SWM Citywide LoRaWAN IoT Network

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Munich's municipal utility SWM operates a citywide LoRaWAN radio network — about 60 gateways as of 2022, opened to outside businesses — that automates roughly 50 groundwater-level stations and reports live data from electrical substations. A 2022 pilot tested waste- and textile-container fill sensors on just 20 and 80 units; neither has been confirmed to scale further.

Live 📅 since 2018

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence📰 Media

Run byStadtwerke München (SWM)

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📊 Impact

Roughly 50 groundwater-level stations report automatically over the network with monthly system-generated summaries, and substations continuously transmit temperature, humidity, current, and voltage data with automatic control-center alarms. No independently audited evaluation of these deployments has been published.

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Sources

↗ SWM press release: LoRaWAN network reaches 60 gateways, AWM container-tracking pilotOperator press release, Sept 2022 — gateway count, AWM pilot details, listed applications

↗ muenchen.digital: LoRaWAN — Internet der DingeCity of Munich digital-transformation portal, 2022 — groundwater station count, substation monitoring, textile-container pilot framing

↗ 50komma2.de: SWM test sensors for container trackingIndependent regional trade press, corroborates AWM pilot details

↗ ZFK: Munich gets a LoRa networkTrade press, June 2018 — network launch

↗ Mittelstandswiki: Munich gets a citywide LoRa networkTrade press, June 2018 — corroborates launch year, ~10 gateways at start

↗ SWM: LoRaWAN for business customersCurrent live commercial page (checked 2026-08-09) — confirms network still marketed/operating; no detailed figures scraped

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Compare this project

🇨🇭 ewz.LoRaWAN — Zurich's Municipal IoT Network · Zürich Two municipal utilities running citywide LoRaWAN networks since 2018: Munich's SWM and Zurich's ewz. 🇦🇹 Wiener Netze / Wien Energie LoRaWAN Sensor Network · Vienna Related through LoRaWAN. 🇩🇪 Munich's Load-Dependent Traffic Signal Selection (LAPW) · Munich Another verified project from Munich.

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📟 A Reading Is Not a Decision 📡 Sensors & IoT guide 🏙️ Munich city profile 📡 Data & IoT projects 📖 District heating 📖 LoRaWAN 📖 Non-revenue water (NRW)

📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “SWM Citywide LoRaWAN IoT Network” — Munich, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/munich-swm-lorawan/ (last verified 2026-08-09). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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