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11 Nov Discover the Secrets of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) Networks

Posted at 04:00h in 1. IOT COMPONENTS, 2. SERVICE PROVIDERS, 4. MARKET, COMMERCIAL IOT, INDUSTRIAL IOT, INFRASTRUCTURE IOT, MEDIA, Network Equipment, Season 1 Podcasts, Vendor

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Episode 34

I’m sold. In fact I’ve been sold since early 2014 when I first started digging into the emerging Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) market. I’m sold not because it’s cool tech – I’m sold because its affordable. The price makes business sense for a wide range of IoT use cases – some we’re familiar with and others we haven’t even considered yet due to current cost structures.
Listen to this podcast (or read the transcript) with Hardy Schmidbauer of the LoRa Alliance and Thomas Nicholls of Sigfox about what LPWA is and the different ways it’s sold ...

08 Dec A Radical Rupture from the Past in Wide Area Networking

Posted at 08:00h in 1. IOT COMPONENTS, COMMERCIAL IOT, INDUSTRIAL IOT, INFRASTRUCTURE IOT, Network Equipment, Vendor, Videos

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SIGFOX is a Wide Area Network operator for low bandwidth devices. The fundamental costs of any network operator are:

Leasing space on base stations
Buying spectrum from the FCC
Upstream connectivity

Watch this video (or read the transcript) to see how a radical change to the values in the traditional operator business model can transform the cost structure of a wide swath of IoT applications ...