low-power wide-area networks is driving Industry 5.0 applications and deployments.

Semtech announces LoRa-enabled products for Amazon Sidewalk

Internet of Things29 Mar 2023

Amazon Sidewalk will leverage LoRa technology as one of the foundational technologies to connect a range of devices to build more connected communities.

Simplifying the smart city

Internet of Things22 Feb 2023

Donna Moore of the LoRa Alliance highlights how the LoRaWAN networking protocol and ecosystem can address a municipality’s desired outcomes, costs, and goals.

Singapore launches first LoRaWan sensor network

Internet of Things07 Feb 2023

Starting with the heartlands, it will scale nationally and increase the accessibility of IoT technologies for government projects and Smart Nation initiatives.

Yorkshire Water drives leakage reduction with advanced metering

Water17 Jan 2023

Smart meters and extended LoRaWan network infrastructure coverage will allow Yorkshire Water to improve service delivery for customers across the region.

Demand set to spike for smart city solutions

4G and 5G16 Jan 2023

Frost & Sullivan predicts the market will likely experience a boom with investments in telecommunications network upgrades to 5G standards driving growth.

LoRaWan helps to deliver smarter buildings in Indonesia

Residential buildings06 Jan 2023

Semtech LoRa devices and the LoRaWan standard have helped utilities use the IoT and smart meters to increase tenant satisfaction by more than 50 per cent.

LoRa-based solution to optimise buildings management

Internet of Things08 Dec 2022

Launched in the US to reduce energy consumption, Nordic Propeye claims the solution leverages artificial intelligence to achieve 15-30 per cent energy savings.

IoT network deployed across Great Lakes region

Internet of Things01 Nov 2022

The LoRaWan network project is part of the state and federally funded broader roll-out of the Cleveland Water Alliance’s Smart Lake Erie Watershed initiative.

LoRaWan used in Goan smart city water metering project

Water12 Oct 2022

SenRa and Cranberry Analytics are partnering to digitise Panaji smart city’s water supply with the low power network and ultrasonic smart water meters.

LoRa Alliance extends LPWan coverage for smart cities

Internet of Things04 Oct 2022

Link-layer allows LoRaWan to achieve improved coverage in use cases requiring deep indoor or underground coverage, or relay data on satellite connected LoRaWan devices within proximity.

Senet and IotaComm team to deliver smart wireless networks

News21 Jul 2022

Through a combination of sensors, meters, and its Delphi360 wireless connectivity and data analytics platform, IotaComm provides an end-to-end smart building and smart city solution for the US.

LoRaWan provides end-to-end support for IP version 6

Internet of Things19 May 2022

The LoRa Alliance said the development broadens the standard’s internet of things market with smart metering the first application to leverage it.

Partnership delivers end-to-end smart city and IoT solutions

Internet of Things12 May 2022

Senet and Ready Wireless are collaborating to help North America municipalities and enterprises accelerate the deployment of a range of monitoring and asset tracking solutions.

5G use cases to drive growth in cellular IoT module market

Internet of Things10 May 2022

Report finds 5G will be preferred for Industrial 4.0 applications like digital twins, robotics and automation as well as connected and autonomous mobility.

Collaboration helps to smarten lighting in 100 Indian cities

Lighting05 May 2022

Semtech and CitiLight have already connected one million streetlights across the Indian cities using the LoRaWan standard to deliver an energy-saving of 1.29 billion kilowatt-hours.

New connectivity trends for smart cities

Internet of Things04 May 2022

As Semtech’s Alistair Fulton highlights, low-power, long-range wireless networks are only just being realised when it comes to building smart cities and their full potential must be recognised.

Partnership to offer LoRaWan smart street lighting for cities and utilities

Lighting05 Apr 2022

Turnkey nature of the solution makes it easy to add smart streetlights to existing LoRaWan networks such as those deployed for water utility advanced metering infrastructure projects.

The technologies that are shaping smart cities around the world

Editor's Blog18 Mar 2022

Artificial intelligence, LoRaWan and blockchain are among the technologies coming into their own and empowering authorities to increase efficiencies and improve quality of life for citizens.

Senet partners to bring LoRaWan connectivity to Ohio River Valley

Inclusivity18 Mar 2022

Company wants to address the lack of IoT connectivity in rural regions, which require as much data about assets, infrastructure and operations as cities to make better, data-driven decisions.

Kerlink partners to deploy LoRaWan and blockchain network in Vietnam

Internet of Things15 Mar 2022

The IoT specialist will work with VIoT Group to initially connect six cities and municipalities to the network this year with the second phase scheduled to cover 10 more cities in 2023.

Montevideo rolls out LoRaWan smart streetlighting project

Lighting28 Feb 2022

The Uruguayan capital is working with the National Narrowband Network Company and Wellness TechGroup to provide IoT network coverage to 70,000 smart streetlights.

UK utility develops smart water network

Water22 Feb 2022

Severn Trent Water is using internet of things and smart technology from Itron and Connexin in a £20m Green Recovery programme that will digitally transform services.

LoRaWan connectivity and devices deployed for Smart Islands project

Internet of Things18 Feb 2022

The network on the Cook Islands in the South Pacific will run several smart island use cases including energy metering, water management, air quality streetlight operation and emergency notifications, such as tsunami sirens.

LoRaWAN becomes dominant technology for low power wide-area networks

Internet of Things02 Feb 2022

Several market factors have driven LoRaWAN’s rapid scaling over the past year, including acceptance as an international standard by an independent standards development organisation.

Applications invited for IoT pre-accelerator

Internet of Things14 Jan 2022

The IoT Engine programme, based in the north of England, will provide successful applicants with expert support and is also deploying a dedicated LoRaWAN IoT network to test solutions.

Interactive map allows cities to see LoRaWan coverage across the US

Internet of Things21 Dec 2021

Senet and Helium have collaborated on the new visualisation and planning tools to assist customers with deploying internet of things solutions at scale across the US.

Cary deploys LoRaWAN technology to improve services to residents

News19 Nov 2021

By leveraging LoRaWAN connectivity and SAS’ data analytics, Cary will be able to better monitor floods and provide additional community services to its citizens.

Network operator begins national LoRaWan roll-out in six major US cities

News15 Nov 2021

The cities mark the initial wave of network operator Everynet’s deployment that includes the top 36 metropolitan areas and key logistics corridors across the US.

Vietnam realises major energy savings from wireless rooftop solar

News15 Sep 2021

Solar installed on temples and industrial parks have realised a 30 per cent reduction in energy costs from a LoRaWAN-based network compared to a traditional wired solution.

Tampa Bay Metro region deploys public LoRaWAN network

News22 Jul 2021

Senet claims it is the largest and densest metropolitan deployment of public carrier-grade LoRaWAN connectivity in North America and will have capacity to support millions of IoT device connections.

Standards-based solution seeks to accelerate smart city applications

News13 Apr 2021

Silicon Labs’ Wi-Sun solution will enable secure wireless connectivity for a broad range of applications, including advanced metering infrastructure and smart street lighting.

City Lights: Michael Guerin, Programme Manager, Smart Docklands

City Lights05 Apr 2021

On being an ’honest broker’, avoiding death by pilot and data driven smart cities.

LoRaWAN gateways power IoT network at Dutch port

News19 Mar 2021

Kerlink gateways are being used to piggyback on wind turbines at the Dutch Port of Moerdijk, receiving sensor data and information and securely transferring it to users via the IoT network.

Companies team for smart city blockchain networks connecting LoRa devices

News12 Mar 2021

MXC Foundation is collaborating with Semtech to deploy open networks using the LoRaWAN protocol and has already reached a strategic smart city partnership with the government of Hangzhou.

Uberlândia connects streetlights in infrastructure modernisation project

News03 Feb 2021

Fourth largest inland city in Brazil is working with Telensa on upgrade.

French city targets smarter parking, buildings and waste with IoT network

News27 Jan 2021

The city of Saint-Grégoire in north-western France is working with Kerlink to install a customised IoT network and has already achieved a 43 per cent reduction in electricity consumption.

LoRaWAN to go nationwide in the UK

News18 Dec 2020

Connectivity provider Connexin, which has raised £80 million in funding, aims to support increasing demand for smart networks and reduce barriers to entering the IoT market.

Telensa grows smart streetlight footprint across Poland and Czech Republic

News14 Dec 2020

The company now provides intelligent lighting control to 23 towns and cities across Poland and the Czech Republic with a total population of 250,000 citizens.

Construction company trials 5G edge networking

News19 Nov 2020

Taylor Construction said it is already experiencing the wide area network speeds and coverage it needs, including 20 times the performance of its 4G connection.

Shanghai crowned smart city of the year at Smart City Live 2020

News19 Nov 2020

The digital infrastructure, e-gov services, a City Brain, the integration of information technology and industry and its strategic objectives were all highlighted by the judges.

Xavier Mathieu, CEO, Birdz

Talent Interviews03 Nov 2020

Birdz has a central role in its parent company’s “raison d’être” to resource the world. Xavier Mathieu talks about the importance of having a job with purpose and why environmental IoT’s time has come.

Singapore opens smart city co-innovation lab

News29 Oct 2020

The lab aims to bring together leaders in the smart cities space to co-create and test innovations with local built environment and technology companies in a live environment.

oneM2M IoT standard to help underpin India's smart cities

News27 Oct 2020

As India strives to deliver over 100 smart cities across the country, standards-based deployment would help promote interoperability, security and multi-vendor deployments.

Companies collaborate on cloud-based tracking system

News20 Oct 2020

Semtech and TagoIO’s collaboration adds new functionality to the LoRa Edge platform to simplify the development of geolocation and asset management applications.

Spark switches on 5G in Auckland and demonstrates smart city applications

News15 Oct 2020

It has partnered with Auckland Transport to install an IoT-enabled infrastructure in the Wynyard Quarter to demonstrate connected lighting, smart parking, smart benches and smart bins.

European Commission launches Smart Cities Marketplace

News01 Oct 2020

The renaming of the Marketplace of the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities symbolises the anticipated merger with the Smart Cities Information System.

Amazon Sidewalk network to launch this year using Semtech LoRa platform

News22 Sep 2020

Tile announced as first third party Sidewalk enabled device

Singapore tops smart city ranking for second year running

News17 Sep 2020

The 2020 Smart City Index measures citizens’ perceptions of the impact that technology has on their lives, surveying them on areas such as governance, health and safety, mobility and opportunities.

Landis+Gyr and Vodafone partner to accelerate digital transformation for utilities

News16 Sep 2020

The partners report the global nature of the agreement ensures seamless access to more than 400 networks in 180 countries using a single subscriber identity profile.

Creating truly open cities: why interoperability and 6LoWPAN matterSponsored by Paradox Engineering

Opinions14 Sep 2020

Interoperability is the way forward for dynamic and effective smart cities, writes Gianni Minetti, CEO at Paradox Engineering

British smart city companies chosen for export academy to Asia-Pacific

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