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It's a great point. A smart network needs to scale down the transmit power of its nodes and gateways as the network density increases.
Hummm actually is more about the distance (in the radio topology) between the nodes and the gateway. Closer are the gateway to the nodes less power you need.
Is it still the case that LoRa is a single vendor proprietary technology? When I looked into it a bit it seemed like only Semtech produced LoRa chips and that it wasn't an open standard like 802.11, so it is unlikely that we will see offers from other vendors.
I believe Microchip licensed the IP from Semtech and has made their own chips: http://www.microchip.com/design-centers/wireless-connectivit...
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Hummm actually is more about the distance (in the radio topology) between the nodes and the gateway. Closer are the gateway to the nodes less power you need.
Yes, so if you have a uniform distribution of nodes and gateways over space, a node's nearest gateway gets closer as network density increases.
So the distribution is not uniform... On the other way, once an area is covered, more and more nodes are added.
It does not look like your target market, but I imagine this would be ideal for pet/valuable tracking. Put it in a collar or bike seat and if your fido goes for a stroll and does not come back you can search much faster with an easy drive down the road. Same thing to help find a stolen bike. If the transmitter could be inductively charged in a dog crate or where I park my bike -- it would be very convenient too. Ping…
Seems like the police could bait bikes with this technology to make a serious dent on bike theft in their city.
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Seems like the police could bait bikes with this technology to make a serious dent on bike theft in their city.
You'd have to hide the antenna well to do this.
It does not look like your target market, but I imagine this would be ideal for pet/valuable tracking. Put it in a collar or bike seat and if your fido goes for a stroll and does not come back you can search much faster with an easy drive down the road. Same thing to help find a stolen bike. If the transmitter could be inductively charged in a dog crate or where I park my bike -- it would be very convenient too. Ping…
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Shawn from Beep here. These use-cases sound really interesting. Send me an email? shawn at beepnetworks dot com
Hey what are your thoughts on sigfox? They got an investment from Samsung who are apparently integrating into their devices. Will this play out like vhs vs betamax?