Semtech has announced that Digimondo, a new E.ON-backed startup, have partnered to rollout a LoRa network in Germany. Initially covering, Nuremburg, Hamburg, and Berlin, the new network will be aimed at asset tracking, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), and air quality monitoring. Unsurprisingly, E.ON is Digimondo’s first major customer. Separately, Sigfox has announced that it is expanding into Germany, on the back of the country’s Industrie 4.0 initiative – a sort of cross-vertical industrial movement that is adding connectivity to business processes, which is pretty much analogous with Industrial IoT (IIoT). Sigfox says its German network will be complete by the end of 2017, and will be the 14th country the network caters for. Digimondo and Semtech said that the infrastructure…