Connecting Smart Meters: A Guide to Long Battery Life, Wide Coverage & Secure Deployments with Cellular LPWA

Utilities face mounting pressure from aging infrastructure, rising costs, and evolving regulations—while customers demand accurate billing and real-time data access. Smart metering offers a powerful solution, but success depends on making the right connectivity choices from day one.

Semtech and Sony's Altair have partnered to deliver this comprehensive guide that explores the six critical connectivity factors that determine smart meter deployment success.

Read our white paper to learn how to: 

• Select a connectivity technology that aligns with power, performance and deployment goals.
• Extend coverage to rural and hard-to-reach areas using LPWA and satellite fallback.
• Understand how evolving regulations impact security and vendor selection.
• Balance data rates and latency for applications that need just enough bandwidth.
• Enable long-term success by choosing future-ready technologies.
• Partner with trusted suppliers to streamline integration and support lifecycle performance.

Discover how to avoid costly mistakes that impact ROI through case studies featuring water metering in harsh U.S. environments and multi-country gas metering across Europe—deployments powered by Semtech's HL7900 module based on Sony's Altair ALT1350 chipset.