[HH] IOT and LoRaWAN™ (Long Range wide-area networks)

[Stephen Ronan]

Some items I'm finding helpful while trying to understand this
better.. In the first, TI staff criticize LoRaWAN's spread spectrum
technology as handling interference far less well than TI's, mostly
narrowband, competitive technology.

https://e2e.ti.com/support/wireless_connectivity/proprietary_sub_1_ghz_simpliciti/f/156/p/343273/1477077

Looks like Sigfox with its long-range narrowband IoTnetworks aims to
come to Boston:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2883212/sigfox-taps-new-funding-to-expand-its-iot-network-around-the-world.html

Contrasting Sigfox and LoRa:
http://rethink-iot.com/2015/03/20/on-lpwans-why-sigfox-and-lora-are-rather-different-and-the-importance-of-the-business-model/

And some third-party testing... far from thorough but perhaps of interest:
http://embeddedexperience.blogspot.fi/2015/02/real-life-performance-of-lora-radio.html

  - Stephen