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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 27 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 Wi-Fi use cases Wi-Fi has already entered the connected vehicle space. A dedicated white paper has been released by the Wireless Broadband Alliance [16]. All carmakers are now installing Wi-Fi hubs access in cars to provide passengers with onboard broadband services. In general, Wi-Fi in transportation is focused on passenger broadband services. The challenge here is to manage mobility with the same quality of service in trains, buses or planes. As for cities, Wi-Fi is the perfect media to promote additional web-based services (free or charged) with a variety of business models (free, freemium, prepaid, etc.). Next, Wi-Fi participates to reinforce and simplify access control for passengers on trains, buses and flights (on-boarding cards, QR codes...). Additionally, as for cities, transportation hubs (train station, underground, etc.) need digitalized people counting potentially based on Wi-Fi. Finally, Wi-Fi can be an enabler of car sharing business models (authentication, monitoring, invoicing). LoRaWAN ® use cases Automotive and aircraft industrial players are adopting LoRaWAN ® rapidly for returnable asset tracking and smart logistics. These assets are metal racks used to carry car or airplane parts between the supplier's plants and the manufacturer's warehouses and assembly lines, those usually being close to each other. After parts are consumed in the assembly lines, racks come back empty to their original location. For cars, the main categories of involved parts are gearboxes, engines, dashboards, windshields, transmission, exhaust, bumpers, interior and steering column. Given the cost of the racks, the efficiency of these closed loops is key. Both automotive and aircraft manufacturers have started to deploy private networks on site, and they have less than one-year Return on Investment (ROI) without the need of extensive coverage during transport. Operators or system integrators can also operate these networks. The benefits of this solution are: • Automated inventory with complete synchronization between plants in multiple countries, different entities of the company and eventually including tier-1 suppliers. • Maintenance OPEX savings around 10% of the CAPEX per year because of assets loss reduction. Loss is mainly related to the challenge to keep track of empty assets (racks): manual operations like scanning or reading are not 100% reliable. Therefore, the goal is to reduce the number of empty assets. • CAPEX reduction for the same number of loops based on the decrease of the number of unused empty assets. This use case is already enabled by on site rack presence detection, but sometimes customers also want indoor geolocation to identify the area where the assets are within the factory. The advantage of the solutions using LoRaWAN ® is that they provide seamless indoor and outdoor geolocation without manual intervention.