LoRaWAN

LoRaWAN is an RF standard for IoT devices to connect to the internet.

Gateway

We decided in the Plenum to buy a LoRaWAN gateway for the space. However, we don't really know kind of gateway to get. Let's figure out what kinds exist today.

Prebuilt

• The Things Gateway [1] - not available yet?
• Kerlink IoT station [2] - can you buy that?
  • Some details:
    • https://www.disk91.com/2016/technology/internet-of-things-technology/lorawan-experimentation-with-kerlink-gateway/
    • https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/wiki/Hardware/Gateways/Kerlink
• Microchip LoRa Evaluation kit [3]
  • Includes a gateway and two nodes
• RisingHF Gateway RHF2S008 [4] - around 700€ ex. taxes [xyz]
  • Product brief Gateway RHF2S008 [xyz]
  • Product brief Modem [xyz]
  • Product brief Temp/Hum Sensor Node [xyz]
• AirFy
  • [5]
  • Supposed to be available sometime in Q4 2016

DIY

• ic880a-gateway
  • [6], [7] (the same document?)
• http://www.instructables.com/id/LoRaWAN-Gateway/
• Single Channel Gateway (not LoRaWAN spec conform, but maybe sufficent for testing?)
  • http://www.instructables.com/id/Use-Lora-Shield-and-RPi-to-Build-a-LoRaWAN-Gateway/
  • https://github.com/tftelkamp/single_chan_pkt_fwd

SDR

Just some thoughts. The difficult parts to get seem to be the RF modules for a LoRaWAN gateway. How about building one with a SDR? We have a few badges from the last CCCamp at the space, which work like an HackRF...

Some links I found:

• Post on the TTN forums
• https://revspace.nl/DecodingLora
• https://myriadrf.org/blog/lora-modem-limesdr/
• https://github.com/BastilleResearch/gr-lora

Other Information

• https://medium.com/@ashujoshi/4-ingredients-needed-to-get-started-with-lorawan-1ff519274122