LoRaWAN
The long-range, low-power radio network cities build when they want to own the layer their sensors talk over rather than rent it from a carrier.
How this list is decided. Membership is not a field an editor set: it is every published entry whose own text names LoRaWAN, matched at build time, with the sentence printed under each row so you can judge the match yourself. 20 entries in 18 cities. For what the term means rather than who uses it, see LoRaWAN in the glossary.
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Orange Romania built the data layer of its own trials: a LoRaWAN network of six gateways covering the city, about 100 street lights with LoRa modules, air-quality monitors on 15 buses, and more than 228 Wi-Fi access points in the fortress and city.
Alsfeld's 'Zeitsprung' project (EUR125,000 in Starke Heimat Hessen funding) builds an open LoRaWAN data platform for its medieval half-timbered old town, starting with sensors for parking occupancy, traffic flow, air quality, heat islands and building energy use.
Bad Nauheim's Digital City-Centre Management (EUR936,540 in Starke Heimat Hessen funding) uses LoRaWAN sensors to track footfall, traffic, fill levels in compactor smart bins, and microclimate — feeding an open urban-data platform whose public Bürgercockpit backs evidence-based decisions.
Cyberjaya wired lampposts, parking bays and air-quality stations onto a shared LoRaWAN network under a public-private innovation council — then added Malaysia's first drone testing zone the following year.
Dortmund's municipal utility DEW21 built a LoRaWAN radio network across the city and reported near-complete outdoor coverage by the end of 2019; on 29 October 2019 it founded DOdata GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary co-steered with the city, to run the network and a smart-city data hub under municipal control.
The city's standing project page: project status completed, duration 2017–2023, a project budget of 4.5 million euros, MOBI points in Johannstadt, tenant electricity tariffs, a LoRaWAN network, a digital twin of the 102nd primary school and a central building management system for municipal buildings.
Most of what the dashboards show is not the city's own kit: the sensors sit on the utility's LoRaWAN network.
Mainova, the municipal utility, switched on a citywide LoRaWAN on 23 June 2020 with about 20 gateways spread across the city area; by late 2021 the operator counted roughly 60.
Four sub-projects fitted Frankfurt's groundwater stations, soils and streams with LoRaWAN sensors, giving city departments live data on water levels, rainfall and quality — scientifically evaluated by ISOE and Hochschule Fresenius.
Since July 2025 Gründau has published a live "heat map" on its homepage, showing temperature, humidity and air pressure from sensors at seven playgrounds across all districts, carried over the municipality's LoRaWAN network (built since 2022).
Hanau's smart city framework, approved by the city council on 16 December 2024: six action fields and 13 existing flagship projects, tied to an expanding LoRaWAN sensor network and a city data platform and GIS that are still being built out.
Underneath sat a LoRaWAN network covering the city and Cisco's 'platform of platforms', a catalogue of around a thousand data sets exposed through a single API.
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Trade press reported that Wellness TechGroup was installing a control node on each light, connected over a LoRaWAN network run by NNNCo.
Munich's municipal utility SWM began building a citywide LoRaWAN radio network in 2018 — around ten gateways planned in the first year, 60 by September 2022 — and rented it to outside businesses.
FloodNet is a network of low-cost ultrasonic sensors that measure street-level flood depth to within one inch every minute, transmitting over LoRaWAN or cellular to a free real-time public dashboard.
Osaka's municipal waterworks bureau tested radio-linked water meters over LoRaWAN from 2015 to 2017, then in April 2019 fitted 81 meters at 63 sites in the Nanko Sakishima waterfront area so they could be read remotely instead of on foot.
Describes the wireless sensor network approach and LoRaWAN evaluation
Since 2019 Wiener Netze and Wien Energie have expanded a LoRaWAN sensor network, targeting 450 gateway locations citywide by 2029 (Actility's ThingPark platform from 2023; network-server tender won by The Things Industries in 2025).
A citizen association's Bürgernetz Luftqualität pilot tests compact LoRaWAN sensors on balconies and school roofs, with a plan to add mobile units on up to 50 trolleybuses; Phase 1 (April-July 2026) validated just 3 sensors against the official OSTLUFT reference station, with data published as open government data.
Zurich's city-owned utility ewz and the municipal IT department OIZ have run a citywide LoRaWAN, routing sensor data into the city's own data centre and offering it to every department.
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