Semtech Corporation has launched a joint initiative with Lacuna Space to further increase the coverage and resilience of LoRaWAN connectivity.
UK-based Lacuna Space provides low-cost, easy-to-implement and highly reliable global connections to sensors and mobile equipment. The Lacuna network is a very low-cost, ubiquitous tracking and sensing service for short data messages. The network works anywhere, anytime, so companies can focus on using data from sensors or monitoring the status of assets in motion.
The collaboration between the two companies is based on Long Range Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (LR-FHSS), the latest major addition to the LoRaWAN standard, which takes up less space on the network and provides future-proof capabilities while maintaining low power consumption characteristics. This, in turn, enables cost-effective and simple satellite IoT platforms.
"We now have trials and demonstrations underway in many countries and regions of the world that were previously thought to be irreversibly inaccessible to the IoT. Our collaboration with Semtech and the enablement of its LR-FHSS device accelerates the adoption of IoT for a safer, more resilient and resource-efficient world," said Rob Spurrett, CEO of Lacuna Space. "With this collaboration, we expect to begin commercialisation as early as the first half of 2022."
Marc Pégulu, vice president of IoT product marketing and strategy for Semtech's Wireless and Sensing Products Group, explains: "The addition of LR-FHSS to the LoRaWAN standard further increases the capacity and resilience of ubiquitous connectivity. Lacuna's application of this affordable and simplified technology will further expand access to connectivity through their satellite technology".
Semtech's LoRa device-to-Cloud platform is a long range, low-power solution now widely adopted globally for IoT applications, enabling rapid development and deployment of cost-effective, ultra-low-power IoT networks, gateways, sensors and product modules, and IoT services worldwide.
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