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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 23 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 LoRaWAN ® use cases Smart City Utilities [11] are at the forefront of employing IoT technologies on their journey toward digital transformation. The technology leading this charge is smart metering. For utilities, smart meters are foundational toward building tomorrow's smart grid, ultimately enabling new operational efficiencies, new service opportunities, and new revenue streams. According to a recent report by ABI Research, in 2018 there was an installed base of 617 million smart meters and by 2023 this install base will double to reach 1.34 billion meters. Smart electricity meters are just the first wave of technology that is driving the utility market's transformation; a second wave—through the deployment of smart water and gas meters — is just beginning. The example of Veolia choosing Orange to connect over 3 million smart meters in France is a good illustration [12]. Another example of large implementation: Tata Communications LoRaWAN ® network will enable the customers of Indraprastha Gas, India's leading natural gas distribution company, to monitor their gas usage more accurately, in real-time, against available credit and pave the way for greater operational efficiency. Cities have still costly manual processes to both monitor their infrastructure and meet compliance requirements. The water network is a prime example of a large system, covering a wide area with many of the meters located in hard to access areas where automated monitoring can relieve the challenges of manpower access [35]. Electricity from streetlights [13] is a significant municipal expense, and by better managing it, cities can save money and cut greenhouse gas emission by reducing energy consumption. Smart light system provides the data that cities need to reduce energy usage while maintaining well-lit streets. Some LoRaWAN ® sensors can be included on the pole to provide more value and insight to the city and control the light based on situations. Few examples include, water flooding sensors that help the city identify near flooding areas, proximity sensors and counting sensors that identify the number of people walking around to optimize luminaria intensity for operational cost savings. Environmental and pollution particle sensors help people with risky medical conditions to know what to expect in specific areas before they plan their outing. Traffic light monitoring [13] allows municipalities to quickly respond to burned out lights, broken light poles from accidents, or malfunctioning signalling equipment. This helps with traffic congestion, accident prevention, and other hazardous situation management. Moreover, smart intersection monitoring can increase pedestrian safety and increase vehicular traffic fluidity. Collective waste is an essential City service, but too often, resources are used to collect under-filled waste containers when others are overflowing. Smart waste management systems [13] can help detect garbage levels in containers to optimize the waste collection routes for efficiency and cost effectiveness. As more people move to cities, noise and air pollution [13] become bigger challenges. Smart noise and air pollution monitoring can provide data that can improve citizen wellbeing and systemic health issue correlation. Air quality in schools in particular is a high potential use case because of the impact it has on family's concerns. As more and more cities are facing challenging traffic congestions, better managing parking's (smart parking) [14] - used first for the monitoring of dedicated parking place such as handicap or police places - has become critical. LoRaWAN® based sensors combined with credit card enabled parking meters provide municipalities with a total solution for expanding the payer base of a parking infrastructure. With