LoRa Edge goes further to enable satellite networks
Semtech has added multi-band capabilities to its LoRa Edge device-to-cloud geolocation platform. The LoRa Edge LR1120 allows for direct satellite-connected IoT applications in supply chain management and logistics.
“With the launch of multi-band LoRa support, coupled with LoRa Cloud™ services, it has never been easier to expand ubiquitous IoT connectivity and geolocation globally,” says Marc Pégulu, vice president of IoT product marketing for Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products group.
Intercontinental logistics companies can leverage highly integrated, low power trackers with enhanced interoperability, via the LoRa Edge LR1120. It offers versatile connectivity for a simpler operation and global mobility across multiple regulatory regions, says Semtech. It presents the possibility to offer a low power and low cost sensor with satellite connectivity for capital intensive applications, such as infrastructure monitoring, agriculture and environmental monitoring that require deployment in remote areas.
The LoRa Edge LR1120 offers multi-band LoRa capability (sub-GHz, 2.4GHz and licensed S-band for satellite). It also offers multi-technology geolocation using GNSS for outdoor and Wi-Fi for indoor, as well as areas where satellite coverage is poor.
The LoRa Cloud geolocation solver transfers the location processing workload from the device to the Cloud, making ‘deploy once’ battery life possible.
The platform is supported by GPS and BeiDou constellations and includes a hardware crypto engine for increased security.
According to Christopher Taylor, Director, RF & Wireless with Strategy Analytics, “Adding satellite communication capabilities in the S-band to LoRa can help replace aging SCADA monitoring and opens up new applications and markets, especially in remote regions”.
Semtech’s LoRa device-to-Cloud platform is a long range, low power technology for IoT applications. The company says it enables the rapid development and deployment of low power, cost efficient and long range IoT networks, gateways, sensors, module products and IoT services worldwide.
The LoRa technology provides the communication layer for the LoRaWAN standard, which is maintained by the LoRa Alliance, an open IoT alliance for Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) applications that has been used to deploy IoT networks in over 170 countries.
Semtech is a founding member of the LoRa Alliance.
Semtech supplies analogue and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms for infrastructure, consumer and industrial equipment.
