10-19-2021, 06:16 PM
LoRa in general is a bit of a mess. It's not Pine64.
Of the two older competitors, LoRa is more friendly to new systems than Sigfox is. But both come with more restrictions than I suspect Pine wants. Plus, there are few open LoRaWAN installations around for people to use in exploratory manners. To make matters even worse, if I recall correctly, they don't actually enforce airtime restrictions.
That will fall back on vendors to pretend to "enforce" them via software and other restrictions. Should the technology ever really take off... And that would cause problems for existing systems that ignore the duty cycle aspects.
Or that's my view from looking into these for monitoring honey bee hives around town (Atlanta, GA, US area) a while ago. The various LTE systems, well, their networks exist. There are cheap plans. But then vendors must kowtow to the networks' certification requirements, otherwise known as payola. All for what's a public resource here in the US.
It's fun, really.
Of the two older competitors, LoRa is more friendly to new systems than Sigfox is. But both come with more restrictions than I suspect Pine wants. Plus, there are few open LoRaWAN installations around for people to use in exploratory manners. To make matters even worse, if I recall correctly, they don't actually enforce airtime restrictions.
That will fall back on vendors to pretend to "enforce" them via software and other restrictions. Should the technology ever really take off... And that would cause problems for existing systems that ignore the duty cycle aspects.
Or that's my view from looking into these for monitoring honey bee hives around town (Atlanta, GA, US area) a while ago. The various LTE systems, well, their networks exist. There are cheap plans. But then vendors must kowtow to the networks' certification requirements, otherwise known as payola. All for what's a public resource here in the US.
It's fun, really.