US firms Senet and Adtran have announced a partnership to deliver carrier-grade LoRaWan services for IoT applications across enterprise and campus environments.

New Hampshire-based Senet provides cloud-based software and services that enable global connectivity and on-demand network build-outs for the IoT. Alabama-based Adtran provides business and residential connectivity.

Through the collaboration, the Adtran 7310-08 IoT gateway has been certified to operate with Senet’s cloud-based network management platform, providing businesses, VARs and system integrators a path to deploying and managing cost effective and secure LoRaWan connectivity in and around commercial buildings at scale.

Benefits include:

• Rapid deployment and easy configuration on the Senet network with Adtran’s IoT app and the micro-sized 7310-08, eight-channel LoRaWan IoT gateway.
• Integration with Senet’s cloud-based network operating system, including OSS and BSS features engineered to coordinate and scale the delivery of network services beyond the capabilities of a standalone LoRaWan server.
• New business and revenue generation opportunities through participation in the Senet LVN low-power wide area virtual network.

“Businesses are realising the strain distributed IoT deployments can put on their network and look to better plan and manage IoT network resources and large-scale sensor-based device deployments,” said Keith Atwell, head of global business development at Adtran. “Partnering with Senet to provide out-of-the-box integration between our gateways and their cloud-hosted network services allows our customers to roll out IoT of any size, knowing they are getting the carrier-grade quality the industry has come to expect from Adtran and on a network architected to scale with them as they grow.”

With Adtran and Senet removing the complexities of network deployment and management, businesses can focus on improving operations and safety through a range of wirelessly-connected options. Adtran’s LoRaWan IoT gateway is suitable for a broad range of smart building applications, including asset tracking, equipment monitoring, lighting controls, room occupancies, biometrics, motion sensing and contact tracing.

“It is one thing to select the most appropriate wireless technology to meet the needs of business-critical IoT projects, but quite another to manage it within a distributed organisation,” said Bruce Chatterley, CEO of Senet. “However, with the right network infrastructure and management services in place, enterprise organisations can rapidly overcome the more common challenges. Our partnership with Adtran gives businesses a clear path to using a diverse range of LoRaWan-powered sensors to automate processes and gain new and actionable insights into their operations.”

Senet develops cloud-based software and services used by network operators, application developers and system integrators for the on-demand deployment of IoT networks. In addition to industrial and commercial applications, Senet has designed smart meter networks for many municipal water utility districts across the USA, representing millions of households.

Adtran provides open, disaggregated networking and communications that enable voice, data, video and internet communications across any network infrastructure. From the cloud edge to the subscriber edge, it empowers communications service providers around the world to manage and scale services that connect people, places and things.