Lacuna Space Shoots for the Stars with LoRaWAN®

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We Have Liftoff: Putting a LoRa-based Gateway into Orbit

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A single LoRa-based gateway provides deep indoor connectivity in underground or city environments, and connectivity to LoRa-enabled end nodes from up to 30 miles away in rural environments.
In places such as these, LoRaWAN-based networking and LoRa-enabled end nodes provide the quickest to deploy and most cost-efficient option for IoT connectivity, enabling smarter solutions that could not otherwise exist.

At January’s The Things Conference in Amsterdam, Lacuna announced the formation of a LoRa-based space network, a non-profit foundation through which Lacuna Space will enable other satellite operators to fly its LoRa-enabled satellite gateways, and leverage each other’s satellite infrastructure to provide global coverage. All messages are encrypted and messages detected by one satellite, but intended for another operator are seamlessly relayed. According to Lacuna, the system works “a bit like roaming on mobile phones, but the gateways roam rather than the users.”

That is, until now, thanks to the work of Lacuna Space, an innovative provider of IoT solutions and small satellite technology that recently concluded the first phase of testing in its plan to provide LoRaWAN-based coverage to sensors anywhere on Earth via satellite.
Lacuna Space, located in the United Kingdom, is a provider of connectivity solutions enabling IoT solution providers with simple and reliable data connections to sensors and mobile equipment.
Lacuna’s goal is to enable seamless global coverage without the complexity, cost and power requirements of roaming across different terrestrial networks.
Leveraging the low power characteristics of LoRaWAN, Lacuna enables customers to connect sensors that communicate for up to five years on a single battery.
At January’s The Things Conference in Amsterdam, Lacuna announced the formation of a LoRa-based space network, a non-profit foundation through which Lacuna Space will enable other satellite operators to fly its LoRa-enabled satellite gateways, and leverage each other’s satellite infrastructure to provide global coverage.
Over the last two years, Lacuna has been collaborating with Semtech to help reach its goal of supplying LoRaWAN-based connectivity to all corners of the globe.
Currently, Lacuna’s LoRa-based space gateways sit aboard 6U CubeSat satellites, a couple of which are provided by Nano Avionics.
According to Thomas Telkamp, Lacuna CTO, test sensors deployed in countries ranging from South Africa, the Netherlands, U.K., Slovenia, U.S

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