Concept13: How combining quality and volume is key for LoRaWAN deployments

It has been a long, hard road, but LoRaWAN is finally standing tall as a protocol of choice for smart buildings, smart cities and utilities. 

At the start of this year, LoRa Alliance CEO Alper Yegin wrote that LoRaWAN was like Lego, with use cases ‘limited only by the imagination.’  With global adoption and robust standards now in place, ABI Research’s prediction that LoRa would be the leading non-cellular LPWA (low power wide area) network technology by 2026 is starting to bear fruit. Yet it is vitally important for businesses to get the big deployment decisions right.

Steven Drewett is CEO of Concept13, which combines consultancy with being Europe’s leading supplier of LoRaWAN hardware. Having ‘been around since the outset’, as Drewett puts it, there is a wealth of experience on which to draw. Drewett estimates that in around 30% of cases, he advises potential clients that LoRaWAN isn’t the right fit for their project; but for those which are, his goal is to make the most of it. The first question one multi-million-pound company asked was whether LoRaWAN was the right fit. It evidently was: they are now deploying to more than 90 countries.

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