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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 18 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 As we have all experienced, Wi-Fi is deployed in nearly 100% of hotels globally, as a platform for broadband and customer focused services (tourist information, web services, etc.). Wi-Fi also supports the operations of the hotel through lift shaft monitoring, roof space and door / locker closures. LoRaWAN ® use cases LoRaWAN ® is ideal for any number of use cases, which require deep indoor coverage and long battery life [10]. For many applications, sensors are placed in remote areas, where coverage is hard to ensure and where access for battery replacement is difficult. Some examples of these types of applications would be leak detection, sub metering, smoke detector alarms, intrusion and presence monitoring, rodent trap monitoring and predictive cleaning and maintenance. LoRaWAN ® also offers the ability to cover outdoor areas cost effectively to enable things like smart parking, smart lighting, beam lighting, asset / vehicle tracking, or smart irrigation and allows the smart building to be part of a larger Campus or city. Energy optimization within buildings is a key part of every company's sustainability / green initiatives. Savings of up to 25% can be achieved thanks to simple actions based on the analysis of smart-counter index information provided by LoRaWAN ® enabled smart-meters. LoRaWAN ® can also be used in a number of ways to monitor how space is being utilized. One example is conference room usage: either straightforward occupancy or actual counting of the number of people in a room. Studies indicate that up to 30% of the time a conference room is booked, it is not used. Likewise, the average size of conference room holds 6-8 people while the most common meeting size is 2-3 people. Desk / Meeting room occupancy monitoring is a growing trend, especially in "hot desk" environments. The evolution of the white-collar office is clearly towards shared workspaces and remote work. Reducing the amount of space used has an impact 10x greater than energy savings alone when leasing costs are considered. As a tenant, it is almost impossible to know if you have leased the optimal square footage and implemented efficient usage programs to house your operation. Property management firms cannot be omniscient to observe space utilization. How well is a hot-desk program running? Where are the available desks? Do we really need this many meeting rooms? Occupancy sensors give you real-time availability of information as well as historical usage over time. Real data provides evidence needed to right size your real estate footprint, potentially saving up to 25% in rent or lease expense. As co-working spaces are disrupting the competitive landscape for office tenants, facilities managers are under increasing pressure to ensure tenant workers are happy, comfortable and delighted. Workers are demanding amenities and refuse to settle for office space that is sub-par. Healthy environments are not only essential to keep tenants, they are also cost effective. Real-time monitoring of temperature, humidity and CO2 levels (smart health monitoring) leads to real energy savings across a floor, a whole building or multiple buildings. Consolidating data over multiple facilities over time provides a comprehensive view of trends and performance including impact of external forces such as weather that leads to more-informed and better decisions. Most facility managers spend significant budget cleaning areas that are already clean, emptying waste bins that are only partially full and responding to predictable crises because they do not have real-time insight about when to intervene. This approach is expensive and inefficient. This problem of predictive cleaning has become key. Data generated by actual use allows you to move from wasteful schedule-