Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® Trials – An Overview of Use Cases Across Regions Combining Two Powerful Technologies” whitepaper illustrates the selection of an intelligent multi-radio strategy is the key successful factor in the connected world. This paper provides guidance on best practices for deployments, including the practicalities of network planning, multi-radio access network (RAN) access points, and sensors.
Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and LoRa Alliance ® have worked together to provides details on practical trials and proof of concept deployments (POCs), representing a variety of uses cases implemented across different geographies and verticals. It concludes that hybrid Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN connectivity increases market opportunity provides a strong ROI, and offers enhanced network solutions.
Covered use cases include:
- Smart Buildings Multi-Family Dwellings (Boingo Wireless, United States)
- Smart City: Smart Light Pole (Charter Communications, United States)
- Smart Interconnection: OpenRoaming ™ & LoRaWAN (ORL) (Cisco, Sweden)
- Smart City: Energy Management and People Attendance Monitoring (Simplycity, Australia)
- Smart City: Interoperability between Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN at the Network Level (Nesten, Skyhook, United States)
- Smart Retail: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN In-Store Retail Analytics (Kerlink, Smart Traffik, The Netherlands)
- Smart Tracking: Tracking with LoRa Edge ™ and Satellites to Resolve Human-Wildlife Conflict (Lacuna Space, IRNAS and Smart Parks, South Africa)
- Smart Transportation: Asset Tracking for the Automotive Industry (Actility, Abeeway, Volvo, France)
This paper builds on the two organizations’ earlier work, “Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN Deployment Synergies: Expanding Addressable Use Cases for the Internet of Things,” which compared the two technologies theoretically and sought to demonstrate how they could be utilized to effectively support a vast array of use cases.
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