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INTRODUCTION | The Power of LoRaWAN
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As I look back on 2020, the year was simply without prece-
dent. It saw the greatest acceleration of digital transformation
and automation in history. As the world looks to emerge from
COVID-19, the reality that this will not be the last pandemic
remains—and this means that every person, company and
government must be better prepared to manage unpredictable
and rapidly shifting landscapes.
In 2020, our members truly delivered the Power of LoRaWAN
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to address a multitude of global challenges. I cannot state
strongly enough how proud I am of the LoRa Alliance
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tem and what our members achieved to make their communi-
ties, businesses and the world at large safer and more produc-
tive. Members quickly jumped to action to bring solutions to
market as COVID-19 spread, showing how rapidly LoRaWAN
can be deployed and bring value to meet the world's challeng-
es. Our members were also very active in the LoRaWAN for
Good campaign, developing LoRaWAN solutions to support
the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
As 2020 was the LoRa Alliance's 5th anniversary, I also want to
extend my gratitude to all of our members who have invested
significant time and energy to develop the LoRaWAN standard,
certification program and market awareness. In particular, our
founding members deserve recognition for all of their sweat
and equity over the long haul to get us to this inflection point.
Thanks to our members' hard work, LoRaWAN is now rec-
ognized as the market-leading, industry-standard technology
for low-power wide-area networking. The LoRa Alliance and
LoRaWAN standard have come a long way during our orga-
nization's first five years. The achievements of our members
and improvements in the standard have laid the foundation for
LoRaWAN deployments to truly explode in 2021.
Regarding the LoRaWAN standard, one of our major goals
as an alliance has been focused on taking steps to achieve
zero-touch deployments, which are needed to enable mass
scale. Updates to the LoRaWAN Link Layer Specification
v1.0.4 Package focused on ensuring that it would provide
every element needed for easy development, certification
testing, and deployment. The specification is now delivered
as a complete package, and will further accelerate mass IoT
and support our members and end-users as they roll out
LoRaWAN solutions worldwide.
Donna Moore,
CEO & Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance
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