So 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

So 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