Smart Cities will be one of the biggest application areas for LoRaWAN By CIOReviewIndia Team

Smart Cities will be one of the biggest application areas for LoRaWAN

CIOReviewIndia Team | Tuesday, 29 October 2019, 13:18 IST

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CIOReviewIndia TeamAccording to Global Market Insights, the Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) market is expected to grow from more than $1.5 billion to over $65 billion by 2025. As LPWAN networks are expanding to meet IoT connectivity demands, India is looking to create 4,000 smart towns and cities across the country as government’s mission of enabling 100 smart cities in the country is now readying themselves for the second phase of the program – Smart City Mission 2.0. However, this will require huge investments in both networks and the eco-system, i.e. from chips and devices to applications and services. LoRaWAN Live conference which was held in New Delhi past week also revolved round the same - implementing everything from smart water metering and smart agriculture to smart parking for an overall smart city, under the theme of “Smart Tech for a Smart Sustainable Planet.” Even, the cellular network operators in the country are actively participating to launch their own internet of things (IoT) networks and platforms across the country, major companies being Reliance Industries, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea.   

Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance said in the conference that there is no single technology which exactly befits the needs of the billions of connected IoT devices. Even, Sushil Kumar, director general and IoT head at Indian Department of Telecommunications agreed on the same, saying that, different standards ranging from LoRaWAN to NB-IoT and 5G cannot exist in silos and have to compliment each-other, so as to meet the requirements.    

“With the smart city it usually starts with an anchor case - maybe smart water reading, which tends to be one of the key anchor cases. Once the network is in and the anchor case is out there, they are seeing a return on investment and managing the resource, and then you can continue to add and add on that same network multiple use cases - anything from parking to water quality to air quality to traffic. It’s a never-ending list of use cases that help reduce the cost of the network because you are adding and adding more resources and more things to monitor for the city,” said Doona Moore in the conference.

 It can be justified that not only verticals such as smart buildings, agriculture and industrial IoT, but, Smart Cities is one of the biggest application areas for LoRaWAN.

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