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LoRa Alliance™ Enhances LoRaWAN™ Protocol with New Specifications to Support Firmware Updates Over the Air

LoRa Alliance Reports Rapid Growth in Deployments and Device Certification over Past 6 Months; Japan is a Key Market for LPWAN Networks

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TOKYO – October 25, 2018 – The LoRa AllianceTM, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWANTM protocol for the Internet of Things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), today announced public availability of three new specifications. Together, the new specifications support and standardize firmware updates over the air (FUOTA), a capability unique to LoRaWAN among low power wide area networks (LPWANs).