The document discusses the LoRa Alliance and its mission to enable a global low power wide area network for the Internet of Things. Some key points:
- The LoRa Alliance was founded in 2015 and has over 130 members across 27 countries working to establish an open standard for LPWAN connectivity.
- The Alliance's mission is to create an open specification and certification process for secure, interoperable IoT connectivity through a low power wide area network.
- LoRaWAN is the Alliance's open standard protocol, with the first version (R1.0) published. Eight commercial networks have been deployed and 56 operator trials are ongoing using LoRaWAN.
- The LoRaWAN