Carl Data Solutions Inc. announced that it joined the LoRa Alliance, a nonprofit association with over 500 members dedicated to advancing the adoption and implementation of the low-power long-range wide-area networking LoRaWAN standard. While the LoRaWAN standard is popular in Europe and other overseas countries it is relatively new in North America. Carl Data Solutions is one of only eight Canadian members that include six other companies and the University of Saskatchewan. LoRa stands for Long Range. The LoRaWAN connectivity standard is a proprietary low-power wide-area wireless radio frequency technology that is particularly well suited to remote or hard-to-reach application environments where conventional connectivity standards are either too expensive, unreliable or unavailable to implement.