Dutch operator, KPN announced that it has expanded the LoRa Internet-of-Things(IoT) to cover the entire Randstad, including the Schiphol region. KPN targets to roll out the network to cover the entire country by June 2016.
The operator said the first applications based on its LoRa IoT has gone live in South Holland, North Holland and parts of Utrecht, Zeeland, North Brabant and Groningen.
In the run-up to the national coverage of the IoT network, KPN organizes several LoRa Roadshows in different regions of the Netherlands. It is already experimenting the low power IoT network at the Schiphol Airport with different LoRa applications, including logistic processes such as baggage handling and facility services at the airport.
Christiaan them, Innovation Manager at Schiphol
We are a company with a large asset base so there is a lot of "smart". Why run now several experiments at Schiphol which looks at various applications and the use of different networks including Lora.
Jasper Snijder, Director of New Business for KPN
By Lora network of KPN we want to play a major role with connectivity and additional services such as data management, which further bring our customers.
