The LoRa Alliance — the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN standard for the internet-of-things (IoT), low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) — recently announced that LoRaWAN was officially approved as a standard by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs). The standard is titled, Recommendation ITU-T…