Morse Micro has announced that its WiFi HaLow (802.11ah) SoC is being integrated into a module from AzureWave Technologies, for a low-power WiFi offering that is being pitched at IoT applications. The deal might be the start of renewed interest in the protocol, and the lack of momentum from rival protocols has not gone unnoticed. HaLow appears well behind schedule. The finished spec was published in 2017, as IEEE 802.11ah, and despite the wave of smart home hype it could have caught, the technology was largely ignored by the wireless IoT crowd. For long-range applications, the battle was still raging in the unlicensed LPWAN game, essentially between LoRa and Sigfox, with the cellular equivalents still not mature enough to capture…