Meanwhile I’ve set up a Raspberry Pi single channel gateway and an ESP8266 node for some testing, both using an RFM95W LoRa transceiver. I’ve mainly done this for the software side of things, but so far the range is horrible, even on SF12. (Don’t be fooled by the range on the TTN gateway map, to which it was automatically added.)
If anyone else has done something similar, let me know!
As for the municipality: soon now we’ll have a private gateway (probably Libelium Plug & Sense, so watch for those sensors around town) active on the roof of the 5 stories Zijlvest/Raakspoort city offices. There will be cabling in place for more gateways, maybe something for TTN?
