Longer Range WAN (LoRaWAN)

Enabling optimal asset traceability, reliability, availability, and performance with LoraWAN

Great idea and a huge opportunity, isn’t it?

We must confess, it’s hard not to get a little excited about LoRaWAN, with its low power, long reach, enhanced GPS performance and lack of interference with, say, Bluetooth or WiFi. It operates in the international and free-to-use ISM frequency band (868 or 915 MHz), proven to be interference-free even in ‘crowded’ locations with many tags. And we’ve seen tags ‘talk’ successfully to LoRa gateways 10 km away. Our Sense range of IoT devices is set to accelerate this evolution — choose from advanced sensor tags in different housings for a variety of use cases.

How LoRaWAN works with SmartX HUB?

LoRa (Long Range) is a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) physical-layer protocol based on spread spectrum modulation techniques; cloud-based medium access control (MAC) layer protocol LoRaWAN acts mainly as a handler for routing information between low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) gateways and end node devices.

Data transmitted by an end-node device is received by multiple gateways, which forward the data packets to a centralized network server. The central server in turn handles packet filtering, security, and network management. In the SmartX HUB range, LoRaWAN is largely used to increase the ability to communicate over longer distances, sometimes in conjunction with other technologies like GPS. This enables SmartX HUB to develop advanced RFID solutions for a wider range of applications and use cases, customized at an affordable price point for unique environments.