Typical LoRaWAN smart-city use cases include: smart water meters, parking-bay occupancy sensors, fill-level sensors for waste bins, public-lighting telemonitoring, air-quality stations, EV charger monitoring (status and energy readings — not the OCPP charge-control protocol) and flood alerts — a typical LoRaWAN sensor costs between EUR 30 and EUR 150.
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Representative price ranges for smart-city LoRaWAN devices: water meters (Veolia, Suez) at EUR 30-50 per unit; parking sensors (Smart Parking, Vinci Park) at EUR 80-150 per bay; waste-bin level sensors at EUR 50-100 per bin; public lighting often combined with D4i for monitoring and dimming; atmospheric-pollution stations at EUR 200-500 per station. Cities such as Paris, Lyon, Nantes and Bordeaux have significant LoRaWAN deployments across several of these verticals.
When proposing a smart-city pilot, budget at least as much for backhaul, integration and the GIS/asset-management layer as for the sensors themselves — under-sized integration is the leading cause of stalled smart-city pilots.
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