LoRa & LoRaWAN Explained! TTN Gateway & Device Setup - Cicerone Board Demo

This video covers the basics of what LoRa and LoRaWAN are and how to use it in your projects including how to set up a gateway and use The Things Network (TTN).

Thank you to Move-X for sponsoring this video, please check out their Cicerone board here: https://www.move-x.it/cicerone-board/. This board is an STM32WL powered board with LoRaWAN connectivity in the Arduino MKR form factor. It features GPS connectivity through the onboard UBlox chip and onboard LiPo charging.

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LoRa is a physical layer in the O.S.I network model. In this case the physical layer is RF signals. LoRa is one of many ways to get data over radio waves from a transmitter to a receiver somewhere else and LoRa is a short form of Long Range. LoRa transmissions can travel up to 15km in open rural spaces and up to about 5 kilometres in more dense urban areas.

LoRaWAN is a wide area network protocol that is built on top of the LoRa modulation that we have just described. Together LoRa and LoRaWAN form a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN). A typical LoRaWAN architecture is arranged in a star topology and consists of end devices, gateways, network servers, application servers and finally an end user application server.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:53 Contents
01:11 What is LoRa?
03:02 Modulation
04:01 Spreading Factors
04:33 Licence Exempt Bands
04:56 What is LoRaWAN
07:08 When to use LoRa?
07:43 Demo: Gateway Setup
10:46 Demo: End Device Setup
13:33 Conclusion

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