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3 CONNECTING UTILITY ASSETS USING LORAWAN www.abiresearch.com Utilities LoRaWAN has been predominantly strong with utilities connecting smart meters for gas and water utilities. China has been an early adopter of LoRa connectivity technology for smart metering projects, accounting for near- ly 65% of chips shipped in 2018. Birdz, a subsidiary of Novo Veolia and Veolia Water, announced on December 19, 2018, that it had chosen Or- ange Business Services (OBS) to connect 3 million LoRaWAN smart water meters. Veolia's contract is the largest smart water meter implementation using a public LPWA network. Energy utilities that are in more advanced stages of their smart meter deployments are now turning to modernize their Medium-Voltage (MV) and High-Voltage (HV) electrical infrastructure. ABB, a leader in electrification solutions, announced the availability of LoRaWAN surge arresters that measure excess voltage discharge current and leakage current. The LoRa Alliance and the DLMS association jointly announced in April 2019 their cooperation to deliver a new DLMS profile adapted for LoRaWAN networks, enabling many IoT ap- plications to be used by utilities and allowing the use of DLMS/COSEM for connecting smart electricity meters with LoRaWAN. Smart Buildings IoT solutions using sensors to monitor multiple environmental condi- tions such as temperature, humidity, and light intensity, and detect mo- tion, shock, and water leaks are increasingly used in commercial buildings. Smart buildings are also incorporating office space management solutions that use room sensors to provide real-time information on occupancy for access to desk space and conference rooms, and optimal usage of HVAC systems. Occupancy knowledge can also help building facility managers more efficiently manage soft services such as cleaning, waste manage- ment, and security. LoRaWAN technology has had the most success in enabling these use cases and benefits because of the availability of de- vices and ease of creating in-building networks with deep indoor penetration. Intelligent edge gateway vendors such as Cisco, MultiTech, Kerlink, TEKTELIC, and Laird all provide micro and femto gateways that support from 3,000 to 7,000 end-point connections respectively.