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LoRa® Alliance Holds First All Members Meeting And Open House In The USA And
Continues To Drive Global Adoption Of LoRaWAN™
SAN RAMON, Calif. ‐ March 29, 2016 ‐ The LoRa® Alliance is one of the fastest growing Internet of Things (IoT) alliances,
having gained over 250 members since March 2015, and today announced that the first All Members Meeĕng and Open
House in Santa Clara April 4‐6, hosted by Cisco, will be a major force in driving LoRaWAN. adopĕon in the USA.
Currently over 50,000 people are working on LoRaWAN soluĕons, there are naĕonwide deployment plans publicly
announced for 15 countries, and there are live networks operaĕng in over 100 ciĕes in the world serving numerous IoT
applicaĕons and delivering an ROI for the end customers.
There have been over 6,500 downloads of the open LoRaWAN specificaĕon for secure, carrier‐grade low power wide area
networks, which has contributed to a mature and developed ecosystem. This was demonstrated at Mobile World Congress
2016 in Barcelona where over 120 end products and numerous gateway and network server opĕons were showcased,
some of which were demonstrated on the live citywide LoRaWAN network sponsored by Acĕlity. Tracking taxis thorough
the city with devices from Abeeway and the MicroChip development kits that were available for people to take and use on
the network aĥracted a lot of aĥenĕon. The MWC booth was sponsored by many members of this ecosystem: Acĕlity,
everynet, MicroChip, MulĕTech, MyDevices, Orbiwise, Semtech and Senet, who were all busy for the duraĕon with visitors
to the booth. The innovaĕve booth design was used in several news videos of MWC, especially the yellow cow!
"The LoRa Alliance is expanding its membership on a global scale and this first USA All Members Meeĕng and Open House
will demonstrate the reach of the Alliance," said Geoff Mulligan, chairman of the LoRa Alliance. "There will be an Asian All
Members Meeĕng later this year, confirming that the Alliance is now a global organizaĕon and that both driving the
adopĕon of the LoRaWAN standard and being inclusive to all of our members are our top prioriĕes."
The USA meeĕng for members will be held on the April 4‐5, and the non‐members open house will be held on April 6. All
are welcome. Event details and registraĕon links can be found on the Alliance website: hĥps://www.lora‐alliance.org.
There will be an update on the specificaĕon developments, a session on IoT security, a panel on IoT applicaĕons and the
exciĕng launch of our 2016 IoT Innovaĕon Challenge; the theme this year will be revealed at the event.
A LoRaWAN 101 training session using MicroChip development devices working on a live everynet network will enable
anyone at the event to learn about and how to use LoRaWAN. An open marketplace for our members to showcase their
products in the rapidly growing ecosystem will be combined with a networking recepĕon.
The first LoRa Alliance Hackathon will take place on the April 5; expectaĕons are high for some innovaĕve ideas to emerge
during the session. ARM, MulĕTech, Semtech and The Things Network will provide the tools and training to develop an
ARMR mbed‐based LoRa applicaĕon using the MulĕConnectRmDot LoRaWAN cerĕfied modules communicaĕng to The
Things Network plaĔorm.
A media event will be hosted on April 6. Interested parĕes should contact the Alliance for an invitaĕon.
About LoRa Alliance The LoRa. Alliance is an open, non‐profit associaĕon that has grown to more than 250 members
since its incepĕon in March 2015, becoming one of the largest and fastest growing alliances in the technology sector. Its
members are closely collaboraĕng and sharing their experience to promote the LoRaWAN. protocol as the leading open
global standard for secure, carrier‐grade IoT LPWA connecĕvity. With the technical flexibility to address mulĕple IoT
applicaĕons, both staĕc and mobile, and a cerĕficaĕon program to guarantee interoperability, the LoRaWAN. is already
being deployed by major mobile network operators and is anĕcipated to widely expand in 2016.
About LoRaWAN The technology uĕlized in a LoRaWAN network is designed to connect low‐cost, baĥery‐operated
sensors over long distances in harsh environments that were previously too challenging or cost prohibiĕve to connect. With
its unique penetraĕon capability, a LoRaWAN gateway deployed on a building or tower can connect to sensors more than
10 miles away or to water meters deployed underground or in basements. The LoRaWAN protocol offers unique and
unequaled benefits in terms of bi‐direcĕonality, security, mobility and accurate localizaĕon that are not addressed by other
LPWAN technologies. These benefits will enable the diverse use cases and business models that will enable deployments of
large scale LPWAN IoT networks globally.
Contact:
Tracy Hopkins, +44 (0) 7771766156
tracy.hopkins@lora‐alliance.org
Alliance
Technology
Developers
Testimonials
The LoRaWAN technology is ideal to target
battery operated sensors and low power
applications as a complement to M2M
cellular connectivity
Richard Viel
Chief Operating Officer of Bouygues
With LoRaWAN, entire cities or countries
can be covered with a few base stations,
no longer requiring the upfront rollout
and maintenance of thousands of nodes
as in traditional mesh networking. This has
made IoT possible now, with minimal
infrastructure investment.
Olivier Hersent
Chairman & CTO of Actility
To encourage the mass adoption of low
cost, long range machine-to-machine
connectivity, open ecosystems are critical.
In addition to IBM's support of the LoRA
Alliance we have also released the IBM
'LoRaWAN in C' as open source under the
Eclipse Public License.
Dr. Thorsten Kramp
Master Inventor, IBM Research
LoRaWAN has taken inteliLIGHT, our
already proven street lighting
management solution, to a whole new
level. The entire system becomes even
easier and faster to install, with a minimal
investment, unprecedented reach and
unlimited Smart City applications. It truly
is a game changer.
Mozes Lorand
CEO of FLASHNET
Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) Networks
are an excellent connectivity solution. They
complement well with existing M2M
business.
In order to deploy dedicated solutions and
sensors all around the world, an open
standard is needed to ensure
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