From glowing city streets to snow-covered fields, LoRa® kept the world connected all year long. As the holiday season arrives, Semtech's LoRa team celebrates the innovation, collaboration and dedication that made 2025 brighter — while unwrapping a new generation of connectivity for tomorrow.
Behind every milestone, from the 450 million-plus LoRa devices deployed globally to the LoRa Gen 4’s 2.6 Mbps Fast Long-Range Connectivity (FLRC), there’s one constant: the customers who made it all happen.
None of this happens alone. From the LoRa Alliance® to our distributors, direct customers, integrators, and ecosystem builders, LoRa isn’t just a technology — it’s a movement.
This year, LoRa didn't just travel across industries — it took a holiday tour across the globe, making every stop count. From busy cities wrapped in lights to remote fields under winter skies, our customers brought LoRa to life in ways that made 2025 brighter, safer and more sustainable.
In 2025, cities across the world embraced LoRa to become smarter, greener, and more efficient. From smart street lighting that cuts energy costs and reduced carbon footprints to systems optimizing traffic flow, environmental sensors, and public safety, LoRa powered urban efficiency at scale. Water metering solutions expanded globally, and gas metering ramped up LoRaWAN® adoption, ensuring resources were managed sustainably. These deployments didn’t just save energy, they set a new benchmark for sustainable urban living worldwide.
LoRa keeps homes safe, warm and connected. Smoke detectors delivered instant fire alerts. Motion sensors made everyday living smarter. Security cameras stayed online through thick walls and storms. In 2025, LoRa entered homes as a silent guardian, protecting, monitoring and providing comfort when it mattered most. By making homes smarter and safer, LoRa gives families peace of mind that lasts beyond the holidays.
High above rooftops and fields, LoRa guided drones to soar smarter and farther. From long-range control to industrial surveying and inspection, LoRa enabled precision and reliability that made aerial innovation a reality. These advancements are redefining how industries approach mapping, monitoring and emergency response.
LoRa helped farmers grow more than crops, it grew sustainability. From monitoring soil and harvest cycles to building mesh networks that connect even the most remote fields, LoRa ensured agriculture thrived all year long. Across agricultural regions worldwide, farmers used LoRa for livestock tracking, fencing and remote crop monitoring, proving that connectivity can grow greener futures. By connecting farms, LoRa is helping feed the world while protecting the planet.
Behind the scenes, LoRa powered manufacturing and logistics. It streamlined industrial monitoring, optimized supply chains and tracked assets in real time, ensuring every product arrived on time and operations ran smoothly during the busiest season. By enabling smarter factories and faster deliveries, LoRa is driving efficiency that keeps businesses competitive and makes customers happy.
Across the world, LoRa and LoRaWAN innovation illuminated 2025 in every sense of the word. From renewable energy to smart cities, customers turned technology into transformation:
Each story reflects a simple truth: LoRa connects more than devices, it connects communities, sustainability and progress.
In 2025, from Barcelona to Bilbao, Semtech and our sales team took LoRa to the world stage, showcasing how it powers smarter cities, sustainable utilities and next-gen connectivity. Through live demos, thought leadership panels and customer success stories, we turned innovation into action and inspired adoption across industries.
These events weren’t just meetings, they were milestones where Semtech and our customers shaped the future of IoT:
Semtech’s LoRa Gen 4 portfolio is designed to enable smarter, faster and more efficient IoT solutions. The LR2021 transceiver delivers data rates up to 2.6 Mbps for multi-protocol sub-GHz and 2.4 GHz applications, driving next-generation connectivity. The LR2022 and LR2012 derivatives bring enhanced LoRa and S1G support at a more accessible cost, allowing broader adoption across diverse IoT use cases. To simplify development and accelerate time-to-market, the Unified Software Platform (USP) for LoRa Plus offers a streamlined integration experience, ensuring solutions are future-ready and reliable.
This was the year of telling the LoRa story, from global press releases and event highlights to the launch of the LoRa Customer Newsletter, connecting our ecosystem through product updates, success stories, blogs and insights from across the globe. Because innovation might be the engine, but storytelling is the spark.
Every device deployed means less energy wasted, fewer resources consumed and more lives improved.
Cheers to the innovators who turned LoRa into solutions that light up cities, protect homes, connect farms and safeguard health. Because at Semtech, innovation doesn't take a holiday, but it does take a community.
From all of us at Semtech: Thank you for making 2025 a year of innovation, connection and collaboration.
Now go enjoy your holiday break.
Happy Holidays from the entire Semtech team!
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