IBM Corp. and Semtech Corp. have partnered with the open standards LoRa Alliance at the Mobile World Congress , along with many other companies wishing to cash-in on the booming machine-to-machine market segment of the Internet of Things . So far, the IBM/Semtech parnership is offering the only end-to-end solution by marrying every possible application of M2M and other IoT applications with its Long Range Signaling and Control that allows users existing telecom resources to feed the information streaming in from billions of sensors up to the cloud where it becomes actionable intelligence.