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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 1 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 1 Introduction and gap analysis Wi-Fi ® and LoRaWAN ® are two of the most adopted unlicensed technologies and together they address a large proportion of IoT use cases. The approaches for these technologies are on the disruption of private-public business models and also enabling participation in 5G success. The Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® Deployment Synergies white paper intends to demonstrate how these two widely deployed IoT Connectivity technologies can be utilized in tandem to effectively support a vast array of use cases. This paper will summarize the strengths of each technology, their individual positions in the IoT ecosystem, state their complementary nature, the way that both technologies can be easily deployed simultaneously and provide testimonials. The work aims to showcase to Wi-Fi network owners and/or network service providers how LoRaWAN ® can be deployed on the top of an existing Wi-Fi network and, as a complement, will allow for operational costs optimization. The opposite is also relevant in raising Wi-Fi awareness through the LoRaWAN ® ecosystem. The ingredients of the recipe: network roll-out, targeted use cases, interconnection, and security are described in this document. Due to the disperse requirements of all potential use cases, multiple IoT connectivity technologies have been developed in the IoT domain for the last 20 years, previously known as M2M. The Technology choice is driven by factors such as cost efficiency, data rate, battery consumption, and range requirements. Below is a list of the most deployed IoT Connectivity technologies: • Short Range: IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee, 6LoWPAN…), Bluetooth/BLE, Z-Wave, IEEE 802.11ad (Wi- Gig). • Medium Range: Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.11ah (Wi-Fi HaLo), IEEE 802.11p (vehicular transmission systems). • Long Range LPWAN: LoRa® / LoRaWAN ® , SigFox, Wi-Sun, Ingenu, DASH-7, Weightless. • Long Range Cellular: 2G-GSM / GPRS / IS 95 (CDMA 2G), 3G UMTS / CDMA, Long Term Evolution, NB-IoT, LTE-M (Cat M1), CBRS, Multi-Fire, 5G.