Eyebrows have been raised in the low-power WAN world at the success of the Weightless protocol, which many had believed to be defunct, in Taiwan’s smart metering sector There, local IoT firm Ubiik just secured another order, worth $17m, from Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) for 450,000 additional meters. This will become part of Taipower’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system which will then have over 1m of the devices connected by Weightless. The surprise is that many assumed Weightless had sunk almost without trace, with few references to it among analysts or technical publications since 2017, although as it happens Wireless Watch has charted its progress since then. But Ubiik has continued to promote the protocol on its technical merits, presenting…