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Collos Sunset, LoRa Cloud Sunrise
Firstly, thank you for using Collos, the location service preview for LoRaWAN.
Over the past year and a half we have been excited to see rapid growth and strong demand for our easy to consume geolocation service for LoRaWAN devices. The time has now come to take the next step and roll the location service into a new suite of cloud APIs which ease the development of LoRaWAN based solutions. This new suite of services includes many features to support Semtech’s LoRaWAN device modem as well as new geolocation services. The geolocation service is offered alongside a highly secure join service and some sophisticated modem application services that open up LoRaWAN to a new breed of fully managed, secured carrier class devices.
https://www.loracloud.com/
One-step Migration
If you are using the Collos V2 API endpoints then you will find that, for almost everyone, you can migrate over to the new service by simply signing up on the new portal at https://www.loracloud.com/ getting your new security token and switching the URL to the new service. Full documentation can be found here: https://www.loracloud.com/documentation/geolocation
Why change?
The adoption of the preview service has helped us to shape the definition of the ongoing services. The new services will be able to address several of the shortcomings of the Collos preview. Collos was architected to be entirely hosted. As such, this suits a lot of applications, however, as LoRaWAN pushes into every corner of low-power wide area network IoT, we need solutions that are easy to deploy in a host of different ways. Collos does not have the flexibility for such a range of deployment options, whereas the LoRaCloud services have been architected for this kind of flexibility from the get-go.
LoRa Cloud services come with other performance benefits for geolocation. While the Collos algorithms have not been updated since the end of 2018, the LoRa Cloud algorithms are regularly updated. We have a new V3 geolocation format that will allow us to offer simple API-based tracking of devices- while still being completely stateless and anonymous.
All of the LoRa Cloud services have free to use options that are limited in capacity but not time. Therefore, trials and experiments are free from costs without time limits and support instant sign-up. Also, since the LoRa Cloud services will all have options for commercial service levels, we can then start to offer service level agreements (SLA) to back them up. As you might expect, the free services come without SLA.
What next?
Collos will cease to accept new users, however the service will remain operational until the end of 2019 to allow plenty of time for users to migrate to the new service.
Best regards,
Collos team
discussion topic
Being pick-up more widely e.g. Yahoo eher:
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/reliability-concerns-raised-over-pi-171801316.html
Am I too suspitious about fact this is popping up as an issue on a 2 year old platform (newer Pi-Top 4 just out as referenced in article) just as a new kid on the block is hitting the news pages:
e g. https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/a-cutiepi-for-christmas-2019-08/
