Articles
The Difference Between Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
Explanations of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning and how they’re all different. Plus, how AI and IoT are inextricably connected.
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How to Choose the Best IoT Platform
Despite the great variance in IoT applications, here are some common elements that are critical to consider when evaluating the best IoT platform for you.
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How Does an IoT Solution Actually Work?
IoT resources are often highly technical and confusing, so for many it isn't clear how an IoT solution actually works. Here's IoT explained in simple terms.
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Types of Network Connectivity for the Internet of Things (IoT) - A Simple Explanation
When it comes to the Internet of Things, there are an overwhelming number of connectivity types. Here's everything important to know about IoT connectivity.
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How Does an IoT Solution Actually Work? Part 2 - Edge Computing
IoT resources are often highly technical and confusing, so for many it isn't clear how an IoT solution actually works. Here's IoT explained in simple terms.
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IoT Simulation - Why Simulation is a Critical Component to IoT Systems
Simulation is critical across industries like finance, engineering, the military, and more. IoT simulation is just as critical.
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A Primer for LoRa/LoRaWAN
What’s so special about this LPWAN technology backed by Cisco, Actility, IBM, Kerlink, Orange, and SK Telecom?
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LPWAN - The Benefits of LPWAN Technology vs. Other IoT Connectivity Options
Part one of the definitive guide to LPWAN. We provide a brief overview of LPWAN plus its benefits compared to other IoT connectivity options.
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Unlicensed LTE Explained - LTE-U vs. LAA vs. LWA vs. Multefire
Unlicensed LTE represents part of the evolution track to 5G. The various emerging technologies include LTE-U, LAA, LWA, and Multefire, all explained here.
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Prototyping a Dynamic Indoor Positioning Solution
In this white paper, Leverege's R&D team shares how they have developed a particle-filter-based Location Engine and a powerful indoor positioning solution.
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Top Challenges to Successful IoT Initiatives — And How to Overcome Them
Calum McClelland, Director of Projects at Leverege, provides strategies and solutions for overcoming the obstacles that often hinder IoT initiatives.
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Indoor Positioning with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
BLE is useful for indoor tracking, though the space is uncertain. Because it's low power, high range, and accurate, it's a great option for some Applications.
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Indoor Positioning With Ultrasonic/Ultrasound
Ultrasonic / ultrasound can prove effective for certain indoor positioning Applications, such as hospitals or hotels, but there's still much R&D to be done.
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IoT Device Management: What is it and Why do You Need it?
Device management refers to all of the tools, capabilities and processes necessary to support IoT solutions effectively at scale. Included are processes like quickly and securely onboarding new devices, automatically identifying device issues, etc. This new series argues that we need new and better contextually-based device management solutions as business leaders build, buy, and/or implement IoT solutions with up to thousands or millions of IoT devices.
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Association of IoT Devices: Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Association of IoT devices can be manual or automatic. It can one-time or repeated. Here are examples, challenges and solutions for these four categories.
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Using LoRa and Google Cloud for IIoT Applications
The longevity and resilience of LoRa paired with Google Cloud's robust architecture provides IIoT operators with the tools they need to build the future.
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Market Research for Indoor Asset Tracking Solutions
Market research for indoor asset tracking requires careful consideration of many factors in order to set the foundation for a successful product.
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Product Research for Indoor Asset Tracking Solutions
The "full-stack" of indoor asset tracking spans across multiple interlocking technical fields and includes numerous "gotchas." Use this product research guide when developing a solution.
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Trilateration vs. Triangulation for Indoor Positioning Systems
Trilateration relies on signal strength as an analogy for distance. Triangulation relies on timing differences in the reception of tags' signals.
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Leveraging Computer Vision for Asset Tracking Solutions
Computer vision offers high accuracy and reliability for asset tracking. It has advantages over Bluetooth and WiFi, but it requires lots of bandwidth.
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RFID for Indoor Asset Tracking
RFID technology isn't a standalone solution for indoor positioning. As part of a multi-technology system, however, it can be highly effective.
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Ultra Wideband (UWB) for Indoor Positioning
Although transmission is limited to short range, with multiple well-positioned receivers, UWB can be an effective technology for indoor positioning systems.
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What is Satellite LPWAN?
This article provides an introduction to Satellite LPWAN and the positives and negatives of it as a connectivity option for IoT solutions.
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Top 3 Best Practices for Designing IoT Data Visualizations
Conveying large amounts of data quickly is key to great user experiences, these design practices will help you build user-friendly solutions.
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Smart Home Technologies: Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, and Dotdot
A brief overview of the leading smart home network protocols, including Zigbee, Z-wave and newcomer DotDot.
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Why You Need Contextual IoT Device Management
Large-scale IoT solutions require a more contextual approach to device management - check out these real-life examples.
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Deep Dive into Zigbee for Home Automation
Zigbee is a low-power low-data network protocol that's ideal for applications like home automation, where devices communicate infrequently and at short range.
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Dotdot Over Thread Deep Dive
Thread and Dotdot seem like excellent choices for smart home and commercial IoT systems, but time will tell if they can grow in the market.
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How to Effectively Monitor Utility Usage With IoT for Maximum ROI
As utilities margins slim, IoT will be useful to maximize ROI and promote public safety and reliability. Check out our smart meter solution.
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An Introduction to IoT Sensors
Sensors are the backbone of any IoT deployment. They gather and provide software with sensory information it needs.
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Breaking Down IoT Standards and Protocols
IoT has given rise to a host of new standard and protocols. This article serves as a glossary of terms related to IoT communication protocols and standards.
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The State of Indoor Positioning and Asset Tracking Using BLE and LoRa
The emergence of devices with BLE + LoRa capabilities unlock new Applications for indoor positioning and asset tracking.
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WiFi for Enterprise IoT: Why You Shouldn't Use It
In this article we dig into some of the downsides of Wifi and why it isn't a good fit for enterprise IoT solutions.
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Transforming Supply Chain Management with IoT
In this article, we look at how IoT can augment supply chain management, allowing products to arrive in better condition and faster.
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Pet Tracking with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
Pet owners can use Bluetooth Low Energy tracking solutions, paired with GPS and other smart IoT services, to keep their pets home and safe.
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Designing and Prototyping for GPS-Based Outdoor Asset Tracking Solutions
Here are a few key user experience questions that designers should ask to best assess how to design an outdoor asset tracking IoT solution.
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Fill Level Monitoring for Tanks and Storage Bins with IoT
Fill level monitoring is crucial to a variety of industries and simply means checking the fill levels of tanks or storage bins to ensure that they don’t overflow and that they don’t run out.
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What is Satellite LPWAN?
An introduction to Satellite LPWAN and the positives and negatives as a connectivity option for IoT solutions.
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Improving Warehouse Inventory Management Using IoT
How can warehouses be more efficient? The answer begins with having a detailed understanding of the current state of the system of warehouse inventory management.
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Hospital Asset Tracking Solution: Choosing Your Hardware
Hospital asset tracking solutions empower people to be more efficient, reduce cost in lost equipment, and most importantly save lives.
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Building a Tank-Level Monitoring Solution: Consider This
Building a tank-level monitoring solution shouldn't be a hassle. Here are some key considerations to ensure your project is a success!
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Modern Municipal Waste Management Solutions
Today's modern municipal waste management system is inefficient and prone to human error. Here's how IoT is changing that.
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Implementing a Space Utilization Solution Using IoT
Use IoT to systematically measure space utilization without the limitations of traditional manual and inaccurate past processes.
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Why Pairing IoT Devices to Things Must be Easy
Anyone should find pairing IoT devices to their networks and other devices as easy as possible, regardless of their technical background.
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How IoT Can Benefit the Smart Hotel and Hospitality Industry
IoT can help hospitality organizations stay ahead of the curve in the guest experience and streamline Smart Hotel operations.
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How Hotels Are Becoming Smarter to Adapt to Changing Times
The hospitality industry is seeing the value of IoT technology as hotels become smarter and address critical issues.
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How IoT Is Transforming the Service Industry
The key advantage IoT brings to service industries comes from one capability: service tracking.
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Should IT Departments Be Responsible for IoT?
Success in IoT requires new skills and capabilities, but is IT best suited to take on this challenge or should it be another department?
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How IoT is Transforming Endurance Sports
With an ever-present need to understand, monitor, and then control the wide range of factors that could influence performance, the Internet of Things (IoT) is positioned perfectly to bring in a new era of endurance sports.
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Predictive Medicine with IoT Wearables
With wearable IoT devices, patients and doctors can proactively manage chronic conditions, which improves patient outcomes, provides peace of mind, reduces costs, increases patient engagement, and drives lifestyle changes.
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The Future of Pet Ownership: IoT Products for Your Dog
Using IoT products can give owners new ways to watch and interact with their dogs, both from home and away.
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Asset Tracking and Location-Based IoT Technologies: A Comparison
Asset location tracking is one of the dominant use cases of IoT because companies need to know where their stuff is.
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The Internet of Birds: Using IoT to Track Birds
With the help of IoT, long-term migratory patterns of birds are more easily tracked.
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Asset Tracking Solutions: No One Size Fits All
In asset tracking, no size fits all. Take a look at the steps you can take to address your specific asset tracking scenario.
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Smart City Technology: Promoting Equality Between Citizens of Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds
Smart city technology can help promote equality between citizens of all different socioeconomic backgrounds.
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IoT Blockchain Revolution Is Here: Here's Why You Should Pay Attention
Blockchain and IoT have disrupted various industries on their own. What happens when these two technologies intersect?
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5 Reasons Why Google Cloud is (Still) the Best Cloud for IoT
Google Cloud is still the best for IoT because of unrivaled security, leading AI products, and the most comprehensive location services.
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No-Code Prototypes Increase The Success of IoT Pilots
No-code and low-code prototyping software is the best of both worlds between off-the-shelf software and fully custom pilot solutions.
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How to Scale IoT with Legacy Systems
With any IoT system, it is important to plan for data scalability as your system grows. Here's how to deal with legacy system challenges.
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How No-Code is Used in IoT App Development
IoT app development can be a complex topic, but using a no-code platform can help businesses bring their products to a larger scale.
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The Opportunity and the Challenge of IoT Use Cases
The opportunity in IoT is absolutely massive, and the companies that can take advantage of its use cases will be more successful.
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How to Identify Potential IoT Use Cases
There are several questions to ask yourself and your customers to assess interest and identify potential IoT use cases.
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How to Evaluate IoT Use Cases
Too many companies jump into building IoT use cases without evaluating if they are viable. Learn how to identify a strong use case.
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Successfully Migrate from Google IoT Core
This guide will show you how to select a technology partner and replace Google IoT Core with an alternative MQTT secure transport service.
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The Value Created by IoT Solutions
IoT solutions bring the physical world online and can provide value in diverse ways. Learn about the immediate and long-term value.
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How To Use AWS IoT Core to Build & Scale Your IoT Solution
AWS IoT Core can be a valuable tool for connecting and managing multiple devices in your small or large-scale IoT solution.
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Smart Water Meter Management with IoT
Use smart water meters to monitor systems in real-time to reduce overhead, manage critical issues, and increase customer satisfaction.‍
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Crop Health Management with IoT-Enabled Precision Agriculture
IoT-enabled crop health management is a game-changer to alleviate the pain points of traditional agriculture.‍
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Ebooks
An Introduction to Kubernetes
Learn about the benefits and considerations for using Kubernetes in your IoT deployment.
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The IoT Playbook: A Guide for Success in the Internet of Things
To help companies succeed in IoT, Leverege created an easy-to-understand playbook that can be used as a roadmap for success.
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Press Releases
Leverege Achieves the IoT Partner Specialization in the Google Cloud Partner Program
Leverege announced today that they've achieved IoT Partner Specialization in the Google Cloud Partner Program! Google Cloud recognizes Leverege’s technical proficiency and proven success In IoT and sensor-powered solutions.
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Tech in Motion Selects Leverege's VP of Design & Product Experience, Hannah White, as Best Tech Manager Finalist for 2019 Timmy Awards
Leverege's VP of Design & Product Experience, Hannah White, has been chosen as a finalist for the Best Tech Manager category in the 2019 Timmy Awards.
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Leverege Connect is the Ideal Replacement for Google IoT Core
Leverege’s Google Cloud-native IoT Stack provides a smooth product migration path for customers replacing Google IoT Core and other IoT data transport mechanisms.
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Built with BigQuery: How BigQuery Helps Leverege Deliver Business-critical Enterprise IoT Solutions at Scale
Leverege uses BigQuery because of its data warehousing capabilities, out-of-the-box data management features, and real-time analytics.
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Leverege and Google Cloud Partner on Low-Cost, Massive-Scale Enterprise IoT
Leverege will deliver low-cost, massive-scale enterprise IoT solutions for asset tracking, remote monitoring, workflow optimization, and process automation from Google Cloud, powering digital transformation initiatives across industries.
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Leverege Announces Support for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN
IoT solutions development company Leverege was featured as a leading System Integrator and launch partner at the recent AWS re:Invent virtual conference.
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Solutions
Automotive
Lot Management for Dealerships
Helping dealers with quicker theft recovery, more efficient reporting, and enhanced customer experience
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Automotive
Service Intelligence for Auto Service Providers
Gain insights into bay utilization, crew performance, and improve customer satisfaction
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Yard Management for Auto Manufacturers
Enabling workers to Instantly locate vehicles, reduce labor costs and better detection of bottlenecks to improve efficiency
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Retail
Energy Monitoring for Grocery Stores
Helping retailers reduce and audit energy consumption while eliminating equipment downtime and lost inventory
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Retail
Inventory Visibility for Retailers
Equipping retailers with highly accurate inventory cycle counting to help increase sales and reduce theft
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Retail
Bottom of Basket for Grocery Stores
Enables grocery stores to automatically detect bottom cart items, alert cashiers and help reduce shrinkage
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Automotive
Key Tracking for Dealerships
Helping dealerships locate keys instantly, improve customer experience and increase sales.
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Retail
Retail Shelf Utilization Monitoring
Improve inventory management, boost revenue, optimize staff efficiency, and enhance customer experience.
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Automotive
Global Inventory Management for OEMs
Enhance delivery accuracy, enable vehicle tracking, unify inventory management, and identify issues for carrier accountability.
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Healthcare
Environmental Monitoring for Hospitals
Providing real-time temperature alerts, 24/7 monitoring, and historical reports for compliance with healthcare regulations.
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Healthcare
Staff Safety for Hospitals
Enable staff to discreetly send alerts for rapid response by security, while improving security protocols and reducing liabilities.
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Healthcare
Surgical Kit Management for Orthopedic OEMs
Enables orthopedic OEMs to increase revenue by improving sales efficiency, eliminate unnecessary costs, and automating audits
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Maritime & Boating
Marine Fleet Management for Rental Companies
Providing boat fleet owners complete visibility into their fleet, including real-time and historical data from dock to open sea.
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Supply Chain & Logistics
Smart Pallet Tracking
Enabling organizations to increase ROI by increasing average turns, better track customer returns, and never lose a pallet again.
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Whitepapers
Prototyping a Dynamic Indoor Positioning Solution
In this white paper, Leverege's R&D team takes you on a journey through the process of prototyping a dynamic indoor positioning solution.
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LPWAN RF Discussion
This white paper provides a brief discussion of the pros and cons of using the lower 433 MHz band for LPWAN applications and provides implications for certain Applications.
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CBRS Shared Spectrum Explained
This post will examine what the CBRS spectrum is, why it is an attractive deployment option for cellular and non-wireless operators alike, and how this affects IoT business strategy moving forward.
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Unlicensed LTE Explained
As demands for data traffic continues to grow, wireless providers have responded by making adjustments to their LTE technology.
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A Primer on Cellular IoT
NB-IoT completes the trilogy of major cellular IoT network releases (LTE-Cat M and EC-GSM being the other two) while we await the development and deployment of 5G networks.
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LoRa & LoRaWAN Primer
This document serves as an introduction to LoRa and LoRaWAN for those considering Internet of Things (IoT) deployments.
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LPWAN White Paper
The purpose of this White Paper is to clarify key concepts of LPWAN, compare and contrast the different technologies, and provide resources for further exploration.
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