The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), handling Wi-Fi industry cooperation and initiatives, has said Wi-Fi HaLow is ready to rock in “commercial IoT deployments across a range of sectors”. As such, it has issued a new white paper with a bunch of likely deployment scenarios in different verticals – including in smart homes, cities, buildings, retail, industry, and agriculture. Its pitch is that the low-power Wi-Fi HaLow technology extends Wi-Fi into more IoT applications, and goes up against the likes of short-range Bluetooth and Zigbee and long-range LoRa, NB-IoT, and LTE-M.
