LoRaWAN/Gateway

A collection of information on existing gateways solutions out there, as well as about our setup.

Commercial Gateways

Kerlink

WirNet Station

• Specs on Kerlink Website
• Price unknown
• 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

• Website
• Kit includes a gateway and two nodes

RisingHF Gateway

RHF2S008 [1] - around 700€ ex. taxes Media:Lora_RisingHF_Prices.pdf

• Product brief Gateway RHF2S008 [xyz]
• Product brief Modem [xyz]
• Product brief Temp/Hum Sensor Node RHF1S001 Media:RHF1S001_Product_Brief.pdf

MatchX

• Website
• Thread in TTN forums
• LoRaWAN, GPS + WiFi
• Older post that seems related [2]

Lorrier

Lorrier LR2

• Website
• Shop

DIY Gateways

iMST IC880a based

• [3], [4] (the same document?)
• IC880A using Adapter Shield
  • Workshop Description by TTN Hennef
  • Kit
  • Nice case
  • Shield on GitHub

Some Gateway RPi shield?

• http://www.instructables.com/id/LoRaWAN-Gateway/

Single Channel Gateways

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
• Gateway using LoPy board
• ESP8266 Based:
  • Stuff on GitHub: [5] [6]
  • WeMos D1 mini shield
  • Thread in Forums

Gateways based around 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

Antennas

• http://www.sirioantenne.it/en/products/cellular/gp-900-c-gp-901-c-gp-868-c (apparently recommended by Lorrier [7])
• Aurel GP868 Groundplane
• Homemade Antenna from eBay. More References: [8] [9]
• 868Mhz Antena by DELINK

Our Gateways

MuMaLab Gateway

DIY gateway with RPi and IC880a SPI board, acc. to [10]

• BOM

Description	Seller	Price
RPi	-	-
IC880a LoRa concentrator Board	IMST	218.83€
RPi Adapter Board	Tindie GNZ	9.75€
Aurel GP868 Groundplane Antenna	funkmodul.com	37.37€
U.FL -> BNC Adapter cable	4GLte.eu	8.70€
	total	274.65€

• Gateway ID: munich-kreativquartier-001
• Install Log
• Check status at http://noc.thethingsnetwork.org:8085/api/v2/gateways/munich-kreativquartier-001

Monitoring

• Checking the undocumented NOC API (see above)
• Node-Red + Telegram Bot: https://flows.nodered.org/flow/c983777897c5b87f21a158fe5efc5e39 (via Twitter)