FREMONT, Calif. — The LoRa Alliance, a global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN standard for IoT low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), announced yesterday it has added numerous new testing capabilities to its LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT).
The LCTT enhancements expand the self-testing that end-device manufacturers can perform to validate their devices’ performance before seeking formal certification from a LoRa Alliance authorized test house (ATH), explains a press release.
“The ability to self-test significantly accelerates the certification process while offering much greater return on investment (ROI) savings,” the release reads.
“A strong certification program is a must for any global standard to be successful,” said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance, in the press release.
“The LoRa Alliance continuously enhances its certification program to ensure certification testing tools are robust while also minimizing the time and cost required to certify. RFPs and tenders for IoT deployments are increasingly requiring LoRaWAN certification. These enhancements to the LCTT make it easier than ever for end-device manufacturers to validate reliability and interoperability, thereby accelerating deployment effectiveness and enabling massive scale,” Moore said.
The new testing capabilities incorporated into the LCTT include the following:
- LoRaWAN Layer 2 (L2) – v1.0.2 and v1.0.4 specifications, including:
- Class A, B and C
- Long Range Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (LR-FHSS)
- Back-off retransmission
- Certification by similarity
- Regional Parameters v1.02 and 1.03
- OTAA/ABP
- Adaptive Data Rate
- Transmit Power Control
- Confirmed/Unconfirmed Frame Tests
- Receive Window Tests
- Cryptography Tests
- Add/Modify Channel Tests
- Retransmission of Confirmed Frames
Once certified, LoRa Alliance members’ products will be listed in the alliance’s LoRaWAN Showcase, an official listing of LoRaWAN certified devices that provides manufacturers with global product visibility to help grow their businesses, the release says.
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