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LoRa Alliance ® and LoRaWAN ® are registered trademarks. Used with permission. ©2020 LoRa Alliance ® www.lora-alliance.org WHY LoRaWAN ® IS THE LOGICAL CHOICE FOR ASSET-TRACKING CONNECTIVITY cov erage, which is ital or the large warehou ses that orm the core of international logistics, some of which inv olv e ndergrou nd capacity . LoRaWAN has the capab ility of penetrating these large ildings, ensu ring ninterru pted asset tracking. At these acilities, LoRaWAN of ers the option of pu lic or priv ate networks, which is attractiv e to large site operators ecau se it can driv e economies, assu re perf ormance and is perceiv ed to e highly secu re. n either ty pe of deploy ment, it' s worth noting that LoRaWAN has matu re secu rity that has een dev eloped ov er many ears. A rther strength is that LoRaWAN dev ices ty pically hav e ery long attery lif e, making them ideal or mu ltiple long ou rney s, su ch as or the months inv olv ed in intercontinental shipping, or or more complex applications su ch as pdating the location and statu s of a tru ck daily . LoRaWAN- enabled asset trackers can be simply and cheaply affixed to containers or other assets, enab ling smooth deploy ment. Asset tracking isn' t perf ormed in controlled env ironments, and logistics its natu re inv olv es shock, ib ration, temperatu re ex tremes and other actors not present in smooth, nonmob ile env ironments. LoRaWAN is ru gged so that it can continu e to operate in most ex treme situ ations. USE CASES here are a growing nu mb er of compelling se cases or LoRaWAN within the asset-tracking sector. st a ew of these are listed below to give a flavor of the applications that LoRaWAN can enab le ef ectiv ely . VEHICLE TRACKING tracker manu actu rer ax track operates in Latin America and has sold more than million dev ices in raz il ov er the last 20 ears, su pply ing the largest insu rers and tracking companies in the cou ntry . ach ear in raz il, approx imately 0, 000 ehicles are stolen— ab ou t of the total fleet. However, with the average cost of insurance being USD $800 per year, only 20% of the fleet has insu rance. tracking, which costs arou nd US 0 per ear, is theref ore an attractiv e solu tion. rev iou sly the market has relied on 2G cellu lar commu nication, which cov ers ab ou t of the popu lation. owev er, with 2G eing retired, alternativ es are needed, ecau se the cu rrent cost of 2G data or cards with 0M data plans is US per month. or LT the cost or the cheapest data plans is US .5 0 per month, so there is a hu ge cost gap that needs to e addressed.

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