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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 25 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 Context Venues are places where there are large concentrations of people, such as squares, stadiums, transport stops, metro stations, and public transports. In these areas, cellular networks may be overflowed in certain periods of time. Wi-Fi use cases Wi-Fi Access Points are located in urban public venues, in which Local government may sponsor Wi- Fi placements. The latest evolution of Wi-Fi technology and specifically Wi-Fi 6 have improved the customer experience. Enhanced types of authentication participate to the better customer experience: Open Authentication, Web Authentication (Web-Login or One-Click), Voucher-based Authentication, Prepaid (with quoted time), or Open Transparent Auto Logon. A venue is the perfect place to offload cellular traffic on Wi-Fi infrastructure where cellular networks show coverage and capacity limitations. Roaming is a service offered by the Wi-Fi network service providers to end-users based on Next Generation Hotspot (NGH)seamless roaming. End-users are not even aware of moving to venue Wi-Fi networks when using their cell phone due to automatic network discovery and authentication from Passpoint ® . Wi-Fi in malls is mainly used for customer tracking and recognition, the focus is not so much on free internet service. Wi-Fi landing page information are used as communication tool to potential customers (announcing upcoming events) similar to the Smart City vertical. Big data and analytics applications reinforce the benefit for Venue owners and Cities. Security driven by Wi-Fi video in Offices, Enterprises, and Public Places (such as cafes, restaurants, hotels, oil stations, and so on) has become a critical use case (workforce, customer and territory control). High people density on a small area requires optimizing staff presence at the right place at the right time to optimize maintenance and customer services via end to end tracking solutions. With the Wi-Fi6 supporting low latency and target wakeup time, Wi-Fi can be also used for smart venues supporting applications like temperature control, automated ticketing, etc. LoRaWAN ® use cases LoRaWAN use cases are similar to Smart Building use cases with the addition of traffic direction, parking exit and entry directions, lighting, and trash collection. Hybrid Wi-Fi / LoRaWAN ® Location and video streaming use cases are the same as the Smart Building section.