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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 11 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 The scheme above shows IoT connectivity technology split in range and data rate: • Wi-Fi covers short, and medium range use cases, at high data rate (can reach up to 1 GBps under certain conditions). It has an obvious cost in terms of battery consumption. • LoRaWAN ® covers long range use cases, at low data rate (0.3 KBps up to 50 KBps), with extremely low battery consumption, meeting up to 5 to 10-year battery lifetime, depending on device communication frequency. For instance, Wi-Fi will be relevant in transmitting real-time video information or internet browsing, where LoRaWAN ® will seamlessly deliver event-based information coming from a temperature sensor, although we can find some overlaps in the smart building and smart home areas where Wi-Fi has been operating for 20 years. Another illustration of the above complementarity is that we usually see in the smart building / smart home spaces: "Wi-Fi devices where people usually are" whereas "LoRaWAN ® devices where people usually are not (hard to reach areas)". 5 Market overview Wi-Fi market estimate Figure 9 - Wi-Fi broadband traffic ratio on 2016-2021 period