#404 How to Build or Migrate Sensors and Gateways on TTN LoRaWAN V3

January 13, 2025 Andreas Spiess

LoRa and LoRaWAN are remarkable technologies, they have a long-range and low power consumption and therefore are ideal for our sensor projects. Today I will show you how to build a LoRaWAN sensor and connect it to the open The Things Network in the new version 3. I will also show how you can migrate your infrastructure if you are already a user of the V2 network, where the deadline is this December. In the end, you even will get a surprise. A lot of exciting stuff!
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00:00 Intro
01:32 LoRa and LoRaWAn overview
03:30 Sensors
06:36 Migrate V2 sensors
07:00 Avoid frustrations with sensors
09:25 How to build a modern V3 sensor and integrate it into Node-Red
16:02 Gateways
19:51 What do you have to remember?

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1284p low power LoRa board: https://www.tindie.com/products/iotdevices/low-power-atmega1284p-based-arduino-lora-node/
Heltec 2 channel Gateway: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_ACKiCL
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Mailbox notifier Sketch: https://github.com/SensorsIot/MailboxNotifier/tree/main/MailboxNotifier1284P
TTN Coverage: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/map
Helium Coverage: https://explorer.helium.com/hotspots

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