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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 31 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 Hybrid Wi-Fi / LoRaWAN ® Operators – such as Orange, for example - have deployed LoRaWAN ® Pico cells leveraging Wi-Fi backhaul to the user Set Top Box (home-hub) to expand coverage of home services to the neighborhood. Such neighborhood IoT networks support new geolocation services (e.g. Orange's "C'est ici" personal tracker), but in the future could also serve as a communication backbone for demand response services e.g. for multicast thermostat control, or for EV chargers which are hard to reach by other means in urban underground parking's of condominiums. Some operators are looking at deploying pico-cellular IoT networks leveraging LoRaWAN ® which require even less energy than macro cellular networks and present excellent connectivity performance in hard to reach areas due to large macro-diversity. Light reading paper [18] and Comcast high-density network webinar [19] illustrate this network design opportunity. Such networks will provide unbeatable infrastructure for next generation services such as automated water & gas metering (leak detection), smart lighting, home security (intrusion and presence detection), asset tracking, and interconnection of urban appliances. 8.6 Location services Figure 19 - Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN location services Location determination services are a good opportunity to show complementary between Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN ® . The device will periodically scan for Wi-Fi Access Points [20] and transmit the result over LoRaWAN ® , typically RSSI and (partial) MAC address for each AP detected [36]. LoRaWAN ® geolocation is realized by triangulation and precise timestamping, the precision is of around 50m and needs minimum 3