Why has IoT failed to live up to the hype.

There is a huge potential for solutions that monitor and control things using LoRaWAN.  

Many LoRaWAN projects fail to proceed past PoC. If you want to address the problem it is helpful to understand the cause

To date adoption has been hampered by a few things: 

• emerging enabling technologies — which is now largely resolved and standards e.g. relays
• telco mindset in early adoptions — "field of dreams" build a network and they will come; and “all you need is off the shelf device” and that will deliver the value you need. 
• the inevitable failure of “inane agile” — when there are many elements and skills required in a complex solution. 
• one size fits all IoT platforms — undifferentiated IoT platforms that don't address the specific challenges of any particular technology.

New approaches and platform address the last two issues and provide a basic templated approach that can expand to a full scale implementation.