The OPC Foundation has announced a new joint working group effort with the LoRa Alliance to develop a mapping from LoRaWAN to OPC UA, bringing together two highly complementary technologies that play important roles in the future of industrial and IoT connectivity. 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 robust, platform-independent framework for secure information modelling and interoperable data exchange across industrial and enterprise environments. Together, they offer a powerful combination: efficient wireless connectivity at the edge, paired with semantically rich and standardised data integration across operational and information technology systems.
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