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What is Driving LoRaWAN Adoption? | Bruce Chatterley & Dennis Henderson | E218

IoT For All Podcast · 8 Sept 2022 · 38m

What this episode covers

Bruce Chatterley, CEO of Senet, and Dennis Henderson, CEO of Ready Wireless, discuss why LoRaWAN has become the de facto standard for Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). They highlight key use cases including water utility metering, gas leak detection, food safety compliance, and hotel panic buttons, driven by the technology's robust propagation and low cost. The guests explain that successful adoption requires focusing on business ROI and solving specific customer problems rather than just deploying technology, often through partnerships that combine devices, networks, and applications. They also address challenges such as proving return on investment and the complexity of integrating disparate hardware and software components.

Most relevant to

companies scaling up

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Ready Wireless, Senet, Helium, UtahSAT
Also
LoRaWAN, LoRa Alliance

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