Moo! LoRaWAN makes it easier to connect more things to the low power networking protocol—even cattle
The growth of AI across all sectors has led to an increased demand to connect even more things.
The growth of AI across all sectors has led to an increased demand to connect even more things.
The short version
- That’s an area where LoRaWAN, the low-power networking protocol, is making significant inroads as all manner of industries are trying to bridge the gap between the physical world and the digital one.
- LoRaWAN now connects more than 125 million devices worldwide and is increasingly adding deployments that might seem unexpected to the average person.
- LoRa Alliance CEO Alper Yegin pointed to livestock monitoring as one example, citing a member company running more than 1 million solar-powered, LoRaWAN-connected cattle collars.
What happened
The LoRa Alliance is now publishing two new specifications and one technical guidance document. Together they target a pair of persistent deployment problems: manual device onboarding and coverage gaps in hard-to-reach locations.
Why it matters
TS014 : An API that lets a network automatically pull a new device’s capability profile from a centralized server instead of requiring manual configuration.
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