With the ink scarcely dried on the agreement to form the LoRa Alliance for promoting a new long range wireless M2M communications standard, one of its founding members, Microchip Technology, is ready with samples of a ready-to-deploy, precertified sensor node module. Volume quantities will be available in May. LoRa is a low-data-rate wireless networking standard developed initially by Semtech Corp. to make possible Internet of Things and machine-to-machine wireless communication with a range of more than 10 miles , a battery life of greater than 10 years, and the ability to connect millions of wireless sensor nodes to gateways.