March 10 to 12, 2026 | Messe Nuremberg, Germany
Embedded World 2026, one of Europe's most anticipated technology events, brought together thousands of engineers, innovators and decision-makers at Messe Nuremberg from March 10 to 12. If there was one theme that defined the event, it was Edge AI. The story everywhere you looked was the same: intelligence at the edge, processing closer to the source and only essential data making its way to the cloud. And right at the heart of that story was LoRa® technology.
The Semtech exhibit on the show floor drew significant attention and unmistakable energy from the very first day. NeoCortec, in collaboration with Embit, deployed a long hops mesh of nodes powered by Semtech's LR1121 LoRa Connect™ across multiple exhibition halls, offering seamless, low-latency and high-throughput communication. It was a real-world proof point that impressed engineers and decision-makers alike.
NeoCortec's NeoMesh demo on the Embedded World 2026 show floor, featuring live network nodes connecting Embit, NeoCortec and Semtech across multiple exhibition halls.
Several module makers exhibited their latest LoRaWAN modules built on different Semtech integrated circuits (ICs), showcasing the breadth and depth of the LoRa module ecosystem to a highly engaged European audience.
What made Semtech's presence truly compelling was the convergence of Edge AI and LoRa. Across the floor, numerous Edge AI companies had integrated LoRa into their end nodes, and the combination was drawing serious conversations. Asygn and EMASS were standouts, each showcasing powerful Edge AI capabilities leveraging LoRaWAN connectivity.
The industry has reached a point where multi-protocol support is no longer a differentiator, but a requirement. Whether it is LoRaWAN with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) or with Z-Wave, Wi-SUN, wireless meter-bus (wM-Bus), (IEEE) 802.15.4 standard or any other combination, the expectation is seamless, flexible, and multi-protocol operation.
Semtech answered that expectation with the LR2021, a transceiver that brings LoRa together with the physical layer (PHY) of the low-power wireless protocols serving the multi-faceted IoT market in a single, compact solution. Whether for smart homes, smart industries or Edge AI applications, LR2021 is the answer.
Booth visitors also had the opportunity to explore a rich catalog of Amazon Sidewalk devices built across Semtech's complete portfolio of LoRa chipsets. This allowed attendees, who originally came to learn about one protocol, to leave understanding why LoRa is the connective tissue of the modern IoT edge.
Trident IoT brought one of the most talked-about demos of the entire event. The setup was elegantly simple: a Z-Wave-enabled door motion sensor was physically triggered, communicating the movement to an LR2021 attached to a camera which then recorded a five-second video. That video — 150 kilobytes of data — was transmitted to a monitor via FLRC in less than a second.
Trident IoT did not stop there. The same LR2021 hardware was built into a packet sniffer capable of scanning LoRa, Zigbee and Z-Wave packets simultaneously. And layered on top of that was an Edge AI capability that processed and summarized the captured data in plain English. Want to know how many LoRa packets were sniffed? Ask it. Want to know if a packet was lost and which one? It points it out. That is AI and LR2021 working together, simplifying otherwise tedious debug sessions and accelerating design teams’ time to market.
This demo united four partners to demonstrate the potential of combining ultra-low-power Edge AI, energy harvesting and LoRaWAN. The Murata 2GT module with Semtech’s LR1121 enabled LoRaWAN connectivity for a device using Asygn’s Colibry Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for real-time image recognition and is powered by Dracula’s organic photovoltaic (OPV) film with an e-peas Power Management Integrated Circuit (PMIC). A camera counted fingers presented in front of it and transmitted the data with metadata over LoRaWAN.
The result was a fully functional, battery-free Edge AI device that required no external power infrastructure and demonstrated practical machine vision at the IoT edge.
EMASS showcased predictive industrial maintenance with Edge AI and LoRaWAN. Using an ECS-DOT sensor and LR1121 Modem-E, it monitored fan vibrations and sent instant alerts when anomalies were detected. The demonstration highlighted how low-power edge intelligence and long-range connectivity enable proactive maintenance and reduce costly downtime.
This demo used the multi-PHY features of LoRa Plus™ to combine BLE beaconing for proximity and indoor location with LoRaWAN for smarter network control. BLE interval and transmit power were dynamically adjusted via LoRaWAN, improving battery life and network efficiency in real time. When out of BLE range, the device switched to LoRa beaconing for basic geolocation using Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) or ranging.
The most talked-about, most covered wireless network in the United States is expanding globally. Amazon Sidewalk, built on LoRa as its long-range connectivity layer, transforms what was once a local area network into a wide area network that scales.
The Semtech booth featured a full range of Sidewalk-enabled devices: a glass break sensor, a carbon dioxide (CO2) detection sensor, a Ring camera, and the Little Bird kid's tracker. Every device was LoRa-powered and part of the Sidewalk ecosystem. Attendees who had heard about Sidewalk but never experienced it up close were genuinely amazed. It became one of the defining conversations of the show.
Embedded World 2026 made one thing unmistakably clear: Edge AI is not a trend, but the direction the entire embedded industry is moving toward. LoRa is the connectivity layer that makes intelligence at the edge practical, scalable and real. From Trident IoT's FLRC video transfer to EMASS's predictive maintenance demo, from Asygn's ultra-low-power Edge AI device to the Amazon Sidewalk showcase, every conversation around the Semtech booth pointed to the same conclusion: LoRa and Edge AI belong together.
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