LoRa evaluation kits

15 June 2016 Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

Microchip announced availability of the industry’s first complete LoRa technology evaluation kits. The new kits provide customers with all the components required to create a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) for North America in the 915 MHz band (DV164140-2), or for Europe in the 868 MHz band (DV164140-1). Each kit includes two motes (LoRaWAN sensors) based on Microchip’s RN2483 or RN2903 LoRa modules, a LoRaWAN gateway and a local LoRaWAN server application.

Driven by the LoRa Alliance, LoRa technology is able to achieve a range of up to 16 km and 10-year battery life. The technology targets low data rates and low-duty-cycle applications for tracking and monitoring in applications such as energy, location, utility infrastructure, smart city, environment, agriculture and public safety. Although predominantly used for the uplink of sensor data, bidirectional communications allow real-time acknowledgement of mission-critical data and downlink control of remote actuator nodes.

For more information contact Shane Padayachee, Avnet South Africa, +27 (0)11 319 8600, shane.padayachee@avnet.eu, www.avnet.co.za

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