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LoRA isn’t a “proprietary” standard. It’s open to everyone to use. It operates at 900 mMHz, though, so the point is that your average WiFi or Bluetooth device c
by URSpider94 5y ago
LoRA isn’t a “proprietary” standard. It’s open to everyone to use. It operates at 900 mMHz, though, so the point is that your average WiFi or Bluetooth device can’t transmit or receive it. That 900 MHz spectrum is unlicensed, so buy a dev kit from Adafruit and go make some RF noise!
- phone8675309 5y agoThe first sentence on the LoRA article on Wikipedia is: > LoRa (Long Range) is a proprietary low-power wide-area network modulation technique. It is based on spread spectrum modulation techniques derived from chirp spread spectrum (CSS) technology. It was developed by Cycleo of Grenoble, France and acquired by Semtech, the founding member of the LoRa Alliance and it is patented. It's proprietary, patented, and not open. It shouldn't be on the airwaves.
- akiselev 5y agoSo are 3G, 4G, and 5G. So is WiFi. "Proprietary" just means you need a to buy a licensed LoRa radio chip to use the protocol in a commercial product - something you can do on digikey for $5. The implementation of the protocol itself is well known and you can easily interact with LoRa devices using an SDR [1]. [1] https://github.com/myriadrf/LoRa-SDR https://github.com/myriadrf/LoRa-SDR