Last update: 04/04/2019
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LoRa, a low-power, long-range radio technology for networks on a municipal scale, provides a low-cost infrastructure on which municipalities can build a plethora of Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Last month at the Plovdiv Conference in Bulgaria, Tsvetan Usunov, self-proclaimed hardware hacker, open-source hardware evangelist and founder of the open-source company Olimex, promoted the use of LoRa networks (LoRaWAN) for a long list of applications that he said can help make cities smart and better places to live in. Even though the LoRaWAN chips themselves are proprietary and protected…
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