The State of LoRaWAN in 2025

A Conversation with Alper Yegin from LoRa Alliance

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IoT For All
February 25, 2025

Hello listeners!

On this week’s podcast, Ryan Chacon speaks with Alper Yegin, President and CEO of the LoRa Alliance, about the current state of LoRaWAN. The conversation covers LoRaWAN adoption and use cases, the impact of AI and edge, LoRaWAN certification and interoperability, misconceptions about LoRaWAN, and the future of LoRaWAN.

Where Are We With LoRaWAN?

Meet Alper Yegin

Alper Yegin is the President and CEO of the LoRa Alliance. He oversees the organization’s strategic direction and supports the development and global adoption of LoRaWAN, a key standard for low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN) in the Internet of Things (IoT). Before becoming CEO, he chaired the LoRa Alliance Technical Committee for eight years and served as Vice-Chair of the board for seven years.

With over 25 years of experience in the IoT, mobile, and wireless communication industries, Yegin has held senior roles, including CTO at Actility, and various positions at Samsung Electronics, DoCoMo, and Sun Microsystems. He has contributed to global standards development in organizations such as IETF, 3GPP, ETSI, Zigbee Alliance, WiMAX Forum, and IPv6 Forum. Yegin holds 16 patents and has authored numerous technical standards and papers.

About LoRa Alliance

The LoRa Alliance is an open, non-profit association that has grown into one of the largest and fastest-growing alliances in the technology industry since its inception in 2015. Its members work closely together and share knowledge to develop and disseminate the LoRaWAN standard, the de facto global standard for secure, quality IoT LPWAN bearer connectivity.