A quick overview of WLPC EU 2024 It was wonderful to reconnect with friends and colleagues once again in the historical capital of Bohemia during the 10th Anniversary of WLPC EU in Prague, October 23-25, 2024. This year was 10% larger than the previous year with 25% of attendees registering for a boot camp. Additionally, 25%…
Wireless IoT Presentation at Wi-Co Montreal On August 2024, I spoke about wireless IoT technologies focusing on Wi-Fi HaLow at the 2024 Wi-Co event in Montréal. Comparison IoT technologies, including BLE, Zigbee, and LoRaWAN were briefly described and then HaLow was showcased. The talk was not recorded, but you can download the slide deck from the Wi-Co presentation here or…
WLPC EU 2023 Prague Conference Recap Before the main WLPC conference officially starts, boot camps run for 3 days; they are a different animal. What would typically be a 4-day course is packed into 3 days of learning. It really is drinking from the firehose. The following boot camps ran in 2023 with an interesting…
Cisco Live 2023 Session List Here is a list of sessions that I am planning to sit on or have favourited to watch the recording (because there just isn’t enough time to get to every session). Session Bias Notice This is a self-confession that I am most excited about mobility, IoT, and Private 5G, complemented…
Cisco expands LoRaWAN Portfolio With the Cisco Mining Summit 2023 and CiscoLive Amsterdam 2023 recently wrapping up, there have been some exciting announcements from Cisco in the Industrial IoT space. This blog focuses on the new LoRaWAN tech from Cisco. What is LoRaWAN? LoRaWAN is a wireless protocol for IoT and Industrial IoT (IIoT) devices. If you weren’t…
On the heels of WLPC Phoenix 2023 First, a few initial thoughts before jumping into sessions’ sound bites… WLPC 2023 introduced 20-min talks, giving speakers more time to go deeper into their topic and share more data. As all talks were voted on by the community, there was already a hunger to hear more about these…
LoRaWAN overview LoRa (short for Long Range) is a modulation technique that is used in LoRaWAN networks for low-power, long-range wireless communications on the sub-1GHz band. LoRaWAN is a media access control (MAC) protocol for wide area networks (WANs) that uses low-power, long-range wireless communications to connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It is based…
LoRaWAN Mapper – using Helium Console This blog is part 4 of a 4-part series on LoRaWAN field mappers. For related information checkout the following posts: LoRaWAN Mapper Overview LoRaWAN Mapper – RAK10701-H LoRaWAN Mapper – using WisToolBox (iOS) LoRaWAN Mapper – using Helium Console Overview This blog explains how to configure the Helium console to…
LoRaWAN Mapper – using WisToolBox (iOS) This blog is part 3 of a 4-part series on LoRaWAN field mappers. For related information checkout the following posts: LoRaWAN Mapper Overview LoRaWAN Mapper – RAK10701-H LoRaWAN Mapper – using WisToolBox (iOS) LoRaWAN Mapper – using Helium Console Configuring RAL10701-P using WisToolBox WisToolBox is a software tool for configuration…
LoRaWAN Mapper – RAKWireless RAK10701-H This blog is part 2 of a 4-part series on LoRaWAN field mappers. For related information checkout the following posts: LoRaWAN Mapper Overview LoRaWAN Mapper – RAK10701-H LoRaWAN Mapper – using WisToolBox (iOS) LoRaWAN Mapper – using Helium Console This blog expands on the setup process for the RAK10701-H. For more information…
