[HH] IOT and LoRaWAN™ (Long Range wide-area networks)

[Stephen Ronan]

This article states that: "Allen Proithis, a former HP executive, is
leading this US rollout as Sigfox’s president of North America and the
regional headquarters will be based in Boston."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2015/10/27/samsung-backed-sigfox-has-built-a-wireless-network-for-the-internet-of-things-in-san-francisco-plans-coverage-of-10-us-cities-by-early-2016/#2715e4857a0b599e7d7c6504

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Stephen Ronan <sronan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some items I'm finding helpful while trying to understand this
> better.. In the first, TI staff criticize LoRaWAN's spread spectrum
> technology as handling interference far less well than TI's, mostly
> narrowband, competitive technology.
>
> https://e2e.ti.com/support/wireless_connectivity/proprietary_sub_1_ghz_simpliciti/f/156/p/343273/1477077
>
> Looks like Sigfox with its long-range narrowband IoTnetworks aims to
> come to Boston:
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2883212/sigfox-taps-new-funding-to-expand-its-iot-network-around-the-world.html
>
> Contrasting Sigfox and LoRa:
> http://rethink-iot.com/2015/03/20/on-lpwans-why-sigfox-and-lora-are-rather-different-and-the-importance-of-the-business-model/
>
> And some third-party testing... far from thorough but perhaps of interest:
> http://embeddedexperience.blogspot.fi/2015/02/real-life-performance-of-lora-radio.html
>
>   - Stephen