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Making LoRa cheaper, more accessible and hackable using your favourite single board computers – Raspberry Pi, Arduino and Micro:Bit!
LoRa is a revolutionary new method of sending small amounts of data over very long distances using long range radio and low power. It’s designed for the Internet of Things (IoT) so it’s perfect for communicating with sensors such as weather monitoring, air quality, smart homes etc.
There are two key parts to a LoRa network; a Gateway and a Node.
LoRa Gateway
This is the piece of hardware in a LoRaWAN Network which is setup to primarily receive packets from LoRa Nodes and bridge them to a LoRaWAN Network such as The Things Network. These are usually able to receive from hundreds of nodes at the same time and provide LoRaWAN coverage for both your devices and others within range of it. This is most similar to your Wi-Fi Router in a home network.
LoRa Node
This is the terminology for either a complete sensor or the transmitter add-on such as our IoT LoRa pHAT or Micro:bit LoRa Node. These transmit small packets of data and are designed to be picked up by a LoRa Gateway.
LoRaWAN is when you configure your devices to speak to a central network that acts as a bridge to the internet. Instead of communicating in a peer to peer method between two devices instead you can configure your device to connect to a LoRaWAN Network of which as long as the device is in coverage of a Gateway with the network selected the data can be picked up and forwarded to services such as Amazon AWS, Azure, IFTTT, Cayenne, Node Red and more.
We’re a big fan of the The Things Network – a LoRaWAN Provider that is increasing coverage constantly throughout the UK, Europe and Worldwide. In fact, they are even a Kickstarter Alumni themselves!
The benefit of using a public network is devices that you build in one area of the UK will work in any area of the UK or even the EU as long as you’re within Coverage (they would also work worldwide, but you would need to change from 868Mhz to 915 MHz frequency)! Not got coverage? You can setup your own gateway for you and others to use and increase the coverage at the same time.
Free & Open Network – Free to use once set up 15km Range
Very Low Power – Although very small amounts of data
Peer to Peer – Communicating from one Node to Another
Non Peer to Peer – Works via local Gateway
Completely Independent Devices / Nodes
Nodes are Low Power – some can lasts years!
Introducing… IoT LoRa boards from Pi Supply!
We want to bring LoRa technology to the masses and allow anyone to get started with the LoRa network in an easy and cost effective way by using the Raspberry Pi, micro:bit, Arduino, and other low cost single board computers.
Our IoT LoRa range allows you to do this by reducing the price of the hardware considerably and reducing setup time to minutes rather than hours.
Funding now on Kickstarter – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pisupply/iot-lora-boards-your-gateway-to-the-internet-of-th
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