At the LoRa Alliance’s annual members meeting in Berlin, Syniverse announced it’s working with LoRa Alliance members to launch the industry’s first LoRaWAN® neutral roaming platform, which will interconnect currently deployed LoRaWAN® networks.
Interconnecting LoRaWAN® networks through Syniverse will allow unlicensed internet of things (IoT) technologies like Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN® to work harmoniously together across global networks. It will also allow the IoT ecosystem LoRaWAN® supports to scale faster because there is a common underlying infrastructure managed by a neutral third-party that allows disparate networks to harmonize. Taking this approach streamlines international rollouts, domestic network aggregation and supply chain solutions.
LoRaWAN® is a leading unlicensed spectrum low-power, wide-area technology that addresses IoT use cases in more than 100 countries. While the technology powers both moving and motionless sensors, applications and devices – such as smart metering for utilities, tracking assets in supply chains, smart farming, and industry 4.0 solutions – there are hundreds of LoRaWAN® public and private networks across regions that currently do not communicate effortlessly with each other.
Syniverse is leveraging its investment in enabling connectivity, roaming management and settlement services among every mobile operator on earth for the last three decades to develop a LoRaWAN® hub that will allow connectivity across the ecosystem. Presently processing more than four billion billable transactions daily, settling more than $15 billion USD annually, and connecting nearly 800 mobile operators today, Syniverse is a neutral host that will enable the LoRa ecosystem to unlock its full potential.
Enabling roaming for LoRaWAN® via a hub aligns with Syniverse’s multi-access IoT technology strategy of transitioning to next-generation networks, including 5G, which will also require interoperability with legacy networks in order for companies to host services including IoT, blockchain and others. Syniverse has already successfully demonstrated LoRaWAN® connectivity over its global, secure IoT network in the Syniverse Innovation Lab.
Syniverse will start interconnection tests with LoRaWAN® network operators later this year, aiming to open interconnection services by the end of 2019.
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