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White Paper — How to Deploy a LoRa®-based Network for your IoT Application Page 6 of 7 provides high value information back to the customer and allows them to control their experience with the solution. The Applications for Dots on a Map There are several use cases to which the Dots on a Map solution can be applied. To generalize, the use cases fall into the categories of asset tracking and remote asset control. Asset tracking is the ability to monitor critical pieces of information regarding your assets. For example, the trucks in a retailer's trucking fleet are valuable assets and, in more cases than not, many fleet owners would like real-time information on their trucks. The most critical piece of information is typically the truck's current location, but additional data is also often desired such as the location over time, fuel efficiency, tire wear, etc. In other asset tracking applications, geo-fencing a set of assets to ensure that they stay within a certain area provides the most value to the organization. However, location is not always the critical piece of information. The desired data could be anything. One possible metric is power consumption, such as for smart power meters deployed by a city power company. Other assets may need to relay audio signals or the current level of air quality. Subject to the range limitations of the technology, the Dots on a Map solution can be applied to solve these kinds of applications. Asset control is the ability to control the behavior of the asset by sending commands to the gateway with a specific end node as the intended recipient. The gateway then sends the commands to the end node. While the Dots on a Map solution does not currently support cloud-to-device communication, the end node firmware can easily be extended to achieve this, allowing use-cases like smart street lighting to be solved.