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IoT Technology

The IoT industry sometimes required long range communication hence manufacturers investing heavily in the market growing the industry exponentially. however every technology has advantages disadvantages. One of the key challenges in building out the internet of things is ensuring that those “things” or end nodes are in fact able to communicate with the other nodes and as well as the internet. The large  number of current internet devices is massive and is expected to raise by 2020. Any network that supports such an infrastructure must have the ability to handle huge traffic. These issues don’t include the fact that nodes need to run on some sort of battery power, have weak radios and also are limited in memory and processing power.



IoT devices  use a number of different technologies to support their communications, but they are not really ideal for the purpose and application of today. Wi-Fi is everywhere at the moment but it uses a lot of energy and transmits lots of data, whilst this is great it isn’t such a perfect solution for IoT devices usually don’t have as much energy at their disposal or wish to transmit small amounts of data. There are also limitations in the modulation techniques used and as such access points can only handle a handful of devices at once.

Bluetooth devices allow local communication but has very limited range in version 4.0. They also require too much power. Even newer Bluetooth Low Energy devices still consume much more power than is necessary. Up to recently the best available technology on the market was considered to be ZigBee low power modules that transmit over greater distances and at low transfer rates, usually a few kilometers in clear path. hence the need for a Lora Module. 

what is Lora module.

Lora was developed by a company called Semtech and it is a new wireless protocol designed specifically for long-range, low-power communications. LoRa stands for Long Range Radio and is mainly targeted for M2M and IoT networks. This technology will enable public or multi-tenant networks to connect a number of applications running on the same network.



Lora RF Supports 860-1000 MHz frequency and has a range of 2-5Km with data rates uto 300kbps while consuming very little power.

Summary

Clearly lora is going to play a big role in the IoT market interconnection devices to create smart cities, providing industrial and commercial solutions whilst reducing the power consumption and other overheads. LoRa is easy to interface sometimes called with the following names LoRa Raspberry pi, LoRA SCADA device, LoRA Arduino, LoRA Gateway .

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