Method for activating a connected object

1. A secured method for activating a connected object when it is inserted in a low power wide area network (“LPWAN”) network, the method comprises, when it is used by the connected object:

detecting, from a standby mode in which only a module of the connected object is activated for detecting a first signal, the first signal transmitted by an external device;

when the first signal has predefined characteristics, making the connected object to pass from the standby mode to an active mode;

receiving, in the active mode, a second signal comprising a signature from the external device;

checking that the signature is in accordance with a predefined signature, and,

when the signature is in accordance with the predefined signature, obtaining configuration parameters, configuring the connected object in accordance with the configuration parameters obtained and transmitting a message requesting connection to said LPWAN network;

at least some of the configuration parameters are received in a message transmitted by a server of said LPWAN network following the transmission of the message requesting connection to said LPWAN network by the connected object; and

following the transmission of the message requesting connection to said LPWAN network by the connected object and prior to the reception of the message comprising said parameters, the connected object receives a message enabling connection to the LPWAN network from the server comprising information indicating that the server has configuration parameters to transmit to the connected object and transmits a message acknowledging receipt for said enabling message to cause a sending by the server of the message comprising said parameters.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the connected object is identified by a first connected-object identifier and the second signal comprises information representing a certificate of the external device, a first hash calculated from said certificate, and information representing a second connected-object identifier, the signature being in accordance with the predefined signature when a second hash calculated by the connected object from said certificate is equal to a third hash calculated by the connected object from the first hash and when the information representing the second connected-object identifier corresponds to the first connected-object identifier.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein some of the configuration parameters are given by the external device in the second signal.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said LPWAN network is a LoRa network and each communication between the connected object and the server is done by means of a gateway in said LPWAN network.

5. A device of the connected object type comprising circuitry configured for implementing the method according to any of claim 1 .

6. A computer program embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program comprising instructions for the implementation, by a device, of the method according to claim 1 , when said program is executed by a processor of said device.

7. A non-transitory storage medium, storing a computer program comprising program code instructions which can be loaded in a programmable device to cause said programmable device to implement, the method according to claim 1 , when said program is executed by a processor of said device.