Semtech to help Swisscom participants build compelling IoT solutions

Programmers, solutions makers, applications designers and entrepreneurs are expected to participate in the free hackathon, a two-day competition for people to conceptualize, create and present complete IoT projects. Participants will receive introductions to key IoT technologies, including LoRa, before kicking off the hackathon portion of the event. Teams will be eligible to win one of two awards from a jury of IoT experts and from the audience. The hackathon is hosted by Swisscom in partnership with Impact Hub Zürich, a recently opened co-working space.

“Semtech is excited to participate in this fun and educational event that will introduce some of Europe’s brightest developers and entrepreneurs to the IoT revolution and our standout LoRa RF technology,” said Hardy Schmidbauer, Director of Wireless Products, Semtech. “This is a great opportunity for IoT solutions providers, telecomms operators and other IoT industry leaders to come together and educate the community about LPWAN.”

Semtech and the Swisscom M2M/IoT Centre of Competence hosted 40 hackathon participants at its LoRa Boot Camp in Zürich on the 28^th of October in order to train the participants with a working LoRa starter kit and better equip them for both the November hackathon and the growing IoT landscape in general.

Semtech’s LoRa platform includes the SX1301 baseband processor embedded in base stations and the SX1272/3/6/7/8 transceiver chipsets embedded in sensors to provide long-range connectivity, operating on low power for long battery life. LoRaWAN is a standardised protocol that offers bi-directionality, security, mobility, accurate localisation and most importantly, interoperability between LPWAN networks and IoT, M2M and smart city applications.