Analysts from Wireless Watch’s sister service, Rethink IoT, attended the LPWA 2017 conference in London last week, soaking up the collective thinking of the ecosystem over two days of talks. The mindset of the LPWAN (low power wide area network) sector appears to have undergone changes in the past year. The key takeaways are that metering, industrial IoT and agriculture appear to still be the most compelling use cases; a $5 module for the cellular LPWA standard, NB-IoT, is now treated as a given; and more MNOs are pursuing NB-IoT than the earlier-stage 3GPP spec LTE-M (formerly Cat-M1). The two days saw a lot of new detail come to the fore, chronicling the shifts in the wider LPWAN ecosystem as…