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I answered to the below linked question and started to think, what are the hardware specs for running an IoT stack of for example MQTT over LoraWan? Would Raspberry PI 3 survive or not?

I do not care how RPI connects LoraWan, mainly about RAM and storage use.

How to select simple light weight IoT server for development?

mico
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A Raspberry Pi 3 is a pretty serious bit of kit when you think about it

  • Quad core Arm Cortex
  • 1gb of RAM
  • a onboard GPU

That is a huge amount of memory, easily more than enough to run a MQTT broker and something like Node-RED to interface between a LoRa radio and the broker.

We have a commercial gateway (MultiTech MultiConnect Conduit) in the office which is a very similarly spec'd bit of kit and if you google loRawan gateway most of the first page is all about how to build one with a pi.

hardillb
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