LoRa Alliance

LoRa Alliance is open non-profit organization.

Organization mission – standardization of low-power networks WAN (Low Power Wide Area Network - LPWAN) which deployment will help to implement solutions of Internet of Things, the intercomputer communications, solutions for the reasonable cities and other applications of an industrial class.

LoRa technology

LoRa is reduction from Long Range. Long-range communication with low power consumption. Can work in five kilometers from the base station. For example, to cover the area in the Third Ring Road in Moscow one base station in the Kremlin suffices.

The sensor can work on one battery up to ten years. So literally - delivered the smoke detector in the forest and forgot about it and if the fire – it beeps. Besides communication works in not licensed range (as WiFi), i.e. everyone can put to itself(himself) the base station and not depend on mobile operators.

LoRa - one of a set of technologies of the LPWAN trying to achieve success in IoT. It competes with OnRamp, Sigfox, Telensa and others in the unlicensed ranges and also with networks of Nb-IoT and Cat-M mobile operators.

Members of alliance

For March 23, 2015 among members of LoRa Alliance:

• FastNet
• IBM
• Semtech
• Senet

2020: The number of the devices of Internet of Things connected in Russia on LoRa technology exceeded one million

In October, 2020 one million devices in Russia it both is a lot of and not really. From Internet of Things years five wait for revolutionary changes. And they though occur, but slowly, little by little. And while approach of an era of a 5G in Russia everything is removed and removed, the LoRa technology has an opportunity to take the market. Especially as an open architecture – it is possible to develop the domestic equipment (as in a 5G – on architecture of OpenRAN), to build in domestic enciphering, etc.

Moreover, all this already works. It is just that area where import substitution won - the vast majority of the installed LoRa-devices is already made in our country.

2018: More than 100 networks worldwide

The alliance LoRa in December, 2018 overcame a symbolical boundary: more than 100 network operators developed private and public networks LoRaWAN in more than 100 countries of the world. The largest growth was observed in the Pacific Rim (30%) and Europe (50%). This year the organization is going to expand programs of certification and testing to simplify deployment which, allegedly, already covers millions of the final^[1][2].

Global map of a covering of LoRaWAN Source: LoRa Alliance, 2019

In 2019 the Alliance intends to unroll the certified stack of the software and new opportunities of preliminary testing that suppliers could check the products before sending in ​​ the test center. It is also aimed at adding to the certified set for modules a test set of radio frequencies and battery life and also additional regional parameters.

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