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LoRa Alliance ® and LoRaWAN ® are registered trademarks. Used with permission. ©2020 LoRa Alliance ® www.lora-alliance.org WHY LoRaWAN ® IS THE CONNECTIVITY PLATFORM FOR SMART CITY APPLICATIONS management of smart parking, and secu rity -related applications su ch as ilding su rv eillance, and access control and monitoring. av ing the deep indoor cov erage of LoRaWAN across a city sing a network that is owned the city means new applications can e added and serv ed ex tremely cost ef ectiv ely adding rther to the siness case or rolling ou t LoRaWAN. EXAMPLES As ex plained ab ov e, there is a wide portf olio of smart city applications that can e readily su pported city wide LoRaWAN cov erage. any of these make the siness case or LoRaWAN alone; howev er, many other applications can also e su pported at the same time. n addition, other applications may need to access cellu lar inf rastru ctu re to su pport their oS latency or throu ghou t needs. SMART PARKING A ropean city has rolled ou t a smart parking sy stem to redu ce the time spent driv ers searching or spaces and the environmental impact of circulating traffic that is looking to park. eing ab le to inf orm driv ers of the nearest av ailab le space, the city is ab le to increase rev enu e throu gh targeted rev enu e and redu ce illegal parking and instances where paid-f or parking time is ex ceeded. his initiativ e, which inv olv es placing sensors in each ay and commu nicating their statu s ov er LoRaWAN also ties into city initiativ es to encou rage electric ehicle se. he city knows more ab ou t ser hab its and theref ore can install charging points where they are most needed. n tu re, it is ex pected that the data gathered will enab le the city to perf orm more ef ectiv e parking management or sy locations. WASTE MANAGEMENT he task of empty ing garb age ins has traditionally een perf ormed city operativ es driv ing rou nd in tru cks to empty bins. This is inefficient, because some bins do not need empty ing as of ten as others, and some ins need to e emptied more req ently . ne city has radically increased the capacity of its ins creating large underfloor containers for the storage of waste and recy cling. his inf rastru ctu re req ires empty ing less of ten than small traditional ins, and has already sav ed the city 0% of its disposal trips. he sy stem relies on LoRaWAN' s elow-grou nd capacity to monitor underfloor waste storage capacity, and to commu nicate when it is nearing the time to e emptied. he city passes the sav ings directly on to the citiz en in the orm of redu ced local tax ation. LEISURE FACILITY MANAGEMENT A wiss city has deploy ed swimming pool sensors at its pools to inf orm sers of the temperatu res of its pools. The city also benefits because its workers do not need to manu ally measu re temperatu re and pH of the water. he temperatu re data is prov ided or citiz ens ia display s at pool entrances and the city s app.

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