I have The Things Outdoor Gateway (TTOG) and would like to connect it to the internet through a cellular connection (sim card) rather than ethernet.
I’m planning to connect around 9 LoRa end devices (temperature, humidity and other sensors) to the gateway in downtown Toronto.
However, I was wondering if there are considerations I need to account for when it comes to the provider or the internet connection through a sim card? If anyone lives in Canada and can recommend some local providers for IoT sim cards, that would be appreciated!
I would look to use operator(s) with lowest network latency at the point where you plan to deploy the GW. Plans are often much of a muchness wrt cost in markets where there is some competition and whilst you might save a few $cents or even a $ or two by vendor selection if the cheapest has poor latency this can show up as missed packets and variable performance causing more maintenance/debug issues than the saving is worth and if truely unreliable may even cost you client connections! Ask local MNO network users for their experience or run own tests at site before selecting is my recomendation or use a network that you know from experience has generally good (low) latancy.
These guys offer a fixed price 10 yr sim a number of folk use them https://1nce.com/en/coverage/
Also https://www.hologram.io/ they have a client app Spacebridge which can securely logon remotely to your Gateways without putting your own VPN in place. They are a bit more expensive than others.
Ask local MNO network users for their experience or run own tests at site before selecting is my recomendation or use a network that you know from experience has generally good (low) latancy.