US operator Senet is working with Pennsylvania-based IotaComm to deliver LoRaWan through both 915MHz unlicensed spectrum and IotaComm’s 800MHz FCC-licensed spectrum.

IotaComm is an LPWAN wireless communication and data analytics software company.

The initial use cases will be focused on smart building, smart city and critical infrastructure applications. With this collaboration, and in addition to its use of the Senet platform for application and device management, IotaComm has also become a Senet radio access network (RAN) operator and LPWAN virtual network (LVN) participant, adding coverage to one of the fastest growing LoRaWans in North America.

Through a combination of sensors, meters and its Delphi360 wireless connectivity and data analytics platform, IotaComm provides an end-to-end smart building and smart city offering used by building managers, industrial site managers and city planners to manage the health, safety and sustainability goals of their organisations and facilities. In addition, IotaComm combines its FCC-licensed spectrum within the LoRaWan standard to enable carrier-grade, low power wide area connectivity for critical infrastructure applications, such as smart metering and predictive maintenance.

To support growing demand for power efficient, battery operated indoor and outdoor smart building sensors, IotaComm operates more than 140 tower sites nationwide and plans to deploy 150 LoRaWan gateways by 2023.

For those preferring added levels of network and application performance, Senet and IotaComm are collaborating to create a LoRaWan service using the 800MHz licensed spectrum. IotaComm already owns enough 800MHz spectrum to cover about 90 per cent of the USA and plans to deploy multi-access gateways to deliver a premium smart building connectivity offering. IotaComm will use Senet’s cloud-based platform to manage both its public LoRaWan and private on-premises networks and application deployments using the 800MHz FCC-licensed spectrum.

“We’re honoured to be working alongside Senet in the quest to provide the wireless connectivity efficiency and flexibility that industries are requiring,” said Terrence DeFranco, CEO of IotaComm. “This partnership fully supports our goals of building the largest national, carrier-grade LPWAN dedicated to the IoT. Together with Senet’s network architecture expertise, we’ll deliver real-time data that result in high-value and actionable insights while filling an existing connectivity gap.”

By opening their LoRaWan gateways to data traffic from all providers connecting to the Senet LVN, IotaComm is contributing to the expansion of public carrier-grade LoRaWans across the USA, and generating IoT services revenue streams. Unique to the Senet LVN are business models designed to deliver unified LoRaWan connectivity without the need for roaming contracts and the opportunity for participants, such as IotaComm, to share in the revenue generated by all end devices connecting to the gateways they’ve deployed regardless of end user origin.

“Innovation has always been at Senet’s core and our partnership with IotaComm is another example of Senet leading the market through innovative technology and unique business models that allow users to improve operations and address sustainability goals,” said Bruce Chatterley, CEO at Senet. “IotaComm brings significant value and differentiation to our portfolio of RAN provider and LVN partners, and we look forward to collaborating to deliver ground-breaking networks to the commercial building energy management and facility operation markets.”

Senet offers services in over eighty countries and owns and operates one of the largest publicly available LoRaWans in the USA.