3 2015
LoRa® Alliance Technical Marketing Workgroup
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INTRODUCTION
e purpose of this document is to give an introductory technical overview to
LoRa® and LoRaWAN™. Low–Power, Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN) are projected
to support a major portion of the billions of devices forecasted for the Internet of
ings (IoT). LoRaWAN™ is designed from the bottom up to optimize LPWANs
for battery lifetime, capacity, range, and cost. A summary of the LoRaWAN™
specification for the different regions will be given as well as high level comparison
of the different technologies competing in the LPWAN space.
