LoRa and IoT
Hey folks! This is my first blog so please be patient. So recently I received an Arduino MKR 1300 board in a competition and the box said " with LoRa connective" and that's when i heard this term for the first time. So I decided to research about the same and here is what I learnt. LoRa stands for " Long Range ". It is was developed by a company called Semtech . As the name suggests it's a technology which is used in long range data transmission. You must be thinking "Long range! Okay, but what's special about this technology? We can use gsm for that matter or even the internet. So why LoRa?" As we all know IoT is the future. IoT is every where these days. A basic IoT system reads some data from a node and sends the data to a server/cloud using a gateway. This transfer of data can be done in various ways depending upon the application. Some come methods are bluetooth, wifi, gsm etc. Now bluetooth and wifi have a very short range and