Semtech and ZTE Launch IoT Demonstration Bases for LoRa Tech in China

Semtech Corporation, a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, and ZTE Corporation, an international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile Internet, have together formally announced the launch of ZTE’s first IoT Demonstration Base dedicated to LoRa Technology in Nanjing, China.

This testing platform allows IoT solution providers to deploy and test applications over a low power, wide area network (LPWAN). ZTE said it plans to deploy more than 30 bases across China by the end of this year.

“IoT has tremendous potential to improve the quality of life for the citizens of China,” said Liu Jianye, Secretary-General, China LoRa Application Alliance (CLAA). “By working together with our solution providers, government agencies, and educational institutions to create an IoT Demonstration Base which have deployed more than 20 applications based on LoRa Technology for the CLAA network, we believe we can accelerate the adoption of LoRaWAN-based IoT solutions across the country. We currently have more than 210 solution providers committed to using Semtech’s LoRa Technology to enable IoT applications in a broad range of markets. Our goal is to continue to expand this ecosystem and to work together with Semtech to make LoRa Technology and the IoT a success throughout China.”     

Semtech and ZTE are members of the LoRa Alliance, a group of more than 400 companies committed to driving and enhancing the LoRaWAN specification to ensure interoperability and scalability of LPWANs and IoT applications. Through its work with member companies and IoT industry groups, the LoRa Alliance is making LoRaWAN the standard for LPWANs focused on low-power, long-range IoT applications. To date, there are LoRaWAN public and private networks in more than 50 countries worldwide.

“ZTE has done a remarkable job in building the IoT Demonstration Base in Nanjing, and we are honored to have been invited to speak at the China LoRa IoT Summit to formally launch the site,” said Marc Pegulu, VP and GM, Wireless and Sensing Product Group, Semtech. “The breadth of IoT use cases that will be on display at CLIS is impressive and shows how instrumental ZTE’s leadership has already been in establishing a growing ecosystem of IoT solution providers in China using LoRa Technology.”