 FREMONT, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--The LoRa Alliance, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN standard for the Internet of Things IoT low-power wide-area networks LPWANs, today announced that Tony Shakib, general managerpartner of Azure IoT Engineering at Microsoft, has joined the LoRa Alliance board of directors. Microsoft is widely considered a hyperscaler for LoRaWAN, and its participation in the alliance can strengthen the technologys presence in the LPWAN market 