IoT market is moving fast, beyond technologies services providers as networks operators are needed to boost worldwide deployments. After SigFox, operating mainly in France, the Lora Alliance http://lora-alliance.org/ launching appears as really good news; subscription cost will be more competitive. Nonetheless all application can’t accept such cloud connection price even if this one becomes very low (few dollars per year for each device) and we believe strongly on private network dedicated to a local management avoiding subscription cost. Effectively for mass deployments such cost could be a deal breaker representing hundreds thousand dollars to carry on annually.

In addition to the free operation, private network can be operated with dedicated rules offering useful services not accessible by public networks (full bidirectional communication, real-time exchanges,). These additional services allow providing added values to manage operation more efficiently. Taking into account this situation integrators have to consider public and private network depending of the real use case combining services capabilities and deployments cost …