2025: Scaling LoRaWAN® Isn’t About Deployment. It’s About Operations.

As we look back on 2025, I’d like to share one clear takeaway from the field:

LoRaWAN^® scalability isn’t defined by how fast you can deploy a network. It’s defined by how efficiently you can operate and maintain it over the long term.

In the early days of IoT, most conversations focused on coverage, penetration, and device power consumption. Those topics remain important. But as LoRaWAN networks scale from dozens of gateways to thousands of endpoints across multiple sites and business units, a new reality becomes unavoidable:

The real cost of IoT is not in installation. It’s in operations.

Troubleshooting, monitoring, remote management, standardization, and the ability to scale without adding headcount are what determine whether a project can move from PoC to long-term, profitable deployment.

This insight shaped our work in 2025. Not only in what we built, but also in how we measured progress.

2025: Building the Toolchain for Scale

At RAKwireless, we continue to follow our “Come to the Field” mindset, listening closely to what customers face after deployment, when the network becomes part of real operations.

This year, our focus was on closing the operational gap: helping customers reduce long-term maintenance cost, improve reliability, and scale with confidence.

That focus led to meaningful progress across our platforms, software, and ecosystem.

WisDM in 2025: Management That Fits Real Operations

WisDM continues to evolve into a management platform designed for long-term IoT operations, not just device onboarding.

In 2025, development focused on making WisDM more stable, usable, and operationally efficient for customers managing live LoRaWAN networks at scale.

A key milestone was the release of API Key support in November 2025, enabling deeper integration and automation for advanced operational workflows.

As networks scale, automation and integration are no longer “nice to have.” They become a requirement. WisDM API Key support is an important milestone in that direction.

WisGateOS 2: Continuous Releases, Stronger Stability

A scalable LoRaWAN deployment requires stable, dependable gateway operations in real environments.

In 2025, WisGateOS 2 continued its steady release cadence:

• v2.2.11 — February 14
• v2.2.13 — May 18
• v2.2.14 — July 28
• v2.2.15 — October 22

Our focus has been clear: improving stability, operational consistency, and real-world usability. This way, gateways remain reliable, manageable, and resilient as deployments grow.

Extensions: Turning Field Experience into Operational Tools

In 2025, we also expanded our WisGateOS 2 Extensions ecosystem because scalability depends on giving users operational tools, not just core functionality.

These tools address the realities of large-scale networks: diagnosing connectivity, improving stability, supporting remote access, and enabling smarter field operations.

When operations teams can solve problems faster and more independently, IoT becomes easier to scale and much easier to trust.

“IoT Made Easy” Is About Reducing Friction

Our vision of “IoT Made Easy” is not only about making devices easy to connect.

It is about making the entire lifecycle easier:

• easier to deploy
• easier to maintain
• easier to troubleshoot
• easier to standardize
• easier to scale

That is why, beyond our platforms, we also invested heavily in improving user-facing resources and product clarity.

In 2025, we:

• released 40 new products
• updated 102 product pages
• published 22 YouTube videos and 10 YouTube Shorts

Better product information and clearer learning resources may seem simple. But in the field, they directly reduce operational friction and shorten the time from purchase to deployment success.

AI and the Next Generation of Operations

AI is changing the world. And it is also changing how humans interact with systems.

In 2025, we continued exploring how AI can reduce workload, improve decision-making, and simplify operations for our users and our teams. We are preparing to introduce our first AI-powered tool, RAKu, and we see AI not as a “feature,” but as an operational capability.

However, we also learned an important lesson:

AI works only when the foundation is structured.

That’s why over the past two years we focused on “AI-ready” groundwork:

• modular documentation structures
• rebuilt WisDM and WisGate OS documentation
• standardized product and customer databases for future analysis and automation

As RAKu evolves, these foundational improvements will allow AI to deliver real value: faster answers, better support, and more scalable operations.

WisNode in 2025: Industrial Devices Built for Operational Scale

In parallel, WisNode development in 2025 focused on strengthening industrial readiness and operational scalability.

Across Bridge Interface, WisToolBox, and IO.Box, the emphasis was on:

• expanding industrial I/O support
• improving configuration efficiency
• enabling repeatable, large-scale deployments aligned with real field operations

A Company Milestone: 11 Years of Real-World Installations

2025 also marked RAKwireless’s 11th anniversary.

Over the years, we have seen our solutions deployed across real environments worldwide: from campuses and rural areas to solar power sites, from Asia and Oceania to Africa and Central Asia.

What makes us proud is not just the number of deployments but the fact that LoRaWAN is becoming deeply embedded in how industries operate and how cities manage sustainability, compliance, and efficiency.

This is what gives us long-term confidence: the transformation is real, and the need is growing.

Looking Ahead to 2026: From Management to Scalable Operations

In 2026, our focus will remain consistent: helping customers scale with lower maintenance cost and stronger operational confidence.

Here are a few highlights we’re excited about:

1) WisDM Metrics - Visibility at Scale

We plan to expand WisDM’s operational observability, helping users monitor network health, system performance, and operational metrics more effectively.

2) Remote Install & Manage - Standardizing Deployments

We are working toward enabling more scalable remote installation and management workflows, reducing the complexity of managing distributed fleets and multi-site deployments.

3) BACnet Gateway - Expanding beyond LoRaWAN into Building Automation

We’re also excited about our upcoming BACnet Gateway, which will help us expand into smart building and building automation markets. This is an area where operational simplicity and long-term reliability matter even more.

And beyond that, we continue to explore strategic directions including security, eSIM integration, industrial applications, and sustainable energy scenarios such as solar and off-grid connectivity.

Thank You

To our customers and partners, thank you for your trust, your feedback, and your willingness to build with us.

IoT is not only about technology. It is about operations, trust, and long-term value creation.

In 2025, we learned that scalability is ultimately determined by maintenance cost and operational clarity. And we’re committed to building the toolchain (platforms, extensions, documentation, and AI-ready foundations) that help you scale with confidence.

We look forward to building the next chapter of scalable IoT with you in 2026.

Warm regards,

Ken Yu
CEO, RAKwireless

TL;DR:

• LoRaWAN scalability = operations. Long-term monitoring, troubleshooting, and standardization matter more than initial deployment speed.
• 2025 focus: WisDM improvements (including API Keys, Nov 2025), steady WisGateOS 2 releases, and more operational Extensions.
• Looking ahead to 2026: More metrics/observability, better remote install & manage, and expansion into BACnet. Plus AI groundwork for RAKu.