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The 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 s
by phone8675309 5y ago
The 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