With Sigfox and LoRa the current big-names in the Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) space, companies looking to embrace the IoT networking technologies can now (fairly simply) go out and set one up. As it stands, doing so would currently tie that customer into the ecosystem of one the two leaders, as both technologies use proprietary IP. For many businesses, this isn’t an issue in the slightest – it’s almost a fact of life. But there will always be a market for the open standard implementation, and while it might not be as big as the proprietary alternatives (think of Linux vs. Windows in terms of PC share), the open standards often fill a practical, and sometimes political, purpose.…