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Birdz’s Ahmed Kasttet also joins the Board, “bringing deep expertise in large-scale metering deployments” said the alliance.
LoraWAN is an open standard for IoT low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), primarily connecting – wirelessly – battery operated devices to the Internet. The IoT requirements include such things as support for bi-directional comms, end-to-end security features, and mobility.
The changes are described by the alliance as being for “the scaling for LoRaWAN technology in the IoT ecosystem”.
Alper Yegin
“As we conducted our search, we looked for a leader with the skills and experience to guide the Alliance as LoRaWAN hyperscaling accelerates,” said ZENNER’s Rich Sanders on behalf of the organisation’s search committee. “Alper (pictured) stood out among the candidates due to his strong contributions to the development of LoRaWAN technology and deep knowledge of the market and customer requirements.”
“Alper has been a key driver of LoRaWAN’s success, including eight years as Chair of the Technical Committee and six years as Alliance Vice Chair, in addition to 25 years of experience with wireless communication standards and alliance leadership, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and the Zigbee Alliance. The Board is confident that Alper has the vision and leadership to guide the Alliance through this period of rapid growth as Massive IoT takes off.”
Previously, Donna Moore was both CEO and chair of the Alliance. Yegin was VP of Advanced Technology Development at Actility, an IoT platform provider.
LoRa Alliance
The LoRa Alliance – a global association of companies and a nonprofit association – dates from 2015.
Decribing the changes, the alliance said that over those nine years it has gone through two major development phases.
The first was a startup phase was developing the LoRaWAN specification. There was also the formation of the LoRa Alliance organisation itself.
The second phase was building the Alliance’s organisational structure, formalising its procedures, and building visibility for LoRaWAN.
The Alliance says it is now on its third phase as LoRaWAN “moves into hyperscaling, aka the hockey stick ramp”.
“With several large enterprise brands having already rolled out services using LoRaWAN and network availability at an all-time high globally with terrestrial, community and NTN satellite options, paired with a robust LoRaWAN end-device ecosystem, the forecast growth trajectory is very strong,” it concludes.
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