Savoie Mont-Blanc university instructors are part of the LoRa Alliance as institutional members.
Chapter 1 - Embedded systems and IoT
The properties of an embedded system in the IoT world.
How the LoRa protocol can solve range and power issues?
Chapter 2 - Radio transmission and propagation
You will learn the principles of wireless communication.
Definition of : RSSI, Sensitivity, Signal to noise ratio, dB, dBm, link budget.
Chapter 3 - LoRa modulation
Theory about the fundamentals of LoRa modulation.
What bit rate we can expect depending on the configuration of the transceiver?
Chapter 4 - The LoRaWAN® protocol
LoRa vs LoRaWAN vs LoRa Alliance.
Devices, Gateways and Network Servers and Application Servers.
Basics about LoRaWAN security.
LoRaWAN Device classes.
ABP and OTAA activation modes.
Adaptive Data Rate (ADR)
Chapter 5 - LoRaWAN networks and LoRaWAN servers
Private network
Public network
Hybrid network
Community network
Chapter 6 - The LoRa / LoRaWAN frame
LoRa PHY Layer
LoRa MAC Layer
Application Layer
Chapter 7 - Exporting data from the LoRaWAN Server
HTTP GET uplink and downlink
HTTP POST uplink and downlink
MQTT uplink and downlink
Payload Decoder and Encoder
Chapter 8 - Setting up your own LoRaWAN Server
How to build a private LoRaWAN server.
Chirpstack
The Things Stack (TTS) open source.
Chapter 9 - Setting up your own IoT Platform
How to build an IoT Platform.
You will use only open-source and free services.
Create your dashboard.