"For big, broad scale deployments I'm putting my money behind Narrowband IoT" said Andrew Morawski, head of Vodafone's IoT business, who is not concerned about the headway made by supporters of Sigfox and LoRa technology in wireless networks. He said narrowband IoT is likely to create a new market in the arena for LTE operators worldwide, and added that this technology benefits from security and reliability. And Senet, which describes itself as the first and only North American provider of public, low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) for LoRa-based Internet of Things (IoT) applications, says it has achieved coverage in 100 U.S. cities and plans to double that number over the next year. The other big player in the field was Qualcomm which has been working on its own version of sigfox, called XDAC, since 2013.
"For big, broad scale deployments I'm putting my money behind Narrowband IoT" said Andrew Morawski, head of Vodafone's IoT business, who is not concerned about the headway made by supporters of Sigfox and LoRa technology in wireless networks. He said narrowband IoT is likely to create a new market in the arena for LTE operators worldwide, and added that this technology benefits from security and reliability. The other big player in the field was Qualcomm which has been working on its own version of sigfox, called XDAC, since 2013.