Monitoring and controlling food storage temperatures at all stages of the cold chain is a critical aspect of food safety. Any break in the chain can lead to food waste, the risk of foodborne illnesses, and a failure to adhere to standardized regulations. Thanks to the robustness of LoRaWAN technology, wireless sensors are now better able to handle the performance requirements of demanding environments located in food service organizations including commercial restaurants, warehouses, transport vehicles, and every other stage of the food cold chain. This webinar discusses how the right LoRaWAN system can ensure the most effective cold chain monitoring.

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Cold Chain Monitoring:
19 September 2019
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How Wireless Monitoring
Ensures Food Safety

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Agenda
• Introductions
• About LoRa and LoRaWAN
• Cold Chain Monitoring – Ensuring Food Safety
o Market Problems
o Key Benefits
o Laird Connectivity Solutions for Cold Chain Monitoring
- Sensors
- Gateways
• The Things Industries – Overview
o The Role of a LoRaWAN Network Server
o Integration with Cloud Platforms and Gateways
• TTI & Laird Connectivity – Working Together
• Summary and Q&A

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Meet the Presenter
Jonathan Kaye
Jonathan Kaye is the Senior Director, Product Management
for Laird Connectivity with nearly 20 years of experience in
the embedded wireless and product design field.

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CTO & Co-founder of The Things Industries and
Tech Lead of The Things Network. Co-author of
the LoRaWAN specifications.
Meet the Presenter
Johan Stokking

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About LoRa® & LoRaWAN™

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LoRa®
• Wireless modulation technology
• Physical layer for long-range communications
• Low bandwidth
• Low battery usage
• In license-free ISM bands around the world
– 433, 868, 915 MHz
– Regulated (power, duty-cycle, bandwidth)
• Sensitivity: -142 dBm
• Link Budget (EU): 156 dB
• Resistant against interference, multi-path,
attenuation
• Deep indoor coverage

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LoRaWAN™
• Communications protocol and architecture on
LoRa PHY
• Data rates ranging from 300bps to 5.5kbps
• Supports bi-directional communication
• AES 128 bit symmetric encryption
• LoRa Alliance® maintains:
– Core specification
– Regional parameters
– Back-end interfaces
– Certification
• Build private networks

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Cold Chain Monitoring:
Ensuring Food Safety

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The Need for Wireless
in Cold Chain Monitoring
Monitoring and controlling food storage at all stages
of the cold chain is critical. Automation of monitoring,
including data logging and alerting, leads to:
• Reduced potential for human error, increased accuracy
• Simplified and automated compliance recording
• Reduced food waste
• Increased productivity and operational efficiency
• Protection of your brand
• Your global data set and sensor base being centralized
• Enhanced food safety
Simply Put – Food Safety and Operational Efficiency

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Why LoRaWAN for
Cold Chain Monitoring?
• Restaurants and food prep areas are not universal
– Multi-floor, old/new construction materials, differing
layouts and kitchens generally in the ‘back/bowels’
– Kitchens packed with large metal appliances (fridges,
freezers, industrial ovens, smokers, fryers, etc.)
• Sensors need placing in these environments, presenting
severe challenges for wireless connectivity
• The wireless sensors need to be battery powered to simplify,
and ease installation
• Once fitted the batteries need to last multi years before
replacement for low cost maintenance
• Number of sensors required changes with each location – all
needing to send their data through harsh RF environments,
robustly and reliably
• Finally to ensure automated compliance logging and employee
alerting, all this data needs to be bridged smoothly through to
cloud-based server solutions.
LoRaWAN delivers
all of this and more!

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Laird Connectivity’s
Proven Solutions
for Cold Chain
Data from sensors provide
dashboard for business
owners to access information.
• Sensor 1: Warning
• Sensor 2: OK
• Sensor 3: OK
Warning: Low Temperature
Business Owner accesses
real-time information about
his or her business.

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Sentrius™
RG1xx Gateway
LoRa®, Wi-Fi®, & Ethernet in
one powerful Linux-based
gateway solution
CUSTOMIZATION
Custom enclosures, labels,
product development
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Seamlessly Cloud-connect
your LoRa data with enterprise
Wi-Fi security
• Powered by Atmel A5 Core
@536MHz running Embedded Linux
4.x Kernel
• LoRa, Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n) and
Ethernet connectivity
• Seamless connectivity with Laird
Connectivity's innovative Sentrius
RG1xx Series sensor ranges
• Optional external IP67 housing
• Integrated Pre-Sets for TTN

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Environmental
Temperature and Humidity
Self-contained IP65 sensor for
monitoring ambient conditions
Sentrius™ RS1XX LoRa and Bluetooth Sensor Family
For cold chain monitoring applications in the toughest environments
• Robust LoRa radio allows for transmission through metal, even walk-in refrigerators and freezers
• Last years on replaceable 2x AA-batteries
• IP65-rated and large operating temperature range for difficult environments
• Configuration over LoRa network or Bluetooth mobile app
• Local datalogging capabilities giving continuous traceability even through power outages
• EU/US and a growing list of countries in the AU915/ AS923 regions - Australia / New Zealand and Taiwan
• Customization options available
Open/Close Door Sensor
Contact sensor on external
probe can detect when doors
are left open
RTD external probe
Supporting higher temperature
range options with prevision
RTD probes
4.2
External Temp Probe
1.3m (52”) externally cabled
probe allows for greater range
of temperature measurement
AVAILABLE IN Q1 2020AVAILABLE IN Q4 2019

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Customised Solutions
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No matter what your wireless design needs are, Laird Connectivity has a solution right for you.
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LoRaWAN Modules
• Sentrius™ IoT Platforms – Sensors
and Gateways
• Embedded Antennas
• Tuf Duck Antennas & Dipoles
• Customer Logo / Labels
• Custom Enclosure / Colour
• Custom Configuration Programming
• Application Specific Firmware / Mobile App
• Hardware / Sensor Customization
• Secure, Signed Firmware
• Custom Housing Design
• Firmware Customization and Development
• Hardware Design Customization
• Balance user Experience & Aesthetics with
Electrical & RF Design
• Cloud Integration
Standard Products Customer Specific SolutionsCustomise Standard Products

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LoRaWAN Network Server
What is it and why do you need it

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• Features the popular MQTT and HTTP web hook
integrations
• Commercial cloud platform integration:
– AWS IoT
– Azure IoT Hub
– Google Cloud IoT Core
• More optional, zero effort, commercial integrations
for leading IoT platforms
• Easy to integrate directly in your application
through HTTP web hooks
Integrations

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• Maintains connections with gateways
• Supports gRPC, MQTT, UDP and Basic Station
protocols
• Authenticated and encrypted connection
• Manages gateway’s duty cycle
• Forwards uplink traffic to a Network Server or Peering
Broker
• Serves frequency plan to the gateway
• Supports standard or custom frequency plans
V3 Gateway Server

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• Supports LoRaWAN versions 1.0.x and 1.1.x
• Supports device classes A and C
• Supports back-end interfaces
• Supports all regional parameters
• Supports firmware updates over the air
The Things Enterprise stack

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• Offers comprehensive debugging tools
• Fine-grained user management
• Fine-grained per device PHY and MAC
settings
• Customizable frequency plans
• SAML/SSO to integrate seamlessly with
organizational systems
The Things Enterprise stack

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Deployment Models
Private
gateways
Multi-
tenant
Multi-
region
Auto-
scaling
SLA Support
V2
availability
V3
availability
Cloud
Hosted
Y Y Y Y Y Y today 2019 Q4
Dedicated
Cloud
Hosted
Y Y Y Y Y Y today 2020 Q1
Self Hosted Y Y Y - - Y today 2019 Q4
Marketplace
Launcher
Y Y Y - - Y -
today on:

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Why Laird Connectivity and
The Things Industries?

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Insights
Products
You need partners and
vendors for a successful IoT
solution.
But how can you manage
complexity while keeping
control of what matters?
• Connectivity
• Hardware
• Firmware
• Brand
• Data
• Security
Laird Connectivity & TTI – Successful IoT Needs Partnerships

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Customer benefits
• Save time on configuring and installing hardware
– Gateways can be pre-configured to TTI
– Devices can be pre-registered to TTI
• Get the right support when needed
– Our engineers collaborate behind the scenes
• Make sure you’re using the next generation tools
– Gateway monitoring and management
– Automated device claiming
– Single-click, QR-code based hardware
installations
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Resources:
• Cold Chain White Paper: tti.fyi/coldchain-whitepaper
• Semtech PR on ComplianceMate: tti.fyi/semtech-laird-coldchain
• Cold Chain webpage: www.lairdconnect.com/market/cold-chain-monitoring
• Request a demo: tti.fyi/request-demo
• What is LoRaWAN? : lora-alliance.org
Q&A