Asia has long been recognized as one of the most dynamic regions for Internet of Things (IoT) adoption, and the Asia Tech x Singapore 2026 (ATxSG) expo made that reality impossible to ignore. Semtech and the LoRa Alliance® brought their full ecosystem to the event, and the reception was everything the team had hoped for.
Offering a rich representation of gateway manufacturers and end-node developers, the LoRa Alliance pavilion drew consistent foot traffic, meaningful technical conversations and at least one landmark business moment that signals just how far LoRaWAN® has come in the Asia-Pacific region.
Here is a look back at everything that made ATxSG a milestone event for the LoRaWAN community.
Semtech participated in two key conference sessions as part of the LoRaWAN in Action World Tour. Rémi Demerlé represented Semtech on the LoRaWAN in Utilities Panel, speaking to LoRaWAN's role in smart water metering and monitoring of smart grid infrastructure with panelists from Netmore, Itron, WNES, Kerlink, and Sindcon. Semtech’s Olivier Beaujard joined the Smart Cities in Action Panel with speakers from TEKTELIC, RAKwireless, moderated by Matt MacDowell from MultiTech. Both conversations put LoRaWAN at the center of Asia's most critical infrastructure investment categories.
Rémi Demerlé moderating the LoRaWAN in Utilities Panel at the LoRaWAN in Action World Tour co-located at ATxSG
Olivier Beaujard speaking on the Smart Cities in Action Panel at the LoRaWAN in Action World Tour co-located at ATxSG
Semtech at the LoRa Alliance Pavilion: Demos That Drew Crowds
The booth earned the distinction of being the largest IoT booth at ATxSG, a reflection of both the scale of the LoRaWAN ecosystem and the quality of what the team put on the floor.
Fast Long-Range Communication (FLRC) Video Transfer: Live Video Streaming
The most popular demo of the entire event needed no elaborate setup to make its point. Using Semtech's Fast Long-Range Communication (FLRC) modulation, the team demonstrated live video streaming over Semtech LR2021, a capability that challenges conventional assumptions about what a low-power, long-range radio can do.
Visitors who approached expecting to see a blinking LED or a slow sensor reading were stopped in their tracks. Live video, streamed wirelessly, using Semtech technology. The demo consistently drew clusters of engineers and decision-makers who wanted to understand how it worked and where it could be applied.
FLRC pushes the data rate envelope, enabling higher throughput for applications that need to transmit larger amount of data without abandoning the long-range video surveillance, remote monitoring and situational awareness applications are all natural fits.
FLRC Audio Transfer: Walkie Talkie
Alongside the video demo, the team showcased two-way audio transfer over FLRC, effectively a walkie-talkie built with Semtech’s LR2021. Clear, real-time voice communication over long-range demonstrated the same core principle as the video demo: FLRC extends the tradeoff between data rate and range.
For applications like field operations, remote site coordination or emergency response in infrastructure-poor environments, an FLRC-based push-to-talk system offers meaningful advantages over alternatives that depend on coverage that may not exist.
Round-Trip Time of Flight (RTToF) Ranging Demo
The ranging demo offered visitors a look at LoRa®'s distance measurement capabilities using the Round-Trip Time of Flight (RTToF) of LoRa signals to determine the distance between two devices. Ranging has applications across asset tracking, industrial automation, logistics, and indoor positioning, and the live demonstration gave visitors a direct, hands-on feel for the technology's accuracy and responsiveness.
One-Channel Hub
The One-Channel Hub demo rounded out the showcase with a practical, accessible entry point into LoRaWAN for developers and evaluators. A single-channel hub allows LoRaWAN devices to connect and transmit data without requiring the infrastructure of a multi-channel gateway, making it an effective prototyping and development tool, and a low-cost first step for organizations exploring LoRaWAN deployments or smart home consumer applications.
A Thriving Ecosystem, All Under One Roof
One of the clearest signals of a technology's maturity is the depth and breadth of its partner ecosystem. At ATxSG, that depth was on full display. The LoRa Alliance pavilion brought together partners spanning the full stack from gateways to end nodes to cloud-connected sensors giving visitors a complete picture of what a LoRaWAN deployment looks like in practice.
Kerlink rounded out the gateway showcase with two announcements that turned heads across the pavilion:
- Kerlink revealed a fully autonomous gateway with solar panel and internet that uses either Starlink or Kineis for satellite backhaul, in conjunction with Edge Computing embedded into the gateway.
- The signing of agreement with Integrasia, a division of the Djarum Group, one of Indonesia's largest conglomerates with over 35,000 telecom towers across the country. The agreement covers the first order of 1,000 LoRaWAN gateways.
The signing ceremony at ASIA TECH Expo of partnership agreement between Kerlink and Integrasia in presence of Semtech’s Olivier Beaujard and Rémi Demerlé
Browan Communications anchored the pavilion with a display of both their gateway and end-node portfolio, giving attendees a sense of the range of hardware available for network build-outs of any scale.
Dragino focused their exhibit on real-world IoT deployments, particularly in smart buildings and agriculture. Their lineup of temperature sensors, humidity sensors and other environmental monitoring nodes drew interest from visitors looking to understand how LoRaWAN performs in field conditions where reliable, low-power sensing is critical.
RAKwireless and MultiTech both brought their gateway and end-node products, reinforcing the message that LoRaWAN infrastructure is mature, widely available and backed by multiple competing manufacturers. An important signal for enterprises evaluating the technology.
Tektelic stood out with a broad sensor portfolio covering temperature, pressure and environmental monitoring. The highlight of their display was their 7-in-1 multi-parameter sensor, a single device capable of measuring a wide range of conditions simultaneously, exactly the kind of practical consolidation that makes enterprise IoT deployments more manageable and cost-effective.
Sindcon brought something different to the pavilion: gas and water metering solutions built around a retrofit module designed to sit directly on top of an existing water meter. It is a compelling approach to infrastructure modernization that does not require replacing hardware already in the ground. A critical consideration for utilities and smart city operators looking to digitize aging assets without wholesale replacement. Sindcon revealed a new partnership with DIEHL Metering to enable their retrofit LoRaWAN module for connecting water meters from DIEHL Metering.
Seeed Studio and the Edge AI Moment
Seeed Studio's Edge AI camera is pointed to one of the most important conversations in IoT today.
Seeed's camera node runs image analysis directly on the device. Rather than streaming raw video to the cloud for processing, the camera performs inference at the edge and transmits only the result. A classification, an alert, a count. The raw image data never leaves the device.
For LoRaWAN, this is a near-perfect pairing. LoRaWAN's long-range, low-power communication profile has always been optimized for transmitting small, meaningful payloads rather than high-bandwidth streams. Edge AI closes the loop: process locally, transmit intelligently. Seeed Studio's demo was a live, working proof point of that principle in action.
Looking Ahead
Asia Tech x Singapore delivered on every front: ecosystem visibility, partner engagement, commercial leads, and technical demonstrations that pushed the boundaries of what visitors expected from LoRaWAN. The Kerlink–Integrasia gateway agreement alone underscored the scale of opportunity in Southeast Asia, and the reception at the LoRa Alliance pavilion made clear that awareness and momentum in the region are building fast.
One thing is certain: LoRaWAN's story in Asia is only getting started.
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