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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 LoRaWAN can e the technology to address this need. American ower has already started rolling ou t its network, and plans to cov er of the popu lation this ear. ax track is theref ore introdu cing LoRaWAN or data tracking in its dev ices. t is enhancing LoRaWAN-only dev ices with contex t awareness to minimiz e raw data transf ers, and will scale p its solu tion to e deploy ed in all cars with insu rance and roadside recov ery serv ice in raz il. his ef ort is already ongoing with the largest roadside assistance prov ider and the second largest insu rance company in raz il. LOGISTICS TRACKING Ab eeway has prov ided its tracking dev ices or s oT rack race olu tion in order to redu ce the nu mb er of cradles req ired or transportation of motors or a motorcycle manufacturer. This enables better cradle fleet management and optimiz ation of operations that has allowed to ild a new serv ice or cu stomers. he solu tion inclu des the hingP ark Location ngine or dev ice management and data storage, with a single AP or data collection. t ses the Ab eeway ndu strial racker for fitting to motor cradles and providing positions every five minutes. The tracker has a battery lifetime of up to four ears, and the company claims it of ers the lowest ill of materials cost in the market. he hardware is connected ia LoRaWAN connectiv ity ov er the pu lic range network ased on Actility s hingP ark platf orm. inally Wakeo track and trace analy tics are prov ided along with an application dedicated to logistics that matches the asset, tracker and tru ck telematics. REFRIGERATION Ref rigerators in retail stores and ending machines need their locations, and critically their temperatu re statu s, to e tracked so ood and ev erages are kept resh. Temperatures inside refrigerators can fluctuate widely, ecau se of thawing cy cles; env ironmental changes; interactions with cu stomers, su ch as opening of doors; and employ ee interactions, su ch as restocking. ne ex ample has seen National rewery in Nigeria— which rents more than 0, 000 point-of -sale ref rigerators to retailers— deploy 20, 000 temperatu re and hu midity end dev ices to ensu re optimu m temperatu re of eer. he deploy ment inv olv es 02 erlink iB gateway s su pported erlink Wanesy eolocation and the erlink Wanesy anagement enter. n addition to eing ab le to monitor ref rigerator temperatu re, National rewery can monitor the operational inpu ts of the rented ref rigerator, su ch as how of ten the door is open or closed. his enab les it to ensu re the ref rigerator is eing sed in a retail env ironment rather than or storage. n addition, geolocation enab les it to av oid thef t of the ref rigerator monitoring its location. he deploy ment enab les ref rigerators to e deploy ed ou tdoors and helps improv e the cu stomer ex perience ensu ring eer is at the correct temperatu re and ref rigerator maintenance is optimiz ed. SMART BUTTON READERS ie ost, the national postal serv ice of witz erland, has deploy ed LoRaWAN-enab led smart tton readers rom iromico to enab le it to of er cu stomers a range of serv ices rom su pply logistics that are su pported tton, su ch as or deliv eries rom pharmacies, to enab ling rev erse logistics, and postal workers picking p items or deliv ery . ie ost' s dev ice can e simply sed to scan an area of a parcel and transmit this inf ormation ia LoRaWAN, notif ing the sender' s or receiv er' s stored email address or mob ile nu mb er ia . he sy stem enab les— thanks to the LoRaWAN cov erage rom wisscom in witz erland— a ariety of tasks, inclu ding pay ment or serv ices to e commu nicated, and is intu itiv e or postal workers and those receiv ing mail. t enab les accu rate tracking of deliv eries and collections, enabling efficient operations and improved customer serv ice or the postal operator. MANUFACTURING neo-S ense' s lov er-C ore sensors hav e een chosen Lau ak rou p, a rench manu actu rer of primary components and assemb lies or the aeronau tics indu stry . ased on emtech' s 27 low-power wireless transceiv er, the sensors deliv er real-time, one-b ased

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