LoRa®, LoRaWAN® and LoRa Alliance® - Who’s who?

  • LoRa® is a modulation technology, owned by Semtech since its 2013 acquisition from its inventor, the Grenoble start-up, Cycleo
  • LoRaWAN® (Long Range Radio Wide Area Network) is the low-speed long range network protocol based on LoRa technology
  • The LoRa Alliance® is an open, non-profit, international association created at the 2015 Mobile World Congress (MWC) to standardise and promote the LoRaWAN protocol. It has over 500 members, more than 120 of them operators, including Orange since 2016.
  • LoRaWAN CertifiedCM is the label awarded to devices certified by the LoRa Alliance.