LPWA to become the leading technology for the Internet of Things
According to GSMA and Machina Research, Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) connections are set to exceed 2G, 3G, and 4G and become the leading technology for the Internet of Things (IoT), with 1.4 billion connections by 2022. As described by GSMA, ‘LPWA networks are an emerging, high-growth area of the IoT, designed to support machine-to-machine applications that have low data rates, require long battery lives, and operate unattended for long periods of time, often in remote locations. They will be used for a wide variety of applications such as industrial asset tracking, safety monitoring, water and gas metering, smart grids, city parking, vending machines and city lighting’.
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