In the hotly contested market for Internet of Things networks, Ingenu has its sights set on nothing less than world domination for its technology.

“We will have the largest footprint in the world … and it will become a global standard,” CEO John Horn said in an interview last week. Ingenu-based networks will reach more than half the world’s population within three years, he predicted.

San Diego-based Ingenu is one of several companies and industry groups vying to connect things like industrial sensors, utility meters and shipping containers over power-efficient networks. They’re promoting various forms of LPWANs (low-power, wide-area networks) that can link thousands of devices spread out across an area the size of a city. What these networks lack in bandwidth they make up for in efficiency, letting IoT endpoints communicate for years without a battery change.

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