Last week Samsung Electronics announced a new contract with SK Telecom to deploy a Internet of Things (IoT) dedicated nationwide LoRaWAN network. The network will be deployed across Korea using the 900 MHz frequency band. The commercial service is scheduled to launch in Daegu, Korea’s fourth largest city, next month and will be available nationwide by the middle of this year. Samsung is hailing the new LoRaWAN-based network as the world’s first for commercial use, although KPN in The Netherlands says it will also have a nationwide network available by June, and Swisscom is deploying its national network this year as well. What is clear it that we are moving beyond community-based networks to the establishment of full commercial IoT deployments around the world. LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide-Area Network) is a low-power, long-range, and low-bandwidth networking solution that’s ideal for communications between the sensors that will blanket smart cities. It’s meant to augment, not replace networking solutions that connect bandwidth and power-hungry mobile devices like […]