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® 10 END OF YEAR REPORT 2021 Approved for distribution outside of the LoRa Alliance ® ® CERTIFICATION UPDATES Leveraging the foresight of our members, partners and staff in building the foundation of the LoRaWAN ® certification program, we are now uniquely poised to take it to the next level—which is to ensure that the LoRaWAN end-device ecosystem delivers the interoperability and consistency required for scaling to meet the needs and demands of IoT. Our members have provided certified solutions to the market that have not only solved challenges during the pandemic, they've also solved so much more for IoT defining the path forward for long-range, low-power communication. 2021 was yet another great growth year for LoRaWAN, with an increase of 33% in end-device certifications. The volume of LoRaWAN end-devices in the market based on the end- devices certified is significant, with analysts predicting several hundred million in only a few years. Our certification program is maturing rapidly, and its velocity of development (reference implementations, code and test spec development) is increasing at an incredible rate due to the intellectual mindshare within the alliance membership generally and certification program specifically. To achieve scale, it has been our continued focus on simplifying our certification program by consolidating our policies and procedures, increasing our development pace and advancing the scope of certification. Much of our concerted focus last year was spent on enhancing the LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT), ensuring its readiness to be the sole tool for both precertification at a member's lab and the official test lab certification tool used at LoRaWAN Authorized Test Houses (ATHs). Today, the LCTT covers all regions addressed by the current Regional Parameters version 1.0.3, which includes EU 863- 870, US 902-928, CN 779-787, CN 470-510, EU 433, AS 923- 1/-2/-3, KR 920-923, IN 865-867, AU 915-928 and RU 864-870, as well as all Layer 2 version 1.0.4 Classes (A, B and C), Certification-by-Similarity, Back-off Retransmission (polluting devices) testing and the new long-range frequency hopping spread spectrum physical layer (LR-FHSS). Certification is a must for any global standard to be successful and to scale. By continuously enhancing our certification program, we ensure our certification testing tools are robust while also minimizing the time and cost required for end-device manufacturers to certify. The importance of certification will only grow in the coming years; RFPs and tenders for IoT deployments are increasingly requiring LoRaWAN certification. Our efforts will remain focused on strengthening and growing our certification to make it easier than ever for end-device manufacturers to validate reliability and interoperability. This, in turn, will enable massive scale and consumer confidence in deployments.