Semtech’s LoRa Technology Integrated in Polysense’s Structural Health Monitoring System for Smart
Buildings
Structure Health Monitoring system with LoRa Technology monitors buildings for a variety of safety
indicators in real-time
Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors and advanced
algorithms, announced that
Polysense Technologies Inc., an innovative leader in enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for fiber and wireless
sensing, has built Semtech’s
LoRa® devices and wireless radio frequency technology (LoRa Technology) into its Structure Health Monitoring (SHM) system to
enable remote and real-time monitoring of building structure safety and integrity.
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Semtech’s LoRa Technology Integrated in Polysense’s Structural Health Monitoring System for Smart Buildings
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“With LoRa-based wireless sensors and gateways, we can get a building connected within a couple of hours by eliminating the need
for power wiring installation. In comparison, a wired solution could take around a week to install,” said Will H. Yu, Director of
IoT solutions at Polysense Technologies. “The key for us is to utilize the power of IoT to solve real problems. With our SHM
solution, resource issues are properly addressed, while, most importantly, providing urgent information to protect citizens from
danger. LoRa Technology is a perfect marriage for sensing and data analytics solutions.”
Polysense’s SHM system consists of various LoRa-based IoT sensors, a LoRa-based gateway, and a proprietary Cloud-based data
management platform. A four to six-story building is equipped with an end-to-end solution consisting of several sensors on the
walls and roof to measure building surface wall crack growth, tilt and vibration, and often a soil moisture sensor to monitor water
saturation at the building’s foundation, at a fractional cost of the traditional wired solution or human inspection. Typically, one
gateway is used per residential complex. Additionally, Polysense provides the LoRaWAN™-based network and mobile applications for
real-time monitoring of building status. Polysense recently partnered with AEIDO, a Chinese company offering structural safety
inspections, certification, and monitoring services, to roll out hundreds of SHM systems in Shaoxing, a city on China’s east coast
which is particularly vulnerable to the elements.
“Semtech’s LoRa Technology offers flexibility and easy deployment into a wide range of infrastructure, both old and new,” said
Vivek Mohan, Director of IoT for Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products Group. “Scalable by increasing the number of gateways,
solutions built on LoRa Technology can cover the tallest skyscrapers and sprawling campuses. LoRa Technology and the IoT are
working to create safer buildings, cities and a smarter planet.”
About Semtech’s LoRa® Devices and Wireless RF Technology
Semtech’s LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology is a widely adopted long-range, low-power solution for IoT that
gives telecom companies, IoT application makers and system integrators the feature set necessary to deploy low-cost, interoperable
IoT networks, gateways, sensors, module products, and IoT services worldwide. IoT networks based on the LoRaWAN™ specification have
been deployed in 100 countries and Semtech is a founding member of the LoRa Alliance™, the fastest growing IoT Alliance for Low
Power Wide Area Network applications. To learn more about how LoRa enables IoT, visit Semtech’s LoRa
site and join the LoRa
Community™ to access free training as well as an online industry catalog showcasing the products you need for building
your ideal IoT application.
About Polysense
Located in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Beijing, Luo Yang and Shanghai, China, Polysense develops IoT products and
solutions for smart enterprise, city and home, including distributed fiber sensing, LPWAN LoRa, NB-IoT/LTE CAT M and Wi-Fi/BLE
based wireless IoT sensors and cloud based data management and analytics cloud platform iView, edge computing platform iEdge,
smartphone App iPalm. For more information, visit
www.polysense.net
About Semtech
Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms for
high-end consumer, enterprise computing, communications, and industrial equipment. Products are designed to benefit the engineering
community as well as the global community. The Company is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have on the
environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste through material and manufacturing control, use of green technology and
designing for resource reduction. Publicly traded since 1967, Semtech is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol
SMTC. For more information, visit
www.semtech.com.
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