Four big names in industries utilizing the power of IoT and LPWAN – Semtech, Actility, Arad Group, and Deviceroy. Each of these companies, an active member of the LoRa Alliance, an open, non-profit association with the mission to promote and support the global adoption of the LoRaWAN standard.
Together, one big-time collab…
(Sounds a bit like a sports or action movie trailer with an LoRaWAN twist.)
Here are the details:
Together, these four companies actioned the world’s first commercial implementation of (and successful end-to-end interoperability test for) a new, innovative relay feature utilizing LoRaWAN connectivity.
This cutting-edge advancement enables LoRaWAN packets from remote or isolated (or hard-to-reach) devices to be relayed by battery-operated relay nodes. According to the official announcement, this coverage extension “is provided through an already low-cost solution, further lowering the TCO of LoRaWAN deployment.” Experts believe that this relay feature will be a game-changer for LoRaWAN-based use cases like water, gas, and electricity metering. (i.e. where stringent SLAs demand consistent, cost-efficient coverage for all devices within a geographical footprint)
Now, how each of the four companies is harnessing the relay feature:
In successfully completing interoperability testing and achieving reliable end-to-end bidirectional communication with devices that can connect only through a LoRaWAN-based relay, the reliability and seamlessness of the relay feature in real-world scenarios means big things for, well, the Internet of Things and other industries.