About Sierra Wireless

Founded in 2003 in Vancouver, Canada. 185 patents granted. 18 million devices deployed across 64 countries. 210 R&D engineers across three global facilities.

“We engineer the connectivity layer that industrial systems depend on. Every module we ship has been validated through rigorous environmental testing, certified across global carrier networks, and designed for a minimum 10-year operational lifecycle. Precision and reliability are not aspirations — they are engineering requirements.”

Engineering Milestones

Key inflection points in our development of industrial IoT connectivity technology since 2003.

2003

Founded in Vancouver, Canada

Established with a founding team of 12 RF and embedded systems engineers from the Canadian telecommunications sector, focused on industrial-grade wireless modules.

2007

First HSPA Module for Industrial Applications

Shipped the HL6528 module series — the first industrial-temperature-rated HSPA module with integrated GPS — certified on 23 carrier networks across North America and Europe.

2013

AirVantage Cloud Platform Launch

Released the AirVantage device management platform with OTA firmware update capability, initially supporting 50,000 concurrent devices per tenant instance.

2017

LTE Cat-M1 / NB-IoT Module Family

Launched the RC-series LPWAN modules — first to achieve simultaneous Cat-M1 and NB-IoT certification on AT&T, Verizon, and Deutsche Telekom networks.

2021

Edge ML Inference Engine

Integrated on-device machine learning inference with TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers, enabling anomaly detection and predictive maintenance at the network edge without cloud round-trips.

2024

5G NR RedCap Module Certification

First 3GPP Release 17 RedCap-compliant industrial module, bridging the bandwidth gap between LTE Cat-M1 (1 Mbps) and full 5G NR (multi-Gbps) for mid-tier IoT applications.

Engineering & Testing Facilities

Three global facilities dedicated to module design, RF characterization, environmental testing, and carrier certification.

R&D Laboratory Environmental Testing Chambers RF Anechoic Chamber

Sierra Wireless by the Numbers

850+

Engineers Worldwide

Spanning RF design, embedded firmware, protocol stack, and cloud platform development.

185

Granted Patents

Covering wireless protocol optimization, edge inference, antenna design, and device management.

18M+

Devices Deployed

Operating across 64 countries in smart city, utility, fleet, and industrial automation applications.

42

Certifications Held

Including FCC, CE RED, TELEC, ISO 9001, RoHS, and MIL-STD-810G across our product lines.

Research & Publications

Selected contributions from our engineering teams to industry standards bodies and technical conferences.

3GPP

Active contributions to 3GPP RAN Working Groups

Participation in Release 17/18 NR-RedCap and eDRX standardization.

IEEE

IEEE IoT Journal publications

Peer-reviewed papers on edge inference optimization and LPWAN protocol comparison.

LoRa

LoRa Alliance Technical Committee

Contributing member to LoRaWAN specification development and interoperability testing.

MWC

Mobile World Congress presenter

Annual keynote presentations on industrial IoT connectivity trends and deployment case studies.

Partner with Our Engineering Team

From concept validation to mass deployment — our application engineers provide hands-on technical support at every stage.

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