SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, April 20, 2026 The OPC Foundation is pleased to announce a new joint working group effort with the LoRa Alliance to develop a mapping from LoRaWAN to OPC UA, bringing together two highly complementary technologies that play important roles in the future of industrial and IoT connectivity. This collaboration aims to define how data and information models originating from LoRaWAN-based devices and systems can be represented in OPC UA, enabling improved interoperability between low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) deployments and industrial automation, enterprise and cloud-based systems.
LoRaWAN and OPC UA address different but highly synergistic layers of the digital ecosystem. LoRaWAN is widely used for low-power, long-range wireless communication, making it ideal for distributed sensing, remote monitoring, metering and battery-operated field devices. OPC UA, by contrast, provides a robust, platform-independent framework for secure information modeling and interoperable data exchange across industrial and enterprise environments. Together, they offer a powerful combination: efficient wireless connectivity at the edge, paired with semantically rich and standardized data integration across operational and information technology systems. Creating a structured mapping between LoRaWAN and OPC UA will make it easier for users, vendors and solution providers to integrate LoRaWAN-based data streams into OPC UA-enabled architectures. This integration will support a broad range of use cases across industrial automation, smart infrastructure, energy, building systems, environmental monitoring and digital transformation initiatives.
The kickoff meeting for the new joint working group will take place on May 13, 2026. Organizations and individuals interested in contributing to this work are warmly invited to participate.
“By working together on a common mapping approach, we can help simplify integration and accelerate adoption across a wide range of industrial and IoT scenarios,” said Alper Yegin, CEO, LoRa Alliance.
“This collaboration reflects the growing need to connect diverse communication technologies with interoperable information models,” said Stefan Hoppe, president, OPC Foundation. “LoRaWAN and OPC UA are highly complementary, and this initiative will help users unlock greater value from both.”
The OPC Foundation welcomes participation from end users, technology providers, standards experts and ecosystem partners who want to help shape this work. Those interested in joining the working group are encouraged to reach out for more information.
About the LoRa Alliance
The LoRa Alliance is an open, nonprofit association that develops and promotes the LoRaWAN standard and product certification program. With the highest accessibility, most robust ecosystem, and widest global adoption of any LPWAN technology, LoRaWAN is the leading IoT LPWAN standard and an essential fourth pillar of global wireless connectivity, complementing cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. The LoRa Alliance has become one of the largest and fastest-growing alliances in the technology sector since its inception in 2015, with more than 300 members.
About the OPC Foundation
Since 1996, the OPC Foundation has facilitated the development and adoption of the OPC information exchange standards. As both advocate and custodian of these specifications, the Foundation’s mission is to help industry vendors, end-users, and software developers maintain interoperability in their manufacturing and automation assets. The OPC Foundation is dedicated providing the best specifications, technology, process and certification to achieve multivendor, multiplatform, secure, reliable interoperability for moving data and information from the embedded world to the enterprise cloud. The Foundation serves over 1010 members worldwide in the Industrial Automation, IT, IoT, IIoT, M2M, Industrie 4.0, Building Automation, machine tools, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and Smart Energy sectors.
