Table 3.

A comparison of different short-range communication standards.

		Spectrum	Channel Width	Tx Rate Uplink	Tx Rate Downlink	Packet Size	Max Range (km)	Tx Power	Standard (If Any)
Sigfox		868–902 MHz	100 Hz	≤100 bps	256 bpday	≤12 bytes	10–50	10 μW–100 mW	Available
LoRaWAN	EU	863–870 MHz & 433 MHz	125–250 kHz	250–50 bps	250 bps–50 kbps	≤222 bytes	2–15	14 dBm	Available
	US	902–928 MHz	125–500 kHz	980 bps–21.9 kbps	980 bps–21.9 kbps	≤222 bytes		20 dBm	Available
Weightless	W	470–790 MHz TV white spaces	6–8 MHz	250 bps–50 kbps	2.5 kbps–16 Mbps	≥10 bytes	5	17 dBm	Available
	N	Sub GHz (ISM)	200 Hz	250 bps	None	≤20 bytes	3	17 dBm	Available
	P	Sub GHz (ISM)	12.5 kHz	200 bps–100 kbps	200 bytes–100 kbps	≥10 bytes	2	17 dBm	Available
Ingenu		2450 MHz	1 MHz	624 kbps	156 kbps	6 bytes–10 k bytes	100	20 dBm	Available