RE:RE:BeWhere presenting at Costco Annual Fleet ConferenceHi Speedyg,
LPWAN stands for low-power wide area network. It's just a general term that encompasses different communication protocols. 2 of those communication protocols are LTE-M and NB-IoT. Majority of North American carriers are focusing on LTE-M as it's just a software upgrade on the LTE towers compared to NB-IoT which requires new cell towers (new hardware). In Europe and Asia, we're LTE isn't as prevalent, they are opting for NB-IoT.
Just like your cellphone, BeWhere's LTE-M or NB-IoT beacons connect directly to a cell tower. So the sequence looks like this: beacon data -> AT&T or roaming cell tower -> BeWhere's servers (analytics platform / customer portal). The beacons can easily roam onto other carriers networks. The roaming agreement between carriers isn't of concern for BeWhere -- and it's negociated only between carriers akin to cellphone plans today. That's part of the reason LTE-M took some time to rollout it's to figure out how the roaming would work between networks.
To answer your question, yes the beacons could roam anywhere in North America, although I'm not sure yet agreements between US and Canadian carriers have been negociated. Probably even within Canada nothing has been negociated as only Bell has announced that it's working on LTE-M. Certainly in the future, it will happen IMO.
Speedyg5344 wrote: Sports guy, Is Bew's technology and At&Ts Lpwan such that data from a sensor any where in that States can be retrieved from anywhere in the States? Even outside of States? Thanks in advance