The LoRa Alliance, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN standard for Internet of Things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), on Monday announced that it has expanded the LoRaWAN standard. The Alliance presented the addition of TS013-1.0.0, an application programming interface (API) for application payload encoder-decoders (codecs). Adopting the new specification will allow device manufacturers and application server providers to reduce deployment complexity significantly, according to the Alliance, making it easier and faster to deploy LoRaWAN devices at a massive scale.
The LoRa Alliance will host a webinar on October 27, at 7 a.m. PDT to share how to build a standard codec, focusing on its structure and recommendations for optimization.
“LoRa Alliance members, working with their customers identified a new opportunity to enhance ease-of-use,” said Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “By doing the work to develop a standardized application payload codec API, we are greatly simplifying the onboarding process, making it easier to integrate and deploy devices, and thereby facilitating massive LoRaWAN deployments. This new specification eliminates yet another barrier to massive IoT with a new standards-based approach.”
The LoRaWAN Payload Codec API standardizes an API for the JavaScript codecs for LoRaWAN devices to enable adoption by both device makers and application server vendors. A standard codec provides the capability to decode uplinks/downlinks and to encode downlinks, allowing new LoRaWAN devices to be integrated into any compatible platform.
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