I am working with LoRaWAN since a couple of year, but now I have to solve an issue with my new flat. I have electric heater and I would like to monitor and control the header (control the heat, switch it on/off).
I strongly believe I can use LoRaWAN to send the value of the heater to a gateway but my heaters will not communicate between itself as would do Z-wave and Zigbee.
I also believe that a gateway could not “centrilized” the heaters setting and send it to the devises as would do a JeeDom Smart Box
But as I really like LoRaWAN and I already spend a lot with it, I would like to know if someone as an exeprience about Automation (in french we say domotique) and how I could use LoRaWAN to monitor and control my heaters and my lights, and may be later the shutters of a house. Or how can I use LoRaWAN with JeedDom or OpenHab?
I heard, a development is on the way to have LoRaWAN devises working peer to peer. I am using Arduino LMIC library with SAMD32 micro-controller based on Adafruit products.
Would have a solution around it, or am I a dreamer ?
Hello
are you speaking about a previous post? I postponed that task until the TTN conference 2020. Unfortunately, I could not make it working and I am hoping to follow a workshop or a conference about the reapter. Do you know if a topic about repeater will be discussed at TTN conference?
(Repeater remind my main priority for spring 2020).
You’d have to have a fairly large flat, and not have, say WiFi coverage in parts of it, before LoRaWAN (or even some other non-LoRaWAN usage of LoRa) made sense in it.
Additionally LoRaWAN is fundamentally not a peer-to-peer architecture.
That said it doesn’t really make obvious sense why heaters should communicate with one another, rather, you would have a central controller communicate with both.
In the context of LoRaWAN, that central controller would be in communication with the LoRaWAN network server.
Additionally, to use LoRaWAN for control you’d either occur a latency compared to your uplink interval, or need to have a class C setup, which is not yet available on TTN.
I don’t see really why they would have to communicate between them.
I have integrated Lora in OpenMQTTGateway to cover use case that require long range, and to enable an integration with home automation controllers like OpenHAB, Jeedom or Home Assistant through MQTT. But I’m not sure to use Lora for a flat is relevant.
At first I was more seeing such solution for people with big gardens.
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If you know somethings that would be nice. Apparently, there is no program available yet.