Building Smarter Digital Infrastructure with LoRaWAN: From Connectivity to Actionable Insights
This panel explores how LoRaWAN is enabling the next generation of smart buildings by connecting sensors, networks, and building management systems into a unified digital infrastructure. Through expert perspectives and real-world examples, attendees will learn how connected building data can be transformed into actionable insights that improve operational efficiency, sustainability, occupant comfort, and building performance. The discussion will highlight the value of open standards, interoperability, and ecosystem collaboration in delivering scalable smart building solutions.
Session Speakers
Neil Carey is Vice President, EMEA & APAC at MultiTech , where he is responsible for driving business growth, strategic partnerships, and customer engagement across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. With extensive experience in IoT connectivity, channel development, and international business leadership, Neil works closely with customers, partners, and technology ecosystems to deliver innovative solutions that enable digital transformation across a range of industries.
A strong advocate for open standards and interoperable technologies, Neil is actively involved in helping organisations leverage LoRaWAN and IoT solutions to improve operational efficiency, sustainability, asset visibility, and building performance. He regularly collaborates with partners, system integrators, and end users to develop scalable strategies that connect data, devices, and applications to deliver measurable business outcomes.
Rob Whitcomb is Director of Ultra Protect UK, inBiot's air quality partner for the UK commercial market, and brings over four years of experience delivering indoor air quality monitoring across UK commercial estates. He works with facilities and estates teams to turn air quality requirements, from certification frameworks such as WELL, BREEAM, LEED and RESET to daily building operations, into practical, low disruption sensor deployments using inBiot's MICA devices. His work spans building surveys, sensor placement, connectivity planning and integration into the systems buildings already run on, giving occupiers continuous, actionable environmental data without disrupting how the building operates.
Ian Lloyd is an experienced technology and connectivity professional with more than 20 years’ experience across IoT, connectivity and digital transformation.
Having held senior roles with organisations including BT and Vodafone, Ian has worked with enterprise and public-sector customers to develop and deliver connected solutions that solve real-world business challenges.
He also founded connectivity business developing innovative IoT solutions and working with technologies designed to make buildings, infrastructure and physical assets smarter and more connected.
Ian has a particular interest in how technologies such as LoRaWAN, IoT sensors and intelligent connectivity can provide organisations with better visibility of their buildings, reduce operating costs, improve sustainability and enable smarter decision-making.
At the Smart Buildings Show, Ian will be speaking on “Building Smarter Digital Infrastructure with LoRaWAN”, exploring the practical role LoRaWAN can play in creating scalable, connected and genuinely smarter buildings.
Paul Fahy is a Technical Sales Specialist at Tridium with extensive experience in IoT, device management, connectivity, and technical pre-sales. He has worked across the technology and telecommunications sectors, supporting customers throughout EMEA with solution design, technical sales, bids, proof-of-concepts, and complex IoT deployments. Prior to Tridium, Paul held IoT pre-sales and technical sales roles at Nokia and Mformation Technologies.
Nick Sacke is the UK Industry Lead for NNNCo, bringing deep commercial and technical expertise across end-to-end IoT, LPWAN, and cellular connectivity solutions. He is highly experienced in wireless technologies (LoRaWAN, NB-IoT/CAT-M, 5G) and IoT solutions design, with a proven ability to architect scalable, secure, and future-ready deployments tailored to complex utility and critical national infrastructure environments.
Recognised for his global thought leadership in IoT, Nick has extensive experience spanning AMI smart metering and smart city solutions, helping organisations harness connected technologies to use asset intelligence to drive efficiency, resilience, and sustainability. He combines strategic insight with commercial and hands-on technical knowledge to deliver impactful outcomes and enable data-driven decision-making across client assets.
