This week Semtech is announcing 2.4 Ghz LoRa. They will be coming with more public new soon. But it looks very interesting. [image][image][image] What are your thoughts about this? And how would this fit best in The Things Network?

I guess the most interesting part is BLE PHY layer compatibility Other than that, I’d be interested in more information about data rates/limitations, and some performance comparison with pure BLE when it comes to range & bandwidth :slight_smile:

Does this collide with typical WiFi stuff going on on 2.4GHz? One of the good things of LoRaWAN was/is that it not uses the totally overcrowded 2.4GHz frequency, we have already enough things trying to grab airtime on 2.4GHz.

that’s the technical part, but we also used that argument to emphasize why LoRaWAN was that cool and useful. We may need to think about a good way to explain this keeping in mind what we said so far. edit: i didn’t had time to google in detail, but does this allow OTA firmware updates?

[image] wienkegiezeman: What are your thoughts about this? And how would this fit best in The Things Network? Since you asked :wink: my thoughts on this are that TTN should continue their plans of supporting routing Bluetooth LE - remember Bluetooth 5 is already reaching 2Km+ as is also very …

Quite surprised it is not actual vaporware but product with complete specifications and detailed documentation. I’m curious about range with LoRa modulation although not expecting longer range than in sub GHz band. Due to higher frequency there could be potentialy shorter time on air resulting in e…

“The new 2.4 GHz wireless RF solution enables point-to-point wireless links that can support custom protocols with configurable data rates up to 2 Mbps.” https://www.semtech.com/wireless-rf/24ghz-wireless-rf-solution

That’s FSK, for LoRa 2.4Ghz it’s SF 5: 202 kb/s SF 6: 122 kb/s SF 7: 71 kb/s SF 12: 0.476 kb/s

2.4 should mean cheaper, less obtrusive antennas right? That’s a win for consumer appliances. I assume we’ll lose a few dB in link budget going with the higher frequency, plus some losses in non-LOS applications. And will it be safe from WiFi like BLE, or susceptible like ZigBee?

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wienkegiezeman March 15, 2017, 6:36am 2

And the datasheet is here:

http://www.semtech.com/apps/product.php?pn=sx1280