The LoRa Alliance has unveiled its LoRaWAN R1.0 specification for public use, available for download from the LoRa Alliance website. The release is expected to drive the adoption of the LoRaWAN Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) and guarantee interoperability in one open carrier grade global network, catalyzing network deployments and enabling certified sensor manufacturing around the world.
According tothe LoRa Alliance, the LoRaWAN network architecture is a typical star-of-stars topology in which the gateways are a transparent bridge relaying messages between end-devices and a central network server. Gateways are connected to the network server via standard IP connections, while end-devices use single-hop wireless communication to one or many gateways. LoRaWAN which operates on data rates ranging from 0.3 kbps to 50 kbps is designed to maximize both the battery life of the end-devices, enhance network capacity and promote ease of deployment.
Nicolas Sornin, Chair of the LoRa Alliance Technical Committeen
We are delighted and very proud to have finally achieved this important milestone of opening LoRaWAN to the general public. The LoRa Alliance is a strong believer in open standards, enabling cooperation between the driving forces of the IoT industrial leaders and Mobile Network Operators. Having end customers, sensors, equipment manufactures and telecom operators contributing to the standard has ensured that all of the shared knowledge and ecosystem needs are included in the specification.
Ståle Pettersen, Acting Chair of the LoRa Alliance
With this release, LoRaWAN R1.0; is the most comprehensive and adopted specification in LPWAN’s and is now publicly available to benefit the LoRa community and the IoT industry. Maintaining telecom grade technology while providing managed, secure, bi-directional communication and location enabled services using a simple coin cell battery is simply impressive.
