6/20/2017 LoRa Alliance All Members Meeting and Open House in Munich Drives LoRaWAN™ Global Adoption
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LoRa Alliance All Members Meeting And Open House In Munich Drives LoRaWAN™
Global Adoption
SAN RAMON, Calif. - July 5, 2016 - The LoRa Alliance, one of the fastest growing Internet of Things (IoT) alliances, having gained over 330
members since March 2015, today announced the next All Members Meeting and Open House in Munich, Germany, 19-21 July, hosted
by Digimondo, a national LoRaWAN network operator in Germany and a subsidiary of E.ON, a leading international energy supplier. The
meeting and open house will complement the U.S. event held in Santa Clara last March, and pave the way for an Asian event in Q4,
confirming how the Alliance is now a global organization and has reached far beyond its European origins.
Currently over 60,000 people are working on LoRaWAN solutions, there are nationwide deployment plans publicly announced for 17
countries, and there are live networks operating in more than 120 cities in the world, serving numerous IoT application verticals and
delivering an ROI for the end customers.
There have been more than 8,000 downloads of the open LoRaWAN specification 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 more than 120 end products and numerous gateway and network server options were showcased, and again last
week at MWC Shanghai.
Announcements this week from KPN on its national network in the Netherlands and SK Telecom's publically announced pricing models
for its network in Korea, plus the launch of Semtech's LoRaWAN geo-location solution at MWC Shanghai, confirm both commercially and
technically that LoRaWAN networks have moved beyond proof of concept deployments into a tangible offering for real IoT business.
"The LoRa Alliance is expanding its membership on a global scale and now the reach of the Alliance touches almost all continents in less
than 18 months," said Geoff Mulligan, chairman of the LoRa Alliance. "Our vision of an open standard for low power, carrier-grade IoT
connectivity and an open business model ensures that as a global organization there is the inherent scope for interoperability and
roaming between networks on a global scale. Driving the adoption of the LoRaWAN standard and being inclusive to all of our members
are our top priorities."
The All Members meeting will be held 19-20 July, and the non-members open house will be held 21 July. All are welcome. Event details
and registration links can be found on the Alliance website: https://www.lora-alliance.org.
The event is sponsored by host Digimondo and Platinum sponsor Actility, and Telent will host a Bavarian reception for the members.
The event will include:
an update on the specification developments;
a session on LoRaWAN and NB IoT;
a panel on IoT applications and business models;
a LoRaWAN 101 training session;
and a product showcase.
The LoRaWAN 101 training session using development devices working on a live network will enable anyone at the event to learn how
to use LoRaWAN.
The Open Marketplace, where our members showcase the products in our rapidly growing multi-vendor ecosystem, will this time also
offer an opportunity to see presentations as well as network with the companies and see their demonstrations.
A media event will be hosted on 21 July. Interested parties should contact the Alliance for an invitation. Places are limited so please
reply by return.
About LoRa™ Alliance
The LoRa™ Alliance is an open, non-profit association that has grown to more than 330 members since its inception in March 2015,
becoming one of the largest and fastest growing alliances in the technology sector. Its members are closely collaborating and sharing
their experience to promote the LoRaWAN™ protocol as the leading open global standard for secure, carrier-grade IoT LPWA
connectivity. With the technical flexibility to address multiple IoT applications, both static and mobile, and a certification program to
guarantee interoperability, the LoRaWAN™ is already being deployed by major mobile network operators and is anticipated to widely
expand in 2016.
About LoRaWAN™
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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