The LoRa Alliance is an open, nonprofit association that represents the LoRaWAN standard. LoRaWAN is growing quickly and expanding into a host of both new geographies and new applications. To see where it’s headed and why it’s been so successful, I spoke to the Alliance’s Chairwoman, Donna Moore, on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.
LISTEN HERE: https://embeddedcomputing.com/application/networking-5g/embedded-executive-donna-moore-chairwoman-lora-alliance
LoRaWAN® News
Why LoRaWAN is the Right Choice for Smart Cities
I find myself having recurrent conversations with city managers and innovators. We discuss the juxtaposition of a city wanting to become smarter—and provide better outcomes for its community—and the challenges of doing so with a limited budget and an unclear path on how to progress. Cities have massive data opportunities. So, to make their cities smart, leaders need to be able to gather data in a usable form to gain insights and make decisions.
Why Smart Cities?
What is driving cities to want to become “smart”? Often, it is the pressure of increasing urbanization and growing population density. Urbanization brings a range of challenges and opportunities. On the opportunity side for cities, increasing urbanization allows for scaled use of resources, job growth, and increased economic activity. IoT can recognize and alleviate urban growth challenges. A city becomes smarter when it gathers, organizes, and manages data in a way that creates insights and leads to better decisions.
Read more: https://www.iotforall.com/why-lorawan-is-the-right-choice-for-smart-cities
Cloud-based positioning meets LoRaWAN®
u-blox cloud-based positioning solutions bring distinct advantages to power constrained applications using LoRaWAN® technology.
On a quest for ultra-low-power IoT applications, many IoT project designers choose LoRaWAN network technology. However, because LoRaWAN provides low bandwidth, there is often a trade-off required. A vast portion of IoT devices need meter-level location accuracy to do their job, prompting the design quest to
expand to GNSS (global navigation satellite system) solutions. This article describes how the u-blox cloud-based positioning solution makes a perfect match for use with LoRaWAN, allowing for best-in-class synergy between GNSS technology and long-range wireless connectivity for power constrained IoT devices. The combination provides a real-world developer platform from our customer Move-X where cloud-based positioning meets LoRaWAN.
Read more: http://hz1.37b.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/LoRaWAN-M10-CloudLocate-article-1.pdf
Council receive £60,000 in funding to grow wireless infrastructure
CONWY County Borough Council has been awarded £60,000 to grow and enhance the area’s community digital wireless infrastructure.
The funding from Welsh Government will be used to extend the LoRaWAN network that the Council has been creating across the county and will also provide free Wi-Fi in Llandudno town centre.
Using various funding opportunities over recent years, the Council has established a digital and communications wireless infrastructure, which is free to use for schools, business, the public sector and the public.
Coyote Secure combines LoRa and Sigfox to find stolen vehicles
By partnering with Orange Business Services to add the LoRaWAN network to the Coyote Secure service, initially with the Sigfox network, Coyote is engaged in large-scale technology convergence.
With Coyote Secure, its tracer can find 91% of its customers’ stolen vehicles in less than 48 hours. In order to further improve the performance of its offer and reach almost 100%, the French company, known for its driver assistance service, has chosen to integrate the LoRaWAN network of the operator Orange into Coyote Secure, which has been in use since 2018 with the Sigfox network. “We are technology agnostic, our goal is to offer our customers the best and for this we chose the convergence of connectivity,” confirms Jérôme Arnac, Marketing Director at Coyote.
Read more: https://techinkers.com/coyote-secure-combines-lora-and-sigfox-to-find-stolen-vehicles/
Future of Massive IoT and the Role of LoRaWAN
With billions of IoT sensors sending small data volumes in massive numbers, the demand for cost-efficient and secure connectivity is critical. Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) is a wireless technology that best meets the needs of non-mission-critical applications for its extended coverage, low transmission rate, long battery life, and cost savings in operations.
LoRaWAN® is the LPWAN standard that grew the most in recent years and is expected to scale even faster in the post-pandemic scenario as network operators increase coverage in relevant countries and the ecosystem matures in different verticals. Through its groundbreaking, secure, and cost-efficient wireless connectivity, the LoRa Alliance® enables simplified management, ease of deployment, and scalability. Its flexibility sparks business opportunities and a fast return on investment.
Learn more: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/5567/549664
Today’s Needs and Tomorrow’s Demands: Uncovering Enterprise Priorities for IoT Adoption
In the past decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved at an unprecedented pace. Enterprises of all shapes, sizes, and industries benefit from IoT solutions that drive productivity, enhance operations, promote cost savings, and automate workflows with intelligent, data-backed capabilities.
To analyze and explore the technology preferences, requirements, and challenges respective to IoT deployments, Omdia surveyed 200+ decision makers across North America. While each industry has varying needs, goals, and desires, survey data showcases universal demands for three key components, among other compelling themes.
Addressing Metering Infrastructure with LoRaWAN
In the U.S., a water main breaks every two minutes, leaking enough water each day to fill 9,000 swimming pools, according to recent ASCE data. As critical infrastructure continues to age like it has in the water industry, utilities and municipalities must find practical solutions to rebuild and augment these systems with modern materials and technologies. In fact, the renewal and replacement of aging water and wastewater infrastructure has been the top challenge facing water utilities in the United States for the last seven years, according to the American Water Works Association (AWWA) State of the Water Industry Report. An example of innovation directly addressing today’s aging water infrastructure is the use of Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) such as LoRaWAN and low-cost sensors to support new advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).
Read more: https://www.iotforall.com/metering-infrastructure-and-lorawan
Donna Moore | Passionate about Technology as an Enabler
Spotlight on Leading Women in Telecoms | TelecomDrive.com
Having about two decades of experience, Donna Moore started her career as a nurse and then moved over to the business side of healthcare and then moved towards the technology industry. Today, she is highly regarded in the industry as a great catalyst and as an enabler for future-proof technology adoption. Her current work at LoRa Alliance is bringing to life new-age innovations with LoRaWAN use cases.
As part of Disruptive Telecoms July 2022 cover story on ‘Leading Women in Telecoms’ – Donna Moore, CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance speaks with Zia Askari from TelecomDrive.com about her professional and personal journey.
Read more: https://telecomdrive.com/donna-moore-passionate-about-technology-as-an-enabler/
The future of decentralized wireless – opportunities from 3G shutdowns and 5G alternatives
The story of how blockchain is revolutionizing IoT, by democratizing and expanding low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking and creating incremental opportunities for forward-looking enterprises, has been told already. We know the IoT market has failed so far to live up to the hype (50 billion connected devices by 2020, anyone?), and that new business gains and sustainability impacts have been hard fought and hard won.
And we know that new wireless network models like Helium’s – expanding a crowd-sourced, self-funding global LoRaWAN infrastructure, where data transactions are immutable in blockchain ledgers – might just make the difference. Helium’s self-styled ‘The People’s Network’, is the fastest and largest growing IoT network in the world; in just two years, it has expanded to over 800,000 hotspots in around 52,000 cities in 169 countries.
Sensors In Fire Detection
The last 10 years or so have produced some colossal and deadly fire events that have destroyed whole towns, burned a record amount of acreage, and polluted skies for weeks. And wildfires are not just happening in the Western United States but have burnt out of control in Europe, the Amazon, and Australia.
Early wildfire detection and forest management via controlled burns are two ways to prevent wildfires from getting out of control. Sensor systems, networks, artificial intelligence, simulation, and modeling all have a role to play. Governments and governmental agencies have acted as catalysts to spur on development of models, sensors, and networks. Commercial offerings continue to tackle problems of power, cost, automation, and network accessibility for remote coverage areas.
Read more: https://semiengineering.com/sensors-in-fire-detection/
DS Energy chooses Netmore as LoRaWAN® operator in Denmark
Danish service provider DS Energy, with over 10,000 active connected sensors, chooses Netmore as its LoRaWAN operator in Denmark. With a leading position in the growing Danish industrial segment and over six years of experience within LoRaWAN-based solutions, DS Energy is an established expert in energy management. All existing sensors and meters will be migrated to Netmore’s network during the current quarter.
The deal launches Netmore’s investment in the Danish market
Netmore and DS Energy will begin the cooperation immediately, initally by Netmore taking over the operation of the existing LoRaWAN that DS Energy uses for its solutions and services.
Netmore’s role as a LoRaWAN operator is to manage and ensure reliable communications for both indoor and outdoor coverage for DS Energy and its end customers, and to contribute to growth by enabling DS Energy to benefit from the full Netmore service platform and offering.
Test tool simplifies and automates LoRaWAN certification
By LoRa Alliance Certification Committee | April 28, 2022
LoRaWAN certification is the solution for successfully scaling long-range, low-power end-devices for IoT. The LoRaWAN Certification Test Tool (LCTT) accelerates time to market through test automation.
To successfully scale IoT over billions of devices, end-users need confidence that their devices will operate correctly. That’s where the need for industry standards comes in. The LoRa Alliance, which develops and maintains the LoRaWAN open standard, offers simple and inexpensive pre-certification testing reduce the time to certify end-devices. Manufacturers can now perform this testing, which lets them debug prior to pursuing formal certification at an authorized test house.
Before diving into LoRaWAN certification and testing, we’ll explain the need to understand how LoRa, LoRaWAN, and the certification program relate to each other.
Read more: https://www.5gtechnologyworld.com/test-tool-simplifies-and-automates-lorawan-certification/
LoRaWAN, que je t’aime – Orange reaffirms LoRa affair, keeps the WAN in LoRaWAN
Mobile operator Orange has reaffirmed its support for LoRaWAN in France “until at least 2027”, committing to maintain the non-cellular technology as a terrestrial IoT network with nationwide coverage in the country of its birth – even as cellular 5G expands as an IoT workhorse in the medium term. It went so far as to suggest LoRaWAN is better than its cellular equivalents, NB-IoT and LTE-M, for battery-powered IoT, and name-checked Microsoft and Amazon as colaborators with Orange in the LoRa Alliance.
The message from Orange, responding to an appeal for clarification from Enterprise IoT Insights after fellow operator Bouygues Telecom announced it will shut down its LoRaWAN network in France from 2024, and stop selling LoRaWAN immediately, goes some way to resolve a dramatic untangling of French-born unlicensed IoT, which has also seen Toulouse-based Sigfox go into receivership and bankruptcy in France and the US, respectively.
Read more: https://enterpriseiotinsights.com/20220405/internet-of-things/lorawan-que-je-taime-orange-reaffirms-lora-affair-keeps-the-wan-in-lorawan
Solving IoT Scalability with Low-Power Wide Area Networks
ITU recognizing LoRaWAN as an international standard for LPWAN is important for Industrial IoT.
If you take public transport, you’ve likely experienced a loss of cell phone service while underground on a subway train or waiting in a concrete-enclosed bus terminal. Although many facilities try to overcome the loss of mobile connectivity with Wi-Fi, and more work is being done with 5G to tackle the issue, most networks continue to be slow and unreliable due to the large volume of connected devices. As a result, many people are resigned to consuming downloaded media or accept that they cannot use their devices during these travel times.
Read more: https://www.engineering.com/story/solving-iot-scalability-with-low-power-wide-area-networks
Australia uses LoRaWAN to boost Victoria’s AgTech sector
Farmers in Australia’s south-eastern state of Victoria are getting a helping hand from a vast IoT network.
Deployed by Australian IoT operator National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo), and funded by the Victorian government’s On-Farm IoT Trial, it uses the non-cellular LoRaWAN standard to connect a broad array of sensors. Various agriculture technology (AgTech) use cases have been trialed so far. These include keeping tabs on soil moisture and the weather, which helps farmers determine the best time and volume of water to use on their crops. Other uses include monitoring levels in water storage tanks and silos, and being alerted when gates are opened.
Read More: https://telecoms.com/514368/australia-uses-lorawan-to-boost-victorias-agtech-sector/
Kerlink & VIoT Group Deploying Vietnam’s First Nationwide LoRaWAN® Network & Helium Blockchain System
Thorigné-Fouillard, France and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – March 15, 2022, 8:00 a.m. CEST – Kerlink (AKLK – FR0013156007), a specialist in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), and VIoT Group, a pioneer in smart urban & industrial park development in Vietnam, today announced their partnership to rollout Vietnam’s first nationwide LoRaWAN® IoT network, and VIoT’s plan to support Helium’s “The People’s Network”.
LoRaWAN® Deployments Achieve Market Leadership; Deliver Strong ROI for IoT Across Wide Spectrum of Industries Across France and Spain
2021 was LoRaWAN’s strongest year ever in terms of global adoption, deployments and expanded roaming; formally recognized as a standard by ITU-T
Fremont, Calif. – March 15, 2022 – The LoRa Alliance®, the global association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN® standard for the internet of things (IoT) low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs), today announced significant market traction across France and Spain, which positions LoRaWAN as the preferred LPWAN technology in the region. LoRaWAN is already recognized as the global choice for LPWAN, with more than 225 million LoRa/LoRaWAN end nodes and growing, and LoRaWAN networks available worldwide.
In France, more than 3.5 million assets are already connected using LoRa/LoRaWAN, with over 1.5M additional LoRaWAN devices in deployment and multiple countrywide networks. In Spain, there are already 500,000 devices deployed using LoRaWAN, and adoption is increasing rapidly, with more than 200,000 to be deployed in 2022, with nationwide network rollouts actively underway. For example, the Spanish government has set the ambitious goal of deploying 13.5 million smart water meters by 2025 – an estimated 1.35 billion Euro investment. LoRa Alliance member Everynet has joined forces with American Tower de Espana, the largest independent towerco in the country with more than 11,000 tower sites, to deploy a national LoRaWAN network in support of the governments’ goal. Given these projects in Spain, a consensus of industry analysts forecast that LoRaWAN will reach 2 million connections over the next few years.
“LoRaWAN has experienced strong growth in France and Spain based on its excellent track record of supporting a range of IoT applications that deliver a strong ROI to businesses,” said Donna Moore, CEO and chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance. “With heightened global demand for IoT using LPWAN technologies, LoRaWAN is trusted. Combining this with broad network availability, considerable cost savings compared to NB-IoT and the ability to roam globally, LoRaWAN is the leading choice for LPWAN across multiple end markets.”
“2021 marked a turning point for LoRaWAN, as hundreds of companies in multiple sectors deployed large-scale LoRaWAN solutions that connected millions of objects to the internet,” she continued. “LoRa Alliance membership is active and growing in Europe broadly and France and Spain specifically, which is driving multiple large-scale deployments by some of the region’s leading companies, including Actility, Arson Metering, Cellnex, Engie, Everynet, Michelin, Orange, Parki, and Renault.”
LoRaWAN is the only LPWAN scaling with mass deployments and global roaming availability, which is backed by a broad, global ecosystem. Its growth was driven in large part by the acceleration of digital transformation, which moved from nice-to-have to a necessity among enterprises and cities globally, spurred on by the lessons learned from COVID-19. In short, digitization has become critical to providing better and more services to people to ensure safe environments.
There are many key enablers of LoRaWAN’s mass adoption:
- Recognized as an international open standard by independent SDO ITU-T
- Exponential growth in network coverage, which became worldwide in 2021
- Global roaming with flexible network models, which offer public, private, hybrid and community network options, ensuring long-term viability to serve the needs of a diverse and growing market
- Significant growth in deployments of scale driving digital transformation and delivering ROI
- Large and diverse membership ensures availability of products from multiple suppliers, ensuring complete freedom of choice for customers
- The maturity of the LoRaWAN ecosystem is proven in several verticals
“The LoRaWAN market has been following the classic ‘hype cycle.’ We are now entering the steady growth phase, with 100% year-on-year growth for connected devices,” said Olivier Hersent, CEO and CTO at Actility. “We are seeing the expected consolidation of the smaller players, as customers are no longer early adopters but mature industries, including Bouygues Construction, Schneider Electric, SNCF, Total, Veolia/Birdz and Volvo. LoRaWAN has become a ‘must have’ capability complementing leading IoT platforms to inject massive sensing data with minimum infrastructure and deployment overheads. The Actility ThingPark platform has made this seamless, and Actility ThingPark Exchange interconnects an increasing number of public and private LoRaWAN networks, with 60% YoY growth for deployed LoRaWAN network gateways.”
“This is the ideal time for the mass adoption of LoRaWAN technology, particularly as utilities and cities around the world look to become more connected and improve sustainability,” stated Everynet CEO Lawrence Latham. “LoRaWAN offers a far lower total cost of ownership and is highly secure. And it helps enterprises reduce their carbon footprint, which is something we all need to be focused on.”
An article from Journal du Net cited a recent BearingPoint report, which noted that in France, LoRa/LoRaWAN is chosen for 64% of new IoT projects, far ahead of cellular (29%) and Sigfox (25%). The LoRa Alliance expects that gap to widen because LoRaWAN offers the opportunity to support customers with multimode solutions for end devices, enabling the same device to use LoRaWAN, Sigfox or other connectivity. Murata, AcSip and Nemeus, for example, offer modules that support both Sigfox and LoRaWAN. Further supporting this approach, many public operators can support multi-RAN deployments providing multiple connectivity options to end users. Multimode approaches give users choice for the long haul and a pathway to enable even more IoT use cases because of the dual technology possibilities. They also assure long-term ROI and viability of technology choices without the need to modify or replace existing systems.
LoRaWAN World Expo Coming to Paris
The LoRa Alliance will host the LoRaWAN World Expo at the Palais des Congrès July 6-7. The program will have a key focus on the French and Spanish markets, featuring Mariya Gabriel, European commissioner for innovation, research, culture, education and youth; Laure de la Raudière, president of France’s Electronic Communications, Postal and Print Media Distribution Regulatory Authority Arcep; Daniel Mes, Member of the Cabinet of Executive Vice-President on the European Green Deal; and Juan Ramon Arraibi, COO of Nortegas. The Expo will provide visitors access to the full LoRaWAN ecosystem, the opportunity to network with leading experts and businesses using LoRaWAN to understand how they are achieving strong ROIs. Attendees will gain an understanding of how to accelerate their LoRaWAN activities across any vertical or geographic region to grow their business. Finally, visitors will experience the impact of LoRaWAN firsthand, and can learn the fundamentals of LoRaWAN technology.
“It is clear the world stage is set for significant, rapid market acceleration of LoRaWAN in the coming year, with France and Spain among the leaders in Europe, along with the U.K., Germany and Italy. As we look ahead to the rest of 2022, I’m very excited to bring the LoRaWAN community together at the LoRaWAN World Expo to experience the technology’s global impact and invite participants from all companies considering LPWAN solutions to join us to understand why LoRaWAN is the market leader and how it can easily serve their long-term LPWAN needs, whether they’re just starting their IoT journey or considering alternative solutions,” said Moore.
Interested in the LoRaWAN World Expo? Learn more and register here. Limited sponsorship and exhibition opportunities are still available; please contact events@lora-alliance.org for details. Media and analysts are invited to attend LoRaWAN World Expo at no cost. Contact lora-alliance@kiterocket.com for registration details.
About LoRa Alliance®
The LoRa Alliance® is an open, nonprofit association that has become one of the largest and fastest-growing alliances in the technology sector since its inception in 2015. Its members closely collaborate and share expertise to develop and promote the LoRaWAN® standard, which is the de facto global standard for secure, carrier-grade IoT LPWAN connectivity. LoRaWAN has the technical flexibility to address a broad range of IoT applications, both fixed and mobile, and a robust LoRaWAN Certification program to guarantee that devices perform as specified. The LoRaWAN standard has been deployed by more than 165 major mobile network operators globally, with connectivity available worldwide. More information: lora-alliance.org
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Wyld and TrakAssure form partnership to offer global LoRaWAN satellite based IoT connectivity for asset tracking
Wyld Networks and TrakAssure to provide terrestrial and satellite IoT connectivity for the supply chain.
Wyld Networks and TrakAssure LLC will integrate the Wyld Connect hybrid LoRaWAN satellite IoT connectivity solution into TrakAssure’s asset tracking IoT sensors for the supply chain market.
The companies will also offer the joint end-to-end solution globally in other complementary IoT markets.
Continure reading: https://iotbusinessnews.com/2022/02/22/09021-wyld-and-trakassure-form-partnership-to-offer-global-lorawan-satellite-based-iot-connectivity-for-asset-tracking/
Ellenex, Actility to Offer Integrated LoRaWAN IoT Solutions
Ellenex, leading Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) device manufacturer, based in Australia, and covering wide range of industrial applications from farming to oil & gas or smart cities, has joined forces with Actility as a Channel Partner to broaden their offer with ThingPark solutions.
Ellenex is a pioneer engineering and technology company creating new ground in the industrial internet of things (IIoT) space. This company designs and manufactures low power sensors, operating systems, and software platforms to address challenges on industrial asset monitoring in remote areas. With more than 20 years of experience in design, manufacturing, and integration, Ellenex was one of the first companies to introduce integrated LPWAN sensors and solutions to the market, offering one of the widest ranges of LPWAN measurement systems to monitor industrial assets in water and wastewater, agriculture and farming, smart cities and HVAC, transport and logistics, mining and construction, and oil and gas.
Highly secure LoRaWAN networking solution meets needs of wide selection of IoT applications
Avnet Silica offers the availability of Microsoft Azure Sphere-enabled LoRaWAN gateways from Miromico. The new LoRaWAN gateways seamlessly combine the Microsoft Azure Sphere platform, which allows monitoring, tracking and managing data in virtually every environment from buildings to factories, hospitals, agricultural and retail applications, and smart cities. Integrating the platform from qiio, the gateway supports cellular, Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity, with effortless deployment and automatic management.
Continue reading: https://www.electropages.com/2022/02/highly-secure-lorawan-networking-solution-meets-needs-wide-selection-iot-applications
Free LoRaWAN Book
“This book is a tremendous resource for anyone interested in LoRaWAN technology. You will simply discover why LoRaWAN is the premier leading solution for large scale LPWAN deployments. Many thanks to the Savoie Mont Blanc University team on behalf of the LoRa Alliance.” says Donna Moore , CEO and Chairwoman of the LoRa Alliance
This document deals with all Device type from all manufacturer, all LoRaWAN Server and all IoT Platform. This means that we only provide generic information that is useful for all objects and for all infrastructures. If you follow the document, you should be able to work with any Devices, any Gateways, or to switch your infrastructure to any Network Server.
This book does not contain any “tutorial style” explanation, but tries to give precise and valuable information to understand the global LoRaWAN ecosystem.
This book is free of charge and you can find on this page the latest version. There will be more content added regularly and you can sign up to receive notification at the next update . If you want to give a feedback on this document or if you find any mistakes, we would be grateful to report it by using the contact page.
Continue reading: https://www.univ-smb.fr/lorawan/en/free-book/
BENEFITS OF JOINING THE LORA ALLIANCE®: A LORAWAN® VENDOR VIEW
TEKTELIC is well known in the LoRaWAN® (Long Range Wide Area Network) ecosystem for the most comprehensive and best performance portfolio of LoRaWAN® IoT Gateways and Devices. In part this is because the TEKTELIC team has a long history and experience in developing Carrier Grade 3G-5G wireless solutions for global Tier 1 integrators in the technology sector such as Nortel, Ericsson, Kapsch, Harris and many Tier 1 and Tier 2 wireless network operators. However, TEKTELIC’s strong design and development experience alone did not guarantee success in the LoRaWAN® space, it has been the open standard and dynamic ecosystem created by the LoRa Alliance® that has greatly contributed to TEKTELIC’s success.
Continue reading: https://tektelic.com/knowledge/expertise/lora-alliance-membership
SAFETY CERTIFICATIONS FOR OUTDOOR LORAWAN GATEWAY DESIGNS – BEYOND IP RATINGS
Introduction
While terms like “IP67” or other ingress protection rating are used fast and loose to promote equipment, there is a significant difference between simply declaring equipment as “IP67” or similar and truly outdoor equipment.
The term “Outdoor” has special meaning when associated with a safety certified product, this term cannot be used to describe or otherwise market a product unless it has gone through a number of important evaluations and tests culminating in a special outdoor equipment certificate.
Continue reading: https://tektelic.com/knowledge/expertise/lorawan-gateway-ip-rating
LORAWAN GATEWAY LIGHTNING PROTECTION AND GROUNDING: WHAT TO CONSIDER FOR A DEPENDABLE LORAWAN NETWORK
What is the difference between a reference design in a box and a real product?
A lot really! There are many salient design aspects which make for field reliable outdoor equipment. One of these aspects is dealing with the real-world effects of Electromagnetic Interference (EMI).
Electromagnetic Interference immunity compliance deals with the effects of electrical interference imposed on equipment from severe natural phenomenon such as lightning as well as from more benign human originating phenomenon such as Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), Electrical Fast Transients (EFT), and strong electric and magnetic fields (EMF).
Tower mounted radio equipment such as a Gateway or Basestation with antenna requires special attention to ensure a long and trouble-free field life.
Continue reading: https://tektelic.com/knowledge/expertise/gateway-lightning-protection
WHAT IS CAVITY RF FILTER AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
With the global deployment of the LoRaWAN® and Sigfox IoT LPWAN networks that operate in 868 MHz and 915 MHz global unlicensed spectrum, there have been many questions if Cavity RF Filters are required, what is their main purpose, and why they can’t be replaced with other type filters such as SAW, BAW, Ceramic filters and others that are mounted on the PCB after the Low Noise Amplifier (LNA).
Continue reading: https://tektelic.com/knowledge/expertise/cavity-filter