Following the establishment of NR+ as a 5G SRIT, Wirepas released a generally available stack tailored very much to the needs of large scale and utility driven electricity metering roll-outs. Faced with the two most complex challenges in IoT – Scale and Reliability – Smart Metering has been the leading use case in the segment of Industrial IoT. While many wired, wireless and sometimes weird technologies have been deployed – a globally available and affordable implementation was not developed. Wirepas, together with many partners is embracing RF Mesh as default topology for the 1900 MHz band – a perfect match to integrate many (expensive) lessons learned over the last decades in connectivity.