Riot attended LPWA 2017 in London, soaking up the collective thinking of the ecosystem through two days of talks. What follows is an account of this industry mindset, which appears to have undergone subtle changes in the past year. The key takeaways are that metering, industrial, and agriculture appear to still be the most compelling use cases, a $5 NB-IoT module is now expected and treated as a given, and more MNOs are pursuing NB-IoT than LTE-M (formerly Cat-M1). The two-days saw a lot of new detail come to the fore, chronicling the shifts in the wider low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) ecosystem as the licensed and unlicensed stakeholders bring their cattle to market. Notably, a change in the nomenclature sees…