The Business of LoRaWAN
The Business of LoRaWAN
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All about the business of LoRaWAN. How it works, who uses it, why, how they save or make money with it. Conversations with IoT pros willing to share their knowledge and help your business.
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The podcast covers a range of topics related to LoRaWAN technology, including its applications in wildfire detection, agricultural innovation, smart city implementations, and environmental monitoring. For instance, episodes delve into how companies like Torch Sensors leverage LoRaWAN for rapid wildfire detection and how the technology can transform smart agriculture by deploying low-power sensors to collect data.
All about the business of LoRaWAN. How it works, who uses it, why, how they save or make money with it. Conversations with IoT pros willing to share their knowledge and help your business.
The episode explores how Lacuna Space uses LoRaWAN over low‑Earth‑orbit satellites to solve the traditional coverage limitations of terrestrial LoRaWAN networks. Jon Pearce explains that Lacuna targets low-power, low-bandwidth IoT use cases where devices send small, infrequent data packets directly from sensor to satellite, trading bandwidth for battery life and global reach.
Jon describes the company’s developer kit and antenna approach, along with typical data profiles such as water metering and environmental monitoring that can tolerate a few uplinks per day.
Pearce also outlines how Lacuna scales its constellation based on capacity and specific customer requirements, including sovereign or national deployments, and how it partners with other satellite operators to embed Lacuna technology on their spacecraft.
Throughout, he contrasts Lacuna’s model with legacy high-bandwidth satellite services and emphasizes the economics of expanding constellations for large, well-defined IoT rollouts like nationwide smart metering.
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- MeteoScientific Console – Use LoRaWAN – The MeteoScientific Console allows you to use LoRaWAN today. As long as you have Helium coverage (and you probably do, about 90% of populated areas in the world have a gateway within 2 miles), you can onboard a sensor. You can always check coverage at https://explorer.helium.com and switch to the “IoT” tab in the top right.
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