6/20/2017 LoRa® Alliance's First All Members Meeting and Open House in Asia Continues to Drive LoRaWAN™ Global Adoption
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LoRa® Alliance's First All Members Meeting And Open House In Asia Continues To
Drive LoRaWAN™ Global Adoption
SAN RAMON, Calif. - September 26, 2016 - The LoRa Alliance, which has recruited over 400 members since launching in March 2015, is
bringing its All Members Meeting and Open House to Asia for the first time. The event will be held in Seoul, Korea, 11-13 October, and is
hosted by SK Telecom, a national LoRaWAN network operator in Korea, and sponsored by Actility, a global leader in technology and
business solutions for the LPWA Internet of Things. The meeting and open house will complement the U.S. event held in Santa Clara in
March, and the European event held in Munich in July, demonstrating that the rapidly growing Alliance is now a global organization
reaching far beyond its European origins.
Currently over 60,000 people are working on LoRaWAN solutions worldwide. There are nationwide deployment plans publicly
announced for 17 countries, and there are live networks operating in more than 150 cities in the world, serving numerous IoT
application verticals and delivering real-world ROI for the end customers.
There have been more than 9,000 downloads of the open LoRaWAN specification for secure, carrier-grade low power wide area
networks, which has laid the foundation for a mature and developed ecosystem. This maturity was clearly demonstrated at CTIA 2016 in
Las Vegas last month, where more than 150 LoRaWAN end products and numerous gateway and network server options were
showcased.
Announcements this week from Softbank, Orange, and the UK government with BT confirm that both commercially and technically,
LoRaWAN networks have moved beyond proof-of-concept deployments into tangible offerings for real IoT business and are
contributing to driving the digital economy of many countries.
"The LoRa Alliance is expanding its membership on a global scale. The reach of the Alliance touches almost all continents only 18
months after its launch," said Geoff Mulligan, chairman of the LoRa Alliance. "We are extremely excited to hold our first member
meeting and open house in Asia and are very pleased to have SK Telecom as our host. Our vision of an open standard for low power,
carrier-grade IoT connectivity that offers interoperability and roaming between networks worldwide, combined with an open business
model, ensures that LoRaWAN is the LPWA solution of choice. This is being endorsed daily by our rapidly growing ecosystem.
"This meeting in Asia demonstrates our growing member ecosystem in the region where we have over 84 members, including SK
Telecom, ZTE, Softbank, Foxconn, Augteck, Gemtek, many companies making end devices, and both academic and institutional
members," Mulligan said.
The All Members Meeting will be held 11-12 October, and the non-members open house will be held 13 October. All are welcome. Event
details and registration links can be found on the Alliance website: https://www.lora-alliance.org.
There will be an update on the specification developments, a session on LPWA in APAC, a panel on IoT applications and business
models and a lot more.
A 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 in Seoul, where our members will showcase the products in our rapidly growing multi-vendor ecosystem, will
also offer an opportunity to see presentations as well as to network with the companies and see their demonstrations.
Our members will also be available in the LoRa Alliance Pavilion at IoT Week Korea.
http://www.iotweek.kr/2016/eng/main.asp
A media event will be hosted on 13 October. 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 400 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
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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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