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The OPC Foundation announced a new joint working group effort with the LoRa Alliance to develop a mapping from LoRaWAN to OPC UA. This collaboration aims to define how data and information models originating from LoRaWAN-based devices and systems can be represented in OPC UA, enabling improved interoperability between low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) deployments and industrial automation, enterprise, and cloud-based systems.
LoRaWAN and OPC UA address different but highly synergistic layers of the digital ecosystem. LoRaWAN is widely used for low-power, long-range wireless communication, making it ideal for distributed sensing, remote monitoring, metering, and battery-operated field devices. OPC UA, by contrast, provides a platform-independent framework for secure information modeling and interoperable data exchange across industrial and enterprise environments.
Together, they offer efficient wireless connectivity at the edge, paired with semantically rich, standardized data integration across operational and information technology systems. Creating a structured mapping between LoRaWAN and OPC UA will make it easier for users, vendors, and solution providers to integrate LoRaWAN-based data streams into OPC UA-enabled architectures. This integration will support a broad range of use cases across industrial automation, smart infrastructure, energy, building systems, environmental monitoring, and digital transformation initiatives.
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