CEC Semester Twelve 2017
Getting Started in LoRaWAN - Hands-On
Charles J. Lord -
November 27,
2017
An Overview of Low-Power IoT Technologies
The Internet of Things, with its billions of nodes, will often require a significant number of these nodes to be able to operate over battery power, perhaps for years between changes. The quest for a low-power technology to enable this has produced a number of interesting solutions. In our lead-off class we will look at these solutions and how LoRa fits in with these.
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November 28,
2017
Introduction to LoRa and LoRaWAN
In our second class, we will look in detail at the way that LoRa and LoRaWAN operate and what we will need for a robust LoRaWAN system, including the server network.
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November 29,
2017
Hands-On
In our third class, we will go through the process of designing a simple system using LoRaWAN, including a survey of what solutions are available to us. We will then design a simple node using our example board from STMicro.
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November 30,
2017
No Service? No Problem! Building your own LoRaWAN Server
One of the challenges of implementing LoRaWAN is that there may not be the existing WAN structure available in either the developer's area or in the customer's vicinity. In our penultimate class, we will look at some solutions available to us for both off-the-shelf as well as build-your-own servers.
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December 1,
2017
Testing Our LoRaWAN Design
Now that we have our low-power nodes and a test server, in our final class we will test our LoRaWAN solution and look at ways we can optimize our battery life and other parameters that we can improve in our solution.
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Charles J. Lord