On the back of an 180,000 smart metering deal in Norway, Ericsson is riding the wave of European smart meter deployments to help it get ahead in the LPWAN race. With specialized offerings like LoRa, Sigfox and Weightless all engaged in standards activity and heading towards licensed spectrum, Ericsson is on a mission to prove that cellular solutions – from GSM to the emerging LTE-MTC standards – remain the best choice for smart city applications. Emerging smart city or government platforms need a very low cost, very low power wireless network which can cover a whole city easily and be easily integrated into a common data platform. In the past, these long range machine-to-machine services were usually handled by GSM,…