{"id":6441,"date":"2015-11-19T13:09:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T12:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gsm-modem.de\/M2M\/?p=6441"},"modified":"2016-11-19T18:52:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T17:52:26","slug":"lpwan-in-iot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gsm-modem.de\/M2M\/m2m-news\/lpwan-in-iot\/","title":{"rendered":"LPWAN in IoT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does LPWAN in IoT have a clear direction?<\/h2>\n
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LPWAN in IoT<\/p><\/div>\n

Origin post in November 2015. <\/strong>Now<\/strong> we<\/em> are 12 months later and nothing has changed.\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em>
\n“Just follow the signs”. We heard that all roads lead to Rome. In LPWAN, unfortunately, the roads lead in different directions: one path leads to Sigfox; The next way leads to LoRa and further divides into LoRaWAN and other directions; another path leads to LTE-Cat-M1 with a junction to LTE-Cat-NB1; yet another way leads to Weightless where the road forks to Weightless-N, Weightless-P and Weightless-W.<\/p>\n

It is not so easy to take the right path. With the press release of Huawei and Deutsche Telekom in summer 2015 the LPWAN map comes even more confusing:<\/p>\n

Deutsche Telekom and Huawei fudge truth, claim first 3GPP NB-IoT demo:<\/h2>\n
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Having forced the different proponents to work together in the NB-IoT working group, the 3GPP\u2019s attempt at uniting the cellular-led LPWAN alternative to the likes of Sigfox and LoRa is beginning to bear (politically-charged) fruit. Huawei and Deutsche Telekom have announced the first installation of the NB-IoT (narrowband IoT) technology on a commercial European network \u2013 and they aren\u2019t being completely honest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: http:\/\/rethink-iot.com\/2015\/10\/30\/deutsche-telekom-and-huawei-fudge-truth-claim-first-3gpp-nb-iot-demo\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Which path will you choose? What way should you recommend to your clients? Will you recommend SigFox, LoRa, Weightless,\u00a0 or the new direction signalled by the NB-IoT Working Group LTE-Cat-NB1, LTE-Cat-M1?
\nCurrently neither Sigfox, LTE-Cat-NB1 or LTE-Cat-M1 or can deliver radio modules plus base stations for a private network. So if you want to cover a city or a larger region with a private network then your path ends at LoRa or Weightless P for now . If you are interested in a private LPWAN, then I’ll show you the best way and make you a commercial proposal.<\/p>\n

And if you are interested in other \u201cold\u201d common radio technologies like 2G, 3G, 4G, BT Wi-Fi have then I am looking forward to your inquiry to harald.naumann (at) gsm-modem.de because I can offer you a solution for these as well.<\/p>\n