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Prototyping - Internet of Things (IoT)
Do you need to measure or control something close or at a distance? Are you involved in tracking predators, fish farming or perhaps in agriculture? Kopland can offer help and solutions. LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Networks ) can have many endpoints in a large area with few connection points/gateways. Endpoints consist of sensor/actuator, microcontroller, radio part and often battery. The various radio solutions have different characteristics such as bandwidth, coverage and battery life
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a collective term for something that has actually existed for a long time.
The figure below shows some of the radio systems. LoRa, Sigfox, Bluetooth/BLE and WiFi that use open radio frequencies, while those via mobile operators (3GPP) use licensed frequencies.
IoT drawingIoT networks with different radio protocols
For LPWAN IoT prototyping, it may be appropriate to use LoRaWAN with the possibility of control over the entire system. There are no license requirements.
Starting LoRaWAN prototyping requires a reasonable low priced LoRa gateway (GW), as well as cheap endpoints. As a backend system, 'The Things Network' (TTN) can be used. TTN works by sharing LoRa GWs, which overall provides you better coverage. In the back system of TTN, endpoints can be configured/provisioned. Incoming data from the endpoints will land in the TTN's broker topics. Each topic/endpoint of interest can then be subscribed to by applications and for instance displayed on screen in data graphs etc.
IoT drawingTTN GWs (click the image, it will lead you to TTN's homepage)
TTN has different 'communities' in different locations. Kopland started the first TTN community in Oslo (second after the one established in Trondheim). At the same time, the first TTN GW in the Oslo area was set up on the roof of the Teleplan building at Lysaker and used for prototyping. Here is a link to the TTN Oslo community:
IoT drawingTTN Oslo (click the image, it will lead you to TTN Oslo's homepage)
Please get in touch for a non-binding IoT chat. IoT is fun!