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White Paper — How to Deploy a LoRa®-based Network for your IoT Application Page 3 of 4 How to Deploy a LoRa®-based Network for your IoT Application Renesas partners with Medium One to provide a complete LoRa-based IoT solution that can be applied to many use cases. The LoRa®-based IoT solution developed by Renesas and Medium One, named "Dots on a Map", leverages the advantages of a LoRa®-based network, the RX family of MCUs developed by Renesas, an array of powerful sensors, and the cloud solution offered by Medium One to provide smart sensor-rich nodes sending data over long distances to be monitored and analyzed in the Cloud in real-time. The goal of the Dots on a Map solution is to provide the user with rich sensor data from a widespread set of locations that may not be reachable with normal Ethernet, WiFi, or even cellular uplinks, without requiring an expensive infrastructure. Another goal is to provide the user with an intuitive means to analyze the data and to make the data actionable. The Dots on a Map hardware solution architecture is shown on the right. Many sensor nodes can be connected to the internet by placing them within the radius of a gateway node. Multiple gateway nodes can be supported in this solution. Each gateway node is placed within the radius of a WiFi access point. Finally, the WiFi access point provides the uplink to the internet for the data to reach the powerful Dots on a Map Cloud. This flexible architecture allows for a scalable IoT solution to be implemented without significant capital costs. Each part of this solution is designed to meet the stated goals while also being cheaper to deploy and maintain than similar solutions based on alternative technologies. The following sections describe each component of this solution in more detail.