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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 19 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 based cleaning services to more efficient just-in-time cleaning. For example, you could set a usage threshold on a space that would trigger an alert to a cleaner when that threshold was met. With insight into usage patterns, you can transition from simply reacting to crises and customer complaints to proactively addressing issues before they become problems, thus improving the experience of your customers. In addition, service sensors keep you apprised of cleaning activities so you can monitor and enforce your service level agreements with your vendors and staff and can be combined with Customer satisfaction buttons (Green, Yellow, and Red). Creating safer building evacuation systems is another of the applications where LoRaWAN ® technology brings a high value. Being able to regularly monitor the proper functioning and the battery level of an Exit sign for example, helps to avoid any risk of failure during an evacuation event. A simple light bulb failure could have major consequences in case of an emergency. Using LoRaWAN ® communication between luminaires and stations now makes it cost effective to cover large indoor areas at a fraction of the cost. This also minimizes the need of routers and need of upgrading building infrastructure. The impact of early leak detection cannot be overstated. Insurers, building owners and tenants all have a vested interest in detecting leaks early. The damage caused by even a slow leak over one weekend can run into the $10k's to $100k's very easily. If expensive equipment is damaged or the leak is more substantial, the costs can be significantly larger. Hotels and smart Hospitality are another area where LoRaWAN ® brings great value in IoT: air conditioning and energy monitoring, door / window opening alarms, room usage, leak detection, temperature and humidity monitoring, and air quality monitoring are all use cases which can be enabled. Moreover, hotel kitchens offer the opportunity for even more LoRaWAN ® use cases such as: temperature monitoring, cold chain monitoring, smoke detectors, intrusion monitoring, energy monitoring, and presence detection. Hybrid Wi-Fi / LoRaWAN ® Wi-Fi broadband is present in most buildings. Wi-Fi can be combined with LoRaWAN ® to bring about accurate asset tracking indoor or near buildings. Hybrid Wi-Fi / LoRaWAN ® devices can provide long battery life devices with on-demand streaming. Events from low power LoRaWAN ® sensors can trigger higher resolution data on Wi-Fi when needed. For example, a motion sensor / camera device can report motion to the cloud but enable the device to preserve battery except when an event is triggered. Algorithms can decide to turn on the camera or not. Such a device can be battery operated and still have long life. Furthermore, series of LoRaWAN ® sensors (motion, sound, vibration…) can be aggregated in the cloud for more precise decision making. As an additional example, NomoSense has built a hybrid solution relying on Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN ® to reinforce work force safety in remote hazardous areas where Cellular networks are rarely available. NomoSense has iteratively designed a solution leveraging local Wi-Fi hot spots back-hauling LoRaWAN ® Gateways. It relies on LoRaWAN ® sound sensors to monitor remote construction site health combined with Wi-Fi hot spots to localize local work force in case of alert, thus increasing staff safety. So, Wi-Fi hot spots both provide location services and back-haul to LoRaWAN ® Gateways.