Can LoRa end points communicate directly?
Or is a gateway/network server always required?
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2I think the distinction you are looking for is LoRa vs LoRaWAN – hardillb Jul 12 '19 at 10:18
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Care to post an answer, with explanation? Or even just a URL to the explanation? Thanks :-) – Mawg says reinstate Monica Jul 12 '19 at 11:29
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Hmmm, I think that you are saying that LoRaWAN can communicate directly, but plain LoRa needs the gateway, etc. Would that be correct? – Mawg says reinstate Monica Jul 12 '19 at 11:30
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No, wrong way round – hardillb Jul 12 '19 at 11:35
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa – MatsK Jul 15 '19 at 17:50
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Yes, LoRa can do point to point communication. There are many examples of people using LoRa between 2 devices for low power, low bandwidth notifications between devices e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV_VumvI-0A
The hub/spoke topology is normally associated with the LoRaWAN implementations (e.g. The Things Network) used for building wide area support for devices to communicate with a cloud backend.
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