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Opportunities and challenges for Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technologies

  • Low power wide area
  • LPWA
  • Internet of Things
  • IoT
  • Jim Morrish
Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) connectivity includes an emerging group of wireless technologies that have been specifically designed to support the communications needs of machines, not humans. There are clear opportunities for such technologies but, as ever with new technologies, there are attendant challenges. This report provides an introduction to the range of LPWA technologies and an assessment of the challenges they face in addressing the IoT opportunity.

Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) connectivity includes an emerging group of wireless technologies that have been specifically designed to support the communications needs of machines, not humans. There are clear opportunities for such technologies but, as ever with new technologies, there are attendant challenges. This report provides an introduction to the range of LPWA technologies and an assessment of the challenges they face in addressing the IoT opportunity.

  • 3GPP
  • Amazon
  • Kyocera
  • Microchip
  • NTT Docomo
  • Proximus
  • Sigfox
  • Internet of Things
  • Hyperconnectivity