LPWAN Overview & use cases

Hardware Club — Paris — 2015.10.28

LPWhat ?

• Low Power Wide Area Network

• Low Power: Battery-powered devices

• Wide Area: Can reach a base station kms away

Need for a new technology

• Dedicated to the Internet of Things

• Independent devices

• Frugal devices

Private networks

• ✗ Ready to use

• ✗ SLA

• ✗ Mobility

• ✓ 100% managed by your teams

Operated networks

• ✓ Ready to use

• ✓ SLA

• ✓ Mobility wherever your contract is valid

• ✗ 100% managed by your teams

Comparison

0

3,5

7

10,5

14

0 4 8 12 16

Zigbee

Range

Bandwidth

WiFi4G

3G

2G Sat

LPWANBLERFID NFC

Low bandwidth• 100s of bits/second

• ✗ Multimedia

• ✗ Full text

• ✓ Sensors values

• ✓ GPS location

• ✓ Machine readable data

Use cases

Metering

• Tele-measuring of water/gas consumption

• No need for concentrators

• Fire hydrant

• Monitor leaks

• Be sure it’s functional when needed

Utilities

• Track the location of any good or equipment

• Post theft devices

Logistics

• Know when some equipment is about to fail

• Schedule maintenance works efficiently

Predictive maintenance

Agriculture

• Monitor environment values all over an exploitation : light, soil moisture, ..

• Animal health & location tracking

Ifttt-like

• Press a button, send an empty frame & trigger any pre determined action

• « Mom I’m home ! »

• « Get me a taxi»

• ~Amazon dash

« Silver economy »

• Health monitoring, fall alerts, ..

• Without the locked-in effect of gateway-based solutions

• Track the community-payed services effectiveness

• Did the carer really come every day for 2 hours ?

IoT vs Gadgets

Sexy Stuff

BORING (BUT USEFUL)

IOT

Solutions

SIGFOX• Leader on the LPWAN Market

• Only network deployed in production in 10+ countries

• One network, no roaming

• Open hardware approach. Standard components from established partners (TI, Atmel, SiLabs, ..)

• Max 14€/year

Other

• Private networks solutions

• Crowdsourced initiatives

• Not-yet finalized protocols

Thank you ☺

• Want a real demo: let’s talk !

• Get in touch :

• nicolas.lesconnec@sigfox.com

• twitter: @nlesconnec