Questions tagged [thingpark]
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LoRaWAN backhaul overheads over satellite or cellular
LoRaWAN is optimized for the constrained LoRa physical layer, however the gateways add their own overheads when relaying LoRaWAN frames to/from the network servers, and there is also trafic related to the operations and maintenance of the…
Olivier HERSENT
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LoRaWAN roaming for overlapping networks
Why shall we consider having a LoRaWAN roaming agreement with another LoRaWAN network operator that has partly overlapping network coverage with our network? Our end devices are fixed (e.g.: water meters, temperature sensors, etc.) and our network…
Norbert Herbert
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What are the datarate and ADR best practices for moving objects
For static objects, LoRaWAN has a very neat 'Adaptive Datarate (ADR)' feature that is key to the scalability of the protocol, it allows the network server to select the fastest uplink datarate compatible with target packet error rate (to conserve…
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The impact of LoRaWAN repeated transmissions
The LoRaWAN spec defines the LinkADRReq MAC command with a field (NbTrans) specifying the number of requested repeated transmissions of every frame. Actility claims that their ADRv3 algorythm uses that field to improve the packet error rate by…
Norbert Herbert
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LoRaWAN end-to-end security with Over The Air Activation
We are planning to connect several thousands of door opening and other home security sensors to a public LoRaWAN network country-wide, but our concern is, that in theory our public LoRaWAN network provider can decode the devices' messages. We may…
Norbert Herbert
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Firmware update over a LoRaWAN network
We are planning to connect several thousands of LoRaWAN connected water meters. The expected battery life time is 8+ years. Our concern is that meter suppliers are releasing new firmware version including bug fixes quite often (~ in every 6 month)…
Norbert Herbert
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Application Server - ThingPark - End to end security
From the LoRa Alliance specification, we know that the LoRaWAN Application Server handles the decryption (uplink) and the encryption (downlink) thanks to the AppSkey. The first thing which is not clear is that Thinkpark is a LNS, so supposed to deal…
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LoRaWAN device not receiving Join Accept
I have provisioned my LoRaWAN class A device using OTAA on the ThingPark Community platform.
Now, it doesn't seem to receive a Join Accept message from the network as answer to the Join Request that is sent. What could be the issue here?
Lode Van Halewyck
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LoRaWAN device leaving a network and then coming back... what Join behavior to expect?
For smart-city or industrial campus type of projects, there are devices that leave the network for e.g. 2 days (worker leaving on a week-end), and then come back... but they might remain disconnected for a while until the next Re-join.
The LoRa…
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Location Solver with LoRaWAN trackers
We use Abeeway Compact Trackers connected via a ThingPark powered LoRaWAN network to track pallets. Our Application Server receives and decodes messages and stores the location coordinates in a DB so that the App Server can visualise the location…
Norbert Herbert
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Thingpark Enterprise question on Applications
We've been using Thingpark Enterprise cloud for a while now and we 're facing a difficulty in adding new Application outputs to our existing devices.
We 're using MQTT as an output on an existing project (about 2k devices) and we need to extend our…
Panos Matsaridis
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Forwarding from ThingStack (Actility) to AllMeteo (Barani Design) portal
I'd like to forward data from my (successfully added) LoRaWAN IoT sensor in my ThingPark portal to the AllMeteo portal from Barani Design. How do I achive this? Consulting the help section in the AllMeteo portal does not provide instructions for…
Johannes
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