We don’t have concrete plans for this yet. When we will build something like this in the future, we will likely do it like this:
- Devices are registered as “expirable”, but this can also be an “option” that you can switch off
- When these devices join the network (OTAA) they will receive the appropriate (MAC) settings that configure them to periodically send “keep-alive” messages
- Devices will be marked as “inactive” only after several months, we’re not talking about days or weeks
- Devices can mark themselves as “active” by sending a (join/uplink) message (in most cases you’d want to know your device is still working every few months anyway)
- The application owner will receive a notification before “inactive” devices are cleaned up, allowing them to manually mark the device as “active”