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REAL USE CASE SOLUTION itk, a leading French supplier of IoT-based smart agriculture applications, developed a cattle health monitoring solution leveraging LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® protocol. e product, FarmLife®, is a smart agriculture service, and its LoRa-enabled sensors drive improved nutrition, predict the onset of disease and detect estrus and calving to help ranchers better monitor their herd. Unlike other solutions, the sensors deploy simply through a collar equipped to each animal. e collar is non-invasive and immediately begins reporting data on the cow's health. Services are available through itk's FarmLife Cloud platform. In total, deploying itk's solution costs less than 30€ per animal annually. In addition to the 300,000 cows already monitored in Europe, approximately 20 ranches have deployed itk's platform in North America. Following this initial deployment, ranchers claimed they received an ROI in less than a year through an increase in ranch productivity and efficiency. EASE OF DEPLOYMENT LoRa devices deploy quickly and simply with minimal additional infrastructure. itk's FarmLife solution deploys onto the cow itself, and transmits data consistently for years at a time without needing costly, frequent maintenance. EXTENSIVE COVERAGE A single LoRa-based gateway provides miles of network coverage. is enables consistent connectivity for the largest ranches, and real-time data on cow wellbeing and location on the property. COST-EFFICIENT Leveraging up-to-the-minute data on cattle health, ranchers detect changes in a cow's vitals, such as body temperature, to predict the onset of disease, estrus and other biological phenomena. e LoRa-based solutions drastically improve quality of life for the cattle, resulting in higher quality milk and meat, greater earnings for the rancher, and a quick ROI. CATTLE HEALTH MONITORING 7 "LoRa devices' flexibility in deployment makes a key difference for connecting animals and offers the potential for a significant ROI. Our unique solution provides ranchers with tangible, actionable data on the health of their herd to remove variables from ranching and create productive, efficient and profitable ranches." Eric Jallas CEO at itk Semtech Corporation - LoRa Devices Real World Solutions - Smart Agriculture semtech.com/LoRa 30€ itk's solution costs less than 30€ per animal annually 300,000+ More than 300,000 cows connected and increasing worldwide <1 Year Ranchers typically see a ROI in less than one year

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