2027 Lorawan Roadmap Published - For Satellite IoT, Hybrid IoT, Easy IoT
RCRWirelessNews, Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
The LoRa Alliance, the association of companies steering the open LoRaWAN standard, has released a formal development roadmap to enhance features, simplify deployments, drive interoperability, and raise security.
The objective, invariably, is to multiply LoRaWAN deployments in new and existing enterprise IoT segments. The work puts a major focus on non-terrestrial network (NTN; satellite) connectivity and simpler device management, including with over-the-air updates and relay certification. There is also a focus on 'crypto-agility' and RFID over LoRaWAN.
The work splits broadly into five loose categories across four overlapping phases, which have informed the alliance's work and guided its focus for a decade already: from building networks in the 2015-2017 period, through connecting them in the 2018-2020 period, to making deployments on LoRaWAN networks easier during 2021-2023 and, now, making applications more easily scalable, in the period to 2027. The work streams have continued through the years, but the initial phases focused on the physical / link layer, certifications, and core network management.