LoRaWAN Becomes the DE Facto Standard for the Global Internet of Things Industry?

“Technology-driven production, market validation”; Among the many emerging technologies of the Internet of things, has LoRaWAN become the DE facto standard of the global Internet of things?

The author believes that after entering 2019, LoRa has already become a mainstream Internet of things connection technology from the feedback of the global market, and LoRaWAN can fully be called the DE facto standard of Internet of things, especially LPWAN. The Internet of things should not be used in a fancy way, and enterprises are not experimental fields. It is essential to solving practical problems on the ground. Otherwise, no matter how promising the prospects are and how awesome the technology is, it will be “PPT” after all. Therefore, it is not difficult to see from the three aspects of “ecological development, landing support and independent innovation” that LoRaWAN has become the standard of the global Internet of things.

With more than 90 million LoRa nodes, the DE facto standard for the global Internet of things has been established?

 LoRaWAN industry ecological group is large and continues to expand

Firstly, from the technical ecology: LoRa is a physical layer modulation technology, which can be used in different protocols, such as LoRaWAN protocol, CLAA network protocol, LoRa private network protocol, LoRa data transmission. Depending on the protocol used, the final product and business shape will vary.

At the same time, the LoRaWAN protocol is a low-power wan protocol promoted by the LoRa alliance. Meanwhile, the LoRa Alliance has standardized LoRaWAN to ensure that LoRa networks in different countries are interoperable. Up to now, the LoRaWAN standard has established the complete ecological chain of “LoRa chip – module – sensor – base station or gateway – network service – application service”.

Secondly, from the data results, the author participated in the “LoRa Ecological Development and Innovative Applications Conference” hosted by Semtech on April 11. Semtech, VP and wireless and sensing products division general manager Alistair Fulton provide data show that the current global deployed more than 90 million, LoRa node in network deployment, more than 70 countries, more than 100 network operators deployed LoRa network, and LoRa market volume of recent years has been maintained more than double the rate of growth. Thus, LoRa has become a mainstream Internet of things connection technology selected by the market, and LoRaWAN has also become the DE facto standard for the Internet of things, especially for low-power wan.

Thirdly, in terms of scale, the Semtech company of the United States is the main promoter of the LoRa technology application globally. In order to promote other companies to participate in LoRa ecology, Semtech co-founded the LoRa alliance with Actility, Cisco, IBM and other manufacturers in February 2015. After four years of development, the LoRa Alliance has more than 500 members worldwide.

The Chinese market is a very important part of LoRa’s global ecological construction. In 2018, Internet giants such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Jingdong joined the LoRa alliance as the highest level members. Meanwhile, LoRa ecological partners such as Kela technology, local radio, and television, Zhejiang Unicom and Unicom Internet of things also began to actively deploy LoRa network in various regions. It can be seen that LoRa has formed a huge ecosystem of operators (China Unicom, China tower, etc.), Internet giants (Ali, Tencent, Jingdong, etc.), solution providers, module providers and gateway manufacturers in China. The addition of operators and Internet giants undoubtedly injected a “booster” into the LoRa industry. Here, we take Alibaba, Tencent and China Unicom as examples to analyze and explain.

Aliyun has developed the LinkWAN Internet of things platform supporting the LoRa protocol, and can also provide rich LoRa products such as LoRa node equipment and LoRa gateway. In addition, Ali has invested in Aoljie technology (ASR), Zhongtian micro and other chip enterprises. To promote LoRa’s expansion in China, Alibaba has built LoRa networks in Hangzhou and Ningbo, which are ready for commercial use.

Tencent has established a LoRaWAN network in Shenzhen with local partners to provide integrated LoRaWAN solutions from equipment, edge to cloud for various Internet of things applications and end-users (such as government public services), supporting the further development of LoRaWAN ecosystem.

Modularization transformation to accelerate the landing rate of LoRa applications

Due to its low power consumption, long transmission distance, flexible networking, and many other characteristics, LoRa is in line with the fragmented, low-cost and large-connection requirements of the Internet of things. Therefore, it is widely deployed in many vertical industries such as smart communities, smart homes and buildings, smart meters, smart agriculture, and smart logistics.

However, after several years of development of LPWAN, propaganda concepts such as “low power consumption, long-distance, large connection and low cost” have become the industry consensus. It is better to keep pace with The Times and accelerate the large-scale implementation process of the Internet of things industry than to insist on such propaganda. As the prime mover of LoRa ecology, Semtech uses a modular combination of cores and clouds to accelerate the LoRa industry’s landing process. In March, Semtech launched a new Lora-based solution platform that includes developer building blocks, cloud services, and managed hardware. It also provides a set of development accelerators and LoRa Cloud geolocation services to streamline and simplify the LoRa-based Internet of things application development, deployment and management.

Semtech applies the modularization principle of “lego thinking” to the deployment and landing of LoRa applications, greatly reducing the difficulty of development and deployment of authorized chip developers and solutions, and fully improving the independent innovation ability of enterprises. This module combination simplifies the deployment of LoRa applications from the aspects of LoRa chip development, LoRa Cloud service and hardware management, so as to improve the large-scale lending rate of LoRa applications.

First of all, the LoRa chip is at the core of the LoRa ecological chain, and Semtech is the core supplier of the LoRa chip, holding the core patent of LoRa’s underlying technology. Semtech’s “developer building blocks” will improve developer productivity from the very core.

Secondly, it is an extremely complicated process from the production of chips to the real application of terminal products. Different businesses often only need some functions of chips. Therefore, in order to reduce the difficulty of multiple integrations of solution providers, the “unit modules” provided by LoRa Cloud can greatly improve the deployment process of solution providers.

Finally, Semtech’s modem-based LoRa hardware simplifies the difficulty of hardware platforms deployed and managed by solution vendors.

It is worth noting that the LoRa Cloud geo-location service will expand LoRa’s application scenarios. Is the LoRa Cloud location service a real requirement? As is known to all, the positioning accuracy is proportional to power consumption. To solve the power consumption problem, LoRa Cloud’s positioning is connected to the application platform through the gateway, and the application platform decoding to realize the positioning.

At present, the positioning accuracy based on LoRa in urban areas is about 70m to 180m, and the positioning in open areas is about 50m or less. However, Semtech’s cloud-based location service does not only support the LoRa location. LoRa Cloud geolocation service enables developers to quickly build the Internet of things solutions with multi-mode location functions (including wi-fi, GNSS and LoRaWAN-based geolocation).

Cattle, sheep and management for logistics management, for example, the positioning demand for accuracy is not high, using low power consumption of LoRa positioning can meet the demand, but can’t ignore the GNSS (global navigation satellite positioning system (GPS) is currently the main force of the Internet of things market positioning, integration of GNSS and wi-fi location can meet more the demand of the market, increasing LoRa Cloud appeal.

Conclusion: in terms of market and technology maturity, LoRa’s more mature and flexible networking is more suitable for the current Internet of things application scenarios, and LoRaWAN’s becoming the fact standard of the global Internet of things is also the result of the industry’s tendency to mature.

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