Orange believes the company will earn perhaps 600 million euros in Internet of Things (IoT) revenue by 2018, with initial commercial operations expected in the first quarter of 2016.
Some of that revenue is expected to come from IoT connectivity services provided by a new Low Power Wide Area network (LPWAN), a specialized network designed to support many devices with rather low bandwidth requirements with low-power operation and lower cost.
“As a part of our new strategic plan Essentials2020, Orange has an ambition to become the number one operator for the Internet of Things,” said Stéphane Richard, Chief Executive Officer of Orange.
LoRaWAN was developed to support wireless battery-operated Things.
LoRaWAN network architecture is typically laid out in a star-of-stars topology in which the gateway is a transparent bridge relaying messages between end-devices and a central network server in the backend.
Gateways are connected to the network server using standard IP connections while end-user devices use single-hop wireless communication to one or many gateways.
All end-point communication is generally bi-directional, but also supports operation such as multicast enabling software upgrade over the air or other mass distribution messages to reduce the on air communication time.
LoRa uses spread spectrum technology and supports data rates from 0.3 kbps to 50 kbps. To maximize both battery life of the end-devices and overall network capacity, the LoRaWAN network server is managing the data rate and RF output for each end-device individually by means of an adaptive data rate scheme.
LoRa is one of a number of protocols supporting IoT networks.
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