Beginning LoRa Radio Networks with Arduino

LoRa and LoRaWAN permit inexpensive, long-range connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices in rural, remote and offshore industries. With LoRa wireless and LoRaWAN, you can build wide array of applications in the area of smart agriculture, smart cities, smart environment, smart healthcare, smart homes & buildings, smart industrial control, smart metering, smart supply chain & logistics, and many more.

Learn the basics of LoRa wireless and LoRaWAN. Build LoRa end devices and gateways with LoRa radio transceiver modules, Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Start your journey by building a simple peer-to-peer communication channel with two LoRa end devices. Next, build a simple single channel LoRa gateway with Raspberry Pi and forward uplink data to The Things Network. Also, write simple JavaScript functions to decode payloads to extract sensor data. Then, use RESTful API and MQTT protocol to send data to the ThingSpeak IoT platform. Finally, as a unique and useful project, build a real-time GPS tracker with The Things Network, IFTTT Maker Channel, IFTTT Webhooks, and Traccar.

Autorentext
Pradeeka Seneviratne is a software engineer with over 10 years of experience in computer programming and systems design. He is an expert in the development of Arduino and Raspberry Pi-based embedded systems and is currently a full-time embedded software engineer working with embedded systems and highly scalable technologies. Previously, Pradeeka worked as a software engineer for several IT infrastructure and technology servicing companies. He is the author of several books, including Beginning BBC micro:bit (Apress), Building Arduino PLCs (Apress), and Internet of Things with Arduino Blueprints (Packt).

Zusammenfassung
Create your own LoRa wireless projects for non-industrial use and gain a strong basic understanding of the LoRa technology, LoRa WAN, and LPWAN.
You'll start by building your first LoRa wireless channel and then move on to various interesting projects such as setting up networks with a LoRa gateway, communicating with IoT servers using RESTful API and MQTT protocol, and real-time GPS tracking.
With LoRa wireless and LoRaWAN, you can build a wide array of applications in the area of smart agriculture, smart cities, smart environment, smart healthcare, smart homes and buildings, smart industrial control, smart metering, smart supply chain and logistics. Beginning LoRa Radio Networks with Arduino provides a practical introduction and uses affordable and easy to obtain hardware to build projects with the Arduino development environment.
What You'll Learn

• Understand the hardware need to build LoRaWAN

• Use the Arduino development environment to write code

• Connect to Arduino hardware and upload programs and communicate with them

• Setup networks with LoRa gateway

• Show real time track with tail, and path history
  Who This Book Is For

  Inventors, hackers, crafters, students, hobbyists, and scientists

Inhalt
Chapter 1: What is LoRa (20 pages)Chapter Goad: This chapter will provide basic understanding of LoRa Technology, LoRaWAN, and LPWAN.•What is LoRa A brief introduction about what is LoRa and what it can do. •LoRaWAN protocol•LoRa Transceivers and Gateways•LoRa for Internet of Things applications•LoRaWAN regional parameters•LoRa Alliance
Chapter 2: Obtaining Hardware (30 pages)Chapter Goal: This chapter will introduce all the hardware need to build the LoRa radio projects.•Arduino UNO•LoRa end node: Arduino LoRa Shield 433MHz /868MHz /915MHz Version •LoRa end node: Lora /GPS Arduino Shield with 433MHz /868MHz /915MHz Versions •LoRa gateway: LG01-S IOT LoRa Gateway an open source single channel LoRa Gateway•Single channel and multi-channel gateway•LoRa Antennas •Dragino Yun Shield•LoRa Bee
Chapter 3: Getting Ready with the Arduino Development Environment (35 pages)Chapter Goal: This chapter will introduces Arduino development environment that can be used build LoRa projects. •Arduino development environment Installing, configuring, libraries•Using Arduino basics of Arduino UNO board, I/O pins, using hardware serial and software serial•Connecting LoRa shield with Arduino connecting LoRa shied to Arduino•Connecting with a computer•Identifying LED indicators•Writing your first ode with Arduino IDE•Reading GPS data Reading GPS data from onboard GPS module of the LoRa GPS shield and display on the serial monitor, identifying GPS fixing position•Using DHTXX (DHT11 or DHT22) Using DHTXX temperature-humidity sensor. This will provide a basic understanding of using external sensors with Arduino.•Using OLED display (optional topic) Using an OLED display to print device status, sensor data, and other useful messages.
Chapter 4: Building your First LoRa wireless channel (30 pages)Chapter Goal: This first part of this chapter will show you how to use a LoRa client (end point) and LoRa gateway (server) to build a simple communication channel to send and receive data using LoRa wireless. The latter part will explain how to replace the end node with another LoRa gateway to work as a client. •Communicating between LoRa client (end point) point to LoRa gateway (server) •Writing software for LoRa client and server•Communicating between two LoRa gateways (one configured as a client)•Writing software for LoRa gateways
Chapter 5: Setting up networks with LoRa Gateway (35 Pages)This chapter will presents various network setup modes can be used to work with LoRa gateway and connect it to the internet using WiFi, Ethernet, 3G or 4G cellular.Chapter Goal:•WAN Port Internet Mode•WiFi Client Mode•WiFi AP Mode•Mesh WiFi Network•USB Dial Up Mode•USB Ethernet Mode
Chapter 6: LoRa Gateway: Connecting with IoT server using RESTful (35 pages)This chapter will show you how to use RESTful API to connect with an IoT server. The reader will learn how to send sensor data to an IoT server through a LoRa single channel gateway and receiving data from a feed too.•Building the network - use LoRa shield + Arduino UNO and LoRa gateway to build a single channel gateway.•Connecting DHT22 temperature-humidity sensor with LoRa shield•Using an IoT server supports with RESTful API (i.e. Adafruit IO)•Publishing data to the IoT server using curl•Writing softwate for client and gateway to send data•Writing softwate for client and gateway to receive data•Sending data to/receiving data from the IoT server•Analyzing results
Chapter 7: LoRa Gateway: Connecting ...