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A Deep Dive into LPWAN Technology.

Welcome to our dedicated section on mioty® studies. We explore the capabilities of this cutting-edge Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technology, focusing on how it addresses challenges like data throughput, energy efficiency, coverage, cost, and scalability in the IoT landscape.

mioty®’s core innovation is its patented “Telegram Splitting” technology. Unlike traditional LPWANs, mioty® breaks messages into many sub-packets, distributing them across different frequencies and time slots. This significantly enhances robustness against interference and signal loss, ensuring highly reliable data connections.

New Position Paper: New Opportunities for LPWAN in the Electricity Market with Smart Meter Light

Our new position paper (in German) explores how the new Smart Meter Light concept could enable a pragmatic approach to digital electricity metering for households and smaller consumers. It examines how established OMS standards, defined security mechanisms and LPWAN connectivity can provide the foundation for reliable remote meter reading without requiring full smart meter gateway infrastructure in every use case.

What’s inside?

The paper takes a closer look at the potential of Smart Meter Light as a lean and secure approach to remote meter reading, particularly for households and smaller consumers where active grid control is not required.

Key topics covered:

  • The mass-market opportunity: Why 70–80% of electricity metering points could benefit from a simpler, read-only approach.

  • OMS as the foundation: How existing interoperability and security mechanisms can support Smart Meter Light.

  • mioty® and multi-utility networks: How LPWAN connectivity could extend existing water and heat infrastructure to electricity metering.

Why read it?

The position paper provides a pragmatic perspective on how electricity metering could be digitalised with less complexity and infrastructure investment. It shows how utilities can build on standards and wireless networks they already use while opening the door to a scalable multi-utility approach.

Download our new position paper now!

Whitepaper: How to move to mioty® as a Device Maker

What’s inside?

This whitepaper, published by the mioty Alliance, is a practical guide for device manufacturers looking to expand their IoT product portfolio with mioty® technology. It is especially relevant for companies already using LPWAN technologies like LoRaWAN and considering mioty® as an additional or alternative option.

Target group:

This whitepaper is written for device manufacturers who want to expand their products with modern IoT connectivity. It is especially relevant for companies that already use LPWAN technologies such as LoRaWAN and are looking for ways to add mioty® as an additional option. The reader should have a basic technical understanding of how LPWAN works, but no deep expertise is required. The goal is to provide practical guidance that helps product managers, engineers, and developers make informed decisions on how to bring mioty® into their existing or future devices.

Key topics covered:

  • An introduction to mioty® and its advantages in high-density, interference-prone environments
  • A comparison between mioty® and other LPWAN technologies, highlighting similarities and key differences
  • Step-by-step guidance on migrating from LoRaWAN to mioty®, including hardware compatibility, integration options, and licensing considerations
  • A list of supported chipsets and practical advice for product managers, engineers, and developers

Why read it?

The whitepaper demonstrates that adding mioty® support can often be achieved with minimal effort, sometimes without any hardware redesign. It’s a valuable resource for anyone aiming to future-proof their IoT devices and tap into new market opportunities with scalable, robust, and efficient connectivity.

Download our whitepaper now!

mioty® vs. LoRa Comparative Study Report

This report from Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joerg Robert (Technische Universtität Ilmenau) compares the performance of two Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs), mioty and LoRa, through real-world measurements and theoretical analyses.

Key findings indicate mioty generally outperforms LoRa across various metrics:

  • Capacity: mioty offers significantly higher capacity, supporting 44,000 packets per minute compared to LoRa’s approximately 1 packet per minute (at 1% packet loss, maximum robustness). This makes mioty about 1100 times more efficient in handling high device density. The report stresses that field trials with few devices can be misleading as they don’t expose LoRa’s capacity limitations under high load, which can lead to network collapse after widespread rollout.

  • Interference Resistance: mioty demonstrates strong resilience to interference, a crucial factor in urban areas where licensed-exempt frequency bands are often crowded. LoRa, conversely, shows high sensitivity to interference, which can drastically reduce its communication range in such environments.
  • Mobility: mioty performs much better in mobile scenarios, supporting speeds exceeding 160 km/h. LoRa’s mobile performance is limited to significantly lower speeds, even in its most robust modes.
  • Energy Efficiency: At comparable robustness levels, mioty is more energy-efficient, with transmitters potentially lasting over three times longer on the same battery as a LoRa transmitter. While LoRa offers more flexible reception levels for energy saving in specific bidirectional configurations, mioty maintains superior efficiency at high robustness.

mioty® vs. LoRa-FHSS Study Report

This study evaluates LoRa-FHSS performance against classical LoRa and mioty through comprehensive literature reviews. LoRa-FHSS, similar to mioty, uses frequency hopping and forward error correction but differs entirely from classical LoRa in its physical layer. Classical LoRa transceivers cannot decode LoRa-FHSS, which relies on a software-defined radio approach, making it suitable only for uplink due to its high decoding complexity.

LoRa FH-SS addresses the problem LoRa has with network capacity, making LoRa FH-SS 100 times better. But it comes at a high price:

  • Energy consumption is 40% higher than LoRa SF12 (making it 6 times more power hungry than mioty!)
  • Sensitivity goes down 3dB in comparison with LoRa SF12 (lowering the range)
  • Transmission and on-air time goes up (limiting the no of messages allowed to send within the duty cycle limitations)
  • The header bursts are not robust, making LoRa FH-SS vulnerable to noise, especially classical LoRa signals (LoRa will disturb LoRa FH-SS messages!)