IoT news of the week for Oct. 26, 2018 – Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis
LoRa just added a major new feature: The group managing the LoRa Low-Power Wide-Area Network standard just certified three new specifications designed to let LoRa networks handle over-the-air updates in a certified way. This is awesome because one of the big complaints against LoRa has been that its low data rates make it difficult to send out larger updates to devices on the other end. Now the biggest complaint against LoRa will be the fact that Semtech is the controller of the IP and makes all of the LoRa silicon. Semtech has told me it plans to address that soon and that it already has other silicon partners that can make LoRa chips. (LoRa Alliance)