#2015CES: New LoRa alliance to enable worldwide mobility for the Internet of Things

Las Vegas, Jan. 7,2015: Fresh developments from the 2015CEA event. Industry leaders, it seems, plan to form the LoRa Alliance, creating the largest, most powerful consolidated effort to enable the Internet of Things (IoT).

An information session hosted by the prospective founding members on this front will be held later this week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The LoRa Alliance mission is to standardise Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) being deployed around the world to enable the IoT, Machine-to-Machine (M2M), smart city and industrial applications.

The prospective initial Alliance members include leading IoT solution providers: Actility, Cisco, Eolane, IBM, Kerlink, IMST, MultiTech, Sagemcom, Semtech, and Microchip Technology, as well as lead telecom operators: Bouygues Telecom, KPN, SingTel, Proximus, Swisscom, and FastNet (part of Telkom South Africa).

IoT AllianceThe LoRa technology enables public or multi-tenant networks to connect multiple applications into the same network infrastructure, which will enable new applications for IoT, M2M, smart city, sensor networks and industrial automation applications. Device manufacturers and developers are proposing solutions at a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) with longer battery lifetime that often do not need a powerful cellular connection. The LoRa Alliance with the highly efficient LoRaWAN protocol will enable new business models, making IoT more attractive to customers and end users. Projected IoT volumes can only be reached with a global approach to drive TCO lower.

The LoRa Alliance is accepting new members and is open to the application ecosystems.

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