With Weightless (see separate piece), LoRa and Sigfox announcing a number of wins between them this week, it seems that the central theme for 2015 will be the rise of these low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), and the businesses they power. While 2016 may be the year that WiFi and cellular catch up, with 802.11ah and LTE Category 1 and 0 respectively, for now, the LPWANs are charging on with multiple announcements this week. First off the bat; The LoRa Alliance has announced the launch of v1.0 of LoRaWAN, available to download from its website with public release status. Previous literature had made mention of LoRaMAC, a spec for end-devices, and LoRaWAN, the version for gateways, but Ståle Pettersen from Semtech…