As part of the collaboration, designed to bring consolidation to the low power WAN (LPWAN) sector, Weightless will offer its Weightless-N standards activities into ETSI’s Low Throughput Network (LTN) initiative. This, it says, will ensure that all those interested in ultra narrowband solutions are represented in one forum.
Weightless CEO Professor William Webb said: “In order to reduce fragmentation and enable critical mass in the marketplace, we are bringing these two initiatives together, providing a platform around which industry can coalesce.”
The SIG has also appointed Telensa to its board. “We are delighted to welcome Telensa to the burgeoning Weightless ecosystem,” said Prof Webb.
“Proprietary ecosystems are no substitute for credible open standards when real market velocity is required,” said Will Gibson, CEO Telensa. "That's why we're delighted to be extending our ETSI standards work by joining the board of Weightless. This partnership signals a growing maturity in the LPWA market and will liberate a new wave of smart city sensor and application developers.”
ETSI’s LTN initiative is developing an LPWAN standard and this work is supported by a range of companies, including Telensa and Sigfox. Currently, only ETSI and Weightless have developed IoT specific standards for unlicensed spectrum based on UNB technology.
