Bluetooth LE is aiming at something slightly different. When people say several kilometres with LoRa, they do mean in actual real-world applications. Two LoRa

Bluetooth LE is aiming at something slightly different. When people say several kilometres with LoRa, they do mean in actual real-world applications. Two LoRa transceivers with dinky antennas indoors will do > 1 km in a suburban environment. With a well-sited outdoor antenna for one of the transceivers that will increase to 5+ km. Two well-sited outdoor antennas can do 20+ km if they have line-of-sight. There's nothing else quite like it at the moment. Cellular networks are close, but higher bandwidth, power, and of course, licensed spectrum. One could cover an entire large city with a LoRa network with a dozen well-placed nodes. Its most common application to date is along those lines, with utility meters and such.