LoRa Meets Arduino, a Journey in the LPWAN World

Hi amirengineer2019 ,

I will see that these questions get to him. Those are both very good questions.

I'd a Question that was unfortunately not delivered to Andrea, I'm building and IOT system based on the LoraWan but with another solution that supports other LPWAN Technologies like ( Wifi - beside the LoraWan) which is very handy when we need to upgrade the firmware of the node , Since the Gateway down-link is very limited in data rate we can't use it to perform the update, we use the Wifi to perform  OTA (over the air ) upgrade to the firmware and that avoid us the need to connect other hardware or cables to make the upgrade (which is not easy some times due to the place of the node ) . So my question was does the Arduino MKR 1310 supports this feature also (OTA) or we must buy another Arduino Shield to perform it ?

Other question , Due to the internet connection buffering that happened i was not able to see the part about the Arduino Cloud, but i wanted to ask if it perform the same as the TTN (the things networks) functionality ? and if so what are the limitations that's added ( plus the existing limitations of the LORAWAN that's set by semtech) ?

What Arduino Cloud could do better than TTN ?

Hi embeddedguy ,

Typically, these webinars last for an hour.   We ran this webinar as long as possible and with the sheer volume of questions we could have run the webinar even longer and it would still be an engaging conversation with all the questions that were asked.   I tried to feed a variety of questions to Andrea, particularly questions that were not addressed with similar questions, or covered in the webinar.   Where I was able to provide context based on community member activity around Arduino, I did so, as well as linked to a ton of community member content related to Arduino under resources.

Nevertheless, it sounds like you had a question that you want to hear get answered that was missed.   We are planning to post responses to Q&A on the community and I will defer to Andrea when it comes to picking the best questions to send out swag and boards which we gave away based on questions asked.

Also,  this is a community where we encourage you to answer questions and many times another community member will answer.   Its also possible that a question that was missed during the webinar will be picked up and have an answer posted on the community.   Was there a particular question that you were hoping would be addressed or are hoping to find an answer to?  If you let us know we can do our best to try and get an answer to you.

Your point about gaining knowledge to understand concepts was what I got out of the webinar.

I had an epiphany when I my ear finally translated the speaker diction of LoRaONE to LoRaWAN. LoRa is the proprietary technology with LoRaWAN being the protocol standard.

The protocol is designed for minimal power consumption, over expanded distances with minimal data. It is not real time! Most people associate a network with real time data transfer. This network protocol reduces power by minimizing transmission of small data sets.

And here I was thinking that 300 baud data transmission rates were obsolete:) I'm wonder if my skills with paper tape reader punch devices might come in handy?

I attended the seminar and especially I would like to thank Andrea for a nice presentation and then a more nice Q&A. One thing which disappoints me was the anchor's(TA) biased nature about the selection of questions. He just was much opinionists about some industrial/applications with LoRaWAN and also talking about people of the community who worked a lot with Arduino. I mean to say there are also others who might not have worked with Arduino that much but they are quite interested and have experience working on other hardware.