LoRa is a wireless communication technology developed to create the low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) required for machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
Key features of LoRa technology:
- Long range: >15 km / 9 mi range
- Low-power: 5-10 year expected battery lifetime
- Low-cost: from end-node sensor cost to upfront infrastructure investment
- Secure: with embedded end-to-end AES-128 encryption of data
- Geolocation: enables indoor/outdoor tracking without GPS
LoRaWAN™ is a global LPWAN specification created by the LoRa Alliance™ to drive a single standard for seamless interoperability across the industry. LoRa technology is ideally suited for the applications:
- Smart Cities
- Smart Home and Building
- Smart Environment
- Smart Metering
- Smart Agriculture
- Smart Industrial
- Retail and Logistics
As a board member and sponsor of the LoRa Alliance and strong player on the LPWAN market,ST offers several affordable and easy-to-use sets of hardware tools dedicated to the evaluation and development of LoRa™ solutions.
Combined with the LoRaWAN™ software expansion package for STM32Cube (I-CUBE-LRWAN) which includes a set of libraries and application examples, these hardware tools are the quickest way to build LoRaWAN end-node devices:
- The P-NUCLEO-LRWAN2 pack for 868, 915 and 923 MHz RF bands comes with a gateway and an end-node. The gateway combines an STM32F7 Nucleo board and an ARDUINO®-compatible shield with a Semtech® SX1301 transceiver. The LoRaWAN® end-node features an STM32L073 Nucleo board and an STM32L052-powered USI module, along with ST’s sensors including our LSM303AGR MEMS accelerometer/gyroscope, LIS3MDL magnetometer and LPS22HB pressure sensor, and ST's HTS221 temperature and humidity sensor.
- The P-NUCLEO-LRWAN3 pack for 433 and 470 MHz RF bands contains a gateway and an end-node. The gateway includes an STM32F7 Nucleo board which controls an ARDUINO®-compatible shield with an embedded Semtech® SX1301 transceiver. The LoRaWAN® end-node features an STM32L073 Nucleo board and an STM32L071-powered RisingHF module on an ARDUINO®-compatible shield, along with several motion and environmental sensors including the LSM6DS3 accelerometer, ST's LPS22HB pressure sensor, and our HTS221 temperature and humidity sensor.
- Low-power wireless Nucleo pack (P-NUCLEO-LRWAN1) including STM32 Nucleo-64 development board and LoRa™ expansion board with high-performance SX1272 FSK/OOK RF transceiver
- STM32 Discovery kit for LoRa™ and other LPWAN protocols (B-L072Z-LRWAN1) with an all-in-one open LoRa™ module powered by an ultra-low-power STM32L072 32-bit microcontroller and an SX1276 RF transceiver
- STM32 LoRa™ expansion board for the STM32 Nucleo (I-NUCLEO-LRWAN1) featuring a low-cost USI® LPWAN module supporting LoRa™ technology
Featured Videos
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In this video Michael Andre, CEO of WIZZILAB presents their products to us, a triple stack solution for LPWAN technologies, including Sigfox, LoraWan and the Dash7 alliance which leverages many products from STMicroelectronics.
The STM32 Nucleo pack for LoRa™ technology and high-performance FSK/OOK RF transceiver modem (P-NUCLEO-LRWAN1) is a development tool to learn and develop solutions based on LoRa™ and/or FSK/OOK technologies.
- P-NUCLEO-LRWAN2 STM32 Nucleo pack LoRa™ HF band sensor and gateway
- STEVAL-STRKT01 LoRa® IoT tracker
- I-NUCLEO-LRWAN1 USI® STM32™ Nucleo expansion board for LoRa™
- B-L072Z-LRWAN1 STM32L0 Discovery kit LoRa, Sigfox, low-power wireless
- P-NUCLEO-LRWAN3 STM32 Nucleo pack LoRa™ LF band sensor and gateway
