Semtech announces availability of Amazon Sidewalk products leveraging LoRa technology
Amazon Sidewalk with LoRa use case diagram. Source: Semtech
Semtech Corporation has announced the availability of third party Amazon Sidewalk products based on its LoRa technology. These include motion and carbon dioxide sensors from Browan, a smart modem from Deviceroy for solar installations, a water sensor from HSB’s Meshify and a natural gas alarm from New Cosmos DeNova Detect.
“With its ultra-low power and long-range profile, LoRa technology is the key enabling technology empowering a new era of Sidewalk-based IoT use cases,” says Mohan Maheswaran, Semtech’s president and chief executive officer.
Semtech says its LoRa technology offers a low-power, long-range, secure solution for LPWAN IoT applications. It is one of Amazon Sidewalk’s foundational technologies and provides a cost-effective communication infrastructure for consumer IoT devices such as security monitoring and pet trackers.
Amazon Sidewalk is a shared network enabled by Sidewalk Bridges that allows connected devices to reach beyond the home. Meanwhile, LoRa technology provides reliable data transmission over long distances and hard-to-reach places inside a house.
“Today’s announcement by Amazon Sidewalk, showing broad availability of Amazon Sidewalk LoRa connectivity, demonstrates the confidence Amazon has in the capability and the potential of LoRa technology,” says Daniel Newman, founding partner and chief analyst of Futurum Research and the CEO of the Futurum Group.
In addition, Semtech announced the availability of its first LoRa-enabled development kits and modules from third-party partners, enabling device makers and developers to create Amazon Sidewalk devices quickly. Silicon Labs also introduced an Amazon Sidewalk development platform to help speed up the process of bringing devices to market.
“With more than 300 million devices currently based on LoRa technology in the market today, the new Amazon Sidewalk growth initiative is well positioned to deliver more innovation, devices and IoT use cases in communities and in the home,” says Daniel Newman, the founding partner and chief analyst at Futurum Research and the CEO of the Futurum Group.
This news comes shortly after Amazon released development test kits for Amazon Sidewalk.
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Amazon Sidewalk | chip | IoT | LoRaWAN | networking | Semtech | sensors | wireless
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