The world's population is increasingly moving to cities, which has kicked off a quest to use smart city technologies to build sustainable infrastructure and provide greater efficiency. Smart city technologies are one way that governments and municipalities provide the sustainable services required to meet urban influx effectively. Read more
Semtech Corp. has collaborated with Helium Inc., creator of one of the world’s first peer-to-peer wireless networks, to develop a network based on its long-range, low-power, or LoRa, technology. Read more
For most people and businesses, the internet of things is still limited to a home, building, or campus network. If you want your device to work outside of a pre-determined space, then you have to rely on cellular, with all of the costs it entails. And while it makes sense to give a car a 4G modem and perhaps to buy a data plan, it's a much tougher sell to get people to buy an expensive device and pay a monthly fee for something like a mailbox sensor or a pet tracker. Read more
Semtech, the company behind LoRa technology, is collaborating with Helium in its efforts to develop one of the largest LoRa-based networks in North America. Read more
LoRa is a modulation technique for specific wireless spectrum, while LoRaWAN is an open protocol that enables IoT devices to use LoRa for communication. Read more
In 2020, IoT-enabled smart building solutions that leverage connected sensors will influence how smart building vendors rethink their business models to take full advantage of this technology. Read more
Semtech Corporation, a supplier of analogue and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced LoRa Edge, a versatile and low power software defined LoRa based platform. Read more