LoRa goes into orbit in bid as IoT protocol wars wage on The LoRa LP WAN IoT wireless protocol has been expanding its terrestrial reach through satellite connectivity as its advocates bid for it to become a truly global technology. In the latest move, Semtech, the California based developer of LoRa, has extended an earlier initiative with Netherlands-based satellite IoT company Lacuna Space to expand terrestrial LoRaWAN connectivity. This follows an earlier comparable deal with Eutelsat, the Paris-based satellite platform operator, which applied the same long-range frequency-hopping spread spectrum (LR-FHSS) recently added to the LoRaWAN standard. LR-FHSS is included in Semtech’s latest software upgrade for LoRa integrated circuits (IC) and gateways, which allows satellite uplink connectivity from IoT devices on the…