Trends and Opportunities

HaLow is a technology using the IEEE 802.11ah standard; the industry refers to it as “Wi-Fi HaLow.” HaLow has the advantage of operating in the sub-GHz radio frequency range (902MHz–926MHz)—much lower than traditional Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz)—and uses narrower channels than traditional Wi-Fi. It is often described as a technology that looks specially into IoT t as an enable for a variety of new use cases in industrial, agricultural, smart building and smart city.

A forecast by IDC estimates that there will be 41.6 billion IoT devices in 2025, capable of generating 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data. In Maravedis Research’s Wi-Fi predictions for 2023, it is expected that HaLow looks better placed indoors (smart homes) and remains to be seen if it can challenge those LPWAN protocols for outdoor applications that require only low bit rates, such as smart metering and environmental monitoring.

Business Benefits

With the positive growth of IoT devices shipment and the current market fragmentation, Wi-Fi takes a stand and helps industries, including chipset vendors, Wi-Fi HaLow infrastructure vendors, IoT & Wireless device OEMs, ISP & operators and vertical sector enterprises,  across the world benefit from a well-known access technology, and equipment that are already installed in place.

This project evaluates Wi-Fi HaLow technology with use cases to examine its values with other unlicensed IoT technologies for the low-power, long-range slice of the market.

Expected Deliverables

This project identifies use cases and test scenarios for Wi-Fi HaLow across main vertical marketing. It assembles vertical test beds and trial cases to showcase optimal technical usage and implementation with thorough analysis of the test results.