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Wiener Netze / Wien Energie LoRaWAN Sensor Network

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Since 2019 Wiener Netze and Wien Energie have expanded a LoRaWAN sensor network, targeting 450 gateway locations citywide by 2029 (Actility's ThingPark platform from 2023; network-server tender won by The Things Industries in 2025). Vienna's waste authority MA 48 already GPS-tracks containers over it in real time; other confirmed uses are air-quality, water and energy monitoring.

Live 📅 since 2019
Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Official
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byWiener Netze & Wien Energie
Scale🏙️ City-wide

📊 Impact

MA 48 GPS-tracks waste containers city-wide over the network in real time via the Wien Digital IoT-Base platform; network coverage itself is still expanding toward a targeted 450 gateway locations by 2029.

📡 Data & IoTLoRaWANSensors & IoTWaste & recyclingAir qualityWaterConnectivity & 5G

Sources

↗ Wiener Netze (operator)Official page: network built since 2019, target 450 gateways by 2029, current basic coverage, confirmed use cases (air quality, water, energy).
↗ Wien Energie (operator)Official page: LoRaWAN product/network details, confirmed application areas (smart metering, irrigation, environmental monitoring, CO2, smart buildings).
↗ Digitales Wien / City of Vienna (authority)Published 21 April 2026City government page (dated 21 Apr 2026) on MA 48's GPS waste-container tracking over the Wien Energie LoRaWAN network.
↗ Actility (vendor, partnership announcement)Published 29 June 2023June 2023 partnership/platform announcement; net-zero-by-2040 framing quote from Wien Energie.
↗ The Things Industries (vendor, follow-on tender)Published 23 September 2025Sept. 2025: tender win for the LoRaWAN network-server component, showing the platform evolved after the 2023 Actility announcement.

📅 How old is the evidence?

Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2019. 3 of 5 sources carry a publication date, from 29 June 2023 to 21 April 2026.

When the sources were published

  1. Actility · vendorActility (vendor, partnership announcement)
  2. The Things Industries · vendorThe Things Industries (vendor, follow-on tender)
  3. Stadt Wien · city governmentDigitales Wien / City of Vienna (authority)

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Evidence Passport · public beta 9 addressable claims, 5 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

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Claim 1 clm-0343adc3c530875c quantitative
Since 2019 Wiener Netze and Wien Energie have expanded a LoRaWAN sensor network
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What the mapping says
Wiener Netze states the build-out year and the division of roles on its own network page: "Wir bauen die LoRaWAN®-Netzinfrastruktur in Wien und Umgebung seit 2019 konsequent aus" (we have been steadily expanding the LoRaWAN network infrastructure in Vienna and its surroundings since 2019), and "Unsere Hauptpartner*innen sind Wien Energie und die Stadt Wien. Wien Energie betreibt das für den Betrieb und die Weiterverarbeitung der Sensordaten erforderliche IT-System (Networkserver)" (Wien Energie runs the IT system, the network server, needed to operate the network and process the sensor data). Actility's release describes the same split: "Wiener Netze, a sister company of Wien Energie, is entrusted with building the outdoor network in Vienna, while Wien Energie focuses on indoor solutions."
Caveat
The 2019 start date is the network operator's own account of when it began building the infrastructure. The two companies are sister utilities of the municipal Wiener Stadtwerke group, so this is the builder describing its own timeline; no outside source dates the start independently. Actility's June 2023 release describes the network as still "undergoing a testing process" at that point, with scalable use cases expected from early 2024 — so the years between 2019 and 2023 covered infrastructure build-out rather than services in use.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Wiener Netze (operator)
  2. Actility (vendor, partnership announcement)
Claim 2 clm-237a6ca598361951 quantitative
targeting 450 gateway locations citywide by 2029
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What the mapping says
The operator's page names both the figure and the year: "Bis 2029 wird die Netzinfrastruktur flächendeckend mit 450 Gateway-Standorten angeboten" (by 2029 the network infrastructure will be offered with area-wide coverage from 450 gateway locations). The same page frames the network as built "im gesamten Wiener Stadtgebiet" (across the whole Vienna city area).
Caveat
This is a plan, not a count. The operator gives no figure for how many gateway locations are in service today, and "450" refers to gateway locations rather than individual gateways. Area-wide coverage is what the operator promises for 2029; for now the same page claims only "eine sehr gute Basisabdeckung für erste Anwendungen" — good basic coverage for first applications.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Wiener Netze (operator)
Claim 3 clm-55eed413cdf8bf16 quantitative
Actility's ThingPark platform from 2023
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What the mapping says
Actility's release is dated "Press Release – Vienna, Austria & Paris, France – June 29th, 2023" and states that "Actility, renowned for its advanced IoT solutions, provides its flagship ThingPark Wireless platform for the project."
Caveat
This is the supplier's own announcement of the contract, so it describes what the platform was chosen to do rather than what it went on to deliver. The release itself says the network was "currently undergoing a testing process" in June 2023, with scalable use cases expected from early 2024.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Actility (vendor, partnership announcement)
Claim 4 clm-98d4431ef90aa160 quantitative
network-server tender won by The Things Industries in 2025
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What the mapping says
The Things Industries announced on 23 September 2025: "Amsterdam, 23 September 2025 – The Things Industries (TTI), a global leader in LoRaWAN® enterprise solutions, wins tender from Wien Energie, Austria's largest regional energy provider, to supply its LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS) as a highly available and scalable on-premises enterprise solution."
Caveat
This is the winning supplier's own announcement. It reports the award of the contract, not a completed migration, and neither Wien Energie nor Wiener Netze confirms the change on its own pages.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. The Things Industries (vendor, follow-on tender)
Claim 5 clm-84ba198c8ff0e89f quantitative
Vienna's waste authority MA 48 already GPS-tracks containers over it in real time
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What the mapping says
The city's own page reports it directly: "Durch den Einsatz von Sensoren mit GPS-Ortung werden Mulden jetzt automatisch und in Echtzeit über das Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN)-Netzwerk der Wien Energie lokalisiert" (using sensors with GPS positioning, skips are now located automatically and in real time over Wien Energie's LoRaWAN network). Wien Energie describes the same deployment under the heading "Digitale Innovation bei der MA 48: Mulden-Tracking in Echtzeit" and states "Jede Mulde ist nun über die Wien Digital Echtzeitdatenplattform der Stadt Wien auffindbar." This ties the waste application to this network rather than to a separate one.
Caveat
The tracked objects are Mulden — the several thousand skips and roll-off containers MA 48 moves around the city each year — not the fixed street bins a reader may picture. Neither source says how many are fitted with sensors or when the roll-out began.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Digitales Wien / City of Vienna (authority)
  2. Wien Energie (operator)
Claim 6 clm-5464e23d4cedc818 descriptive
other confirmed uses are air-quality, water and energy monitoring
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What the mapping says
Wiener Netze names exactly these three fields: "Daten aus Sensoren, zum Beispiel zur Luftqualität und zum Wasser- oder Energieverbrauch, werden über das Netzwerk (Gateways) an eine zentrale Stelle gesendet" (sensor data, for example on air quality and on water or energy consumption, is sent over the network to a central point), and it names water meters as a joint application with city departments: "spezifischen Anwendungen (zum Beispiel Wasserzähler)". Wien Energie lists the application areas of its LoRaWAN product as "Smart Metering, Intelligente Bewässerungssysteme, Umweltmonitoring, Predictive Maintenance, Smart Buildings".
Caveat
Both operators describe these as the kinds of application the network is built for, not as documented deployments. Neither page reports how many sensors are in service, which districts they cover, or what the readings have shown — so "confirmed" here means the operator names the use, not that a result has been published.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Wiener Netze (operator)
  2. Wien Energie (operator)
Claim 7 clm-623412dd3c4e3e7f quantitative
MA 48 GPS-tracks waste containers city-wide over the network in real time
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impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The City of Vienna reports the deployment across the city area: "Jährlich bewegt die Abteilung Abfallwirtschaft, Straßenreinigung und Fuhrpark (MA 48) in Wien zahlreiche Mulden im Stadtgebiet" (each year MA 48 moves numerous skips around the city area), and "werden Mulden jetzt automatisch und in Echtzeit über das Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN)-Netzwerk der Wien Energie lokalisiert".
Caveat
"City-wide" describes where the skips travel, not a measured extent of the tracking service. The city states that MA 48 moves them throughout the city area; it does not say that the whole fleet carries a sensor, and the network itself is described by its operator as offering basic coverage rather than full area coverage until 2029.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Digitales Wien / City of Vienna (authority)
Claim 8 clm-d2a0333cfff92565 descriptive
via the Wien Digital IoT-Base platform
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The city names the platform by name: "Die Standortdaten fließen direkt in die Echtzeitdaten-Plattform von Wien Digital, die IoT-Base" (the location data flows straight into Wien Digital's real-time data platform, the IoT-Base).
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Digitales Wien / City of Vienna (authority)
Claim 9 clm-25839853df74f8e3 quantitative
network coverage itself is still expanding toward a targeted 450 gateway locations by 2029
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impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The operator says both halves in the same paragraph: "Die bestehenden Gateway-Standorte bieten bereits jetzt eine sehr gute Basisabdeckung für erste Anwendungen" (the existing gateway locations already provide very good basic coverage for first applications) and "Bis 2029 wird die Netzinfrastruktur flächendeckend mit 450 Gateway-Standorten angeboten." It adds: "Das Funknetz deckt bereits jetzt viele Gebiete ab und wird laufend erweitert" (the radio network already covers many areas and is being continuously extended).
Caveat
The operator publishes no figure for gateways in service today, so the distance still to go cannot be measured from these sources — only that full area coverage is promised for 2029 and that today's coverage is described as a basic level.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Wiener Netze (operator)
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Wiener Netze & Wien Energie
Actor types
utility
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utility
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5 source dossiers

Wiener Netze (operator) wienernetze.at · 4 linked claims

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Name not classified · wienernetze.at
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Record last verified
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Official page: network built since 2019, target 450 gateways by 2029, current basic coverage, confirmed use cases (air quality, water, energy).

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Wien Energie (operator) wienenergie.at · 2 linked claims

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Official page: LoRaWAN product/network details, confirmed application areas (smart metering, irrigation, environmental monitoring, CO2, smart buildings).

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Digitales Wien / City of Vienna (authority) digitales.wien.gv.at · 3 linked claims

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2026-04-21
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City government page (dated 21 Apr 2026) on MA 48's GPS waste-container tracking over the Wien Energie LoRaWAN network.

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Actility (vendor, partnership announcement) actility.com · 2 linked claims

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Name not classified · actility.com
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web-page · language not classified
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2023-06-29
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Record last verified
2026-07-22
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June 2023 partnership/platform announcement; net-zero-by-2040 framing quote from Wien Energie.

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The Things Industries (vendor, follow-on tender) thethingsindustries.com · 1 linked claim

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Name not classified · thethingsindustries.com
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web-page · language not classified
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2025-09-23
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2026-07-22
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Sept. 2025: tender win for the LoRaWAN network-server component, showing the platform evolved after the 2023 Actility announcement.

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  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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Compare this project

🇨🇿 Golemio Urban Waste Sensor Mesh · Prague Both run citywide LoRaWAN sensor backbones from 2019; Prague tracks bin fill levels, Vienna GPS-tracks waste containers. 🇦🇹 Wiener Netze Smart Meter Rollout · Vienna Two distinct Wiener Netze networks: this LoRaWAN sensor backbone (2019-) runs alongside a separate PLC-based smart-meter rollout. 🇰🇷 Busan Remote Water Metering · Busan Busan runs a city-owned LoRa network too, for water meters, and had to defend the choice against a councillor in 2023.

The radio is the cheapest rung. Who owns it, and what did it end up carrying?

A LoRaWAN network is coverage in a year for the price of a few dozen gateways, which is why so many cities have one. The interesting questions come afterwards: whose asset it is, and what it actually carries once the pilots are over.

ProjectSinceStatusOutcomeEvidenceRun byCostOwner, and the load it carries
Citywide LoRaWAN Network & DOdata HubDortmund, 🇩🇪 2019 Live Ongoing Official Utility or public operator, City government not public The utility built it and then founded a subsidiary steered jointly with the city, so urban data stays in municipal hands. The workload is unglamorous: water meters in underground shafts.
SWM Citywide LoRaWAN IoT NetworkMunich, 🇩🇪 2018 Live Ongoing Media Utility or public operator not public The municipal utility owns it and opened it to outside businesses. Groundwater stations and substations report over it; the waste-container pilots have not been confirmed to scale.
Wiener Netze / Wien Energie LoRaWAN Sensor NetworkVienna, 🇦🇹 2019 Live Ongoing Official Utility or public operator not public The grid company and the energy utility own it, not the city. The one confirmed city use at scale is the waste authority tracking its containers.
Busan Remote Water MeteringBusan, 🇰🇷 2018 Live Ongoing Official Utility or public operator not public The city runs its own LoRa network — and a councillor challenged the choice years after peer cities had moved on. A cheap standard picked at pilot stage can outlive its credibility.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Wiener Netze / Wien Energie LoRaWAN Sensor Network” — Vienna, Austria. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/vienna-lorawan-network/ (last verified 2026-07-22). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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