LPWA
Low Power Wide Area
Often associated with Mobile IoT (Internet of Things), Low Power Wide Area is a generic term for a group of technologies with the following characteristics; long battery life, (10 years +), wide area coverage, low chipset costs and limited data throughput. Technologies under this group include EC-GSM (Extended Coverage GSM), LTE-M (Long Term Evolution – Machine to Machine) and NB-IoT (Narrow Band – Internet of Things).