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2019 | Book

Introduction to LoRa and LoRaWAN Read chapter Read first chapter

Beginning LoRa Radio Networks with Arduino

Build Long Range, Low Power Wireless IoT Networks

Author: Pradeeka Seneviratne

Publisher: Apress

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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About this book

Create your own LoRa wireless projects for non-industrial use and gain a strong basic understanding of the LoRa technology, LoRa WAN, and LPWAN.
You'll start by building your first LoRa wireless channel and then move on to various interesting projects such as setting up networks with a LoRa gateway, communicating with IoT servers using RESTful API and MQTT protocol, and real-time GPS tracking.
With LoRa wireless and LoRaWAN, you can build a wide array of applications in the area of smart agriculture, smart cities, smart environment, smart healthcare, smart homes and buildings, smart industrial control, smart metering, smart supply chain and logistics. Beginning LoRa Radio Networks with Arduino provides a practical introduction and uses affordable and easy to obtain hardware to build projects with the Arduino development environment.
What You’ll Learn
Understand the hardware need to build LoRaWAN
Use the Arduino development environment to write codeConnect to Arduino hardware and upload programs and communicate with them
Setup networks with LoRa gateway
Show real time track with tail, and path history
Who This Book Is For

Inventors, hackers, crafters, students, hobbyists, and scientists

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Introduction to LoRa and LoRaWAN
Abstract
Radios are exciting pieces of hardware that can be used to build wireless communication links. Radios used to listen to voice and audio are known as receivers; your home radio, for example, can only tune into and receive radio stations. Radios that can be used to transmit voice and audio are known as transmitters; radio stations use transmitters to broadcast programs. Radios that can do both (transmit and receive) are known as transceivers; a walkie-talkie is an example of a two-way radio transceiver.
Pradeeka Seneviratne
Chapter 2. Obtaining and Preparing Hardware
Abstract
In Chapter 1, you learned that the LoRaWAN architecture consists of end nodes (also known as end devices or sensor LoRa nodes) and gateways. End nodes and gateways can be built with various hardware and software options. This chapter introduces some easy-to-find hardware that you can use to build end nodes and single-channel gateways.
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Chapter 3. Setting Up the Software Development Environment
Abstract
This chapter covers how to set up the software development environment to build single-channel LoRa wireless radio networks. First, you will learn how to install and configure the Arduino IDE on the Windows operating system to work with Arduino boards, RFM9x radio transceivers, GPS modules, temperature sensors, and so forth, for building LoRa end nodes (sensor nodes). In the latter part of this chapter, you will learn how to install PuTTY on Windows as a prerequisite to building a single-channel LoRa gateway with the Raspberry Pi.
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Chapter 4. Building a Peer-to-Peer Channel
Abstract
In this chapter, you will learn how to build a peer-to-peer communication channel using two LoRa radio transceiver modules. Building a peer-to-peer communication channel is not LoRaWAN compatible, but it provides a way to better understand how messages can be exchanged between two LoRa radio transceivers.
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Chapter 5. Building a LoRa Gateway
Abstract
In this chapter, you will learn how to build a low-cost single-channel LoRa gateway based on the Raspberry Pi. The gateway uses a single-channel packet forwarder to forward incoming data packets to the Things Network ( https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/ ). Then, you will create an application on the Things Network to decode the payloads to extract sensor data from the data packet.
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Chapter 6. Connecting with IoT Servers Using a RESTful API
Abstract
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to send data to an IoT server using a RESTful API. A RESTful API is an application program interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE data. The ThingSpeak IoT platform enables clients to update and receive updates from channel feeds through the ThingSpeak RESTful API.
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Chapter 7. Connecting with IoT Servers Using MQTT
Abstract
In this chapter, you will learn how to send data to an IoT server using the MQTT protocol with a LoRa wireless network. The ThingSpeak IoT platform enables clients to update and receive updates from channel feeds through the ThingSpeak MQTT broker. MQTT is a publish/subscribe communication protocol that uses TCP/IP sockets or WebSockets. MQTT over WebSockets can be secured with SSL. A client device connects to the MQTT broker and can publish to a channel or subscribe to updates from that channel.
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Chapter 8. GPS Tracking
Abstract
The Global Position System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system that provides continuous positioning and timing information anywhere in the world under any weather condition.
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Backmatter
Metadata
Title
Beginning LoRa Radio Networks with Arduino
Author
Pradeeka Seneviratne
Copyright Year
2019
Publisher
Apress
Electronic ISBN
978-1-4842-4357-2
Print ISBN
978-1-4842-4356-5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4357-2

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