I am trying to figure out which gateway is
- best suited to prototype/develop a solution
- use in production scenario
The project will be a private LoRaWAN network that will not be connected to the internet.
Initially there will be a single gateway, though depending on the maximum number of nodes that can be supported this may change.
After the gateway there will be a Raspberry Pi which will receive the messages, decode and store the data in a database, it will also be running an application to display the interpreted data - the nodes a basically fairly advanced data loggers built using T-Beam devices (ESP32) which had a LoRa module on board.
Potentially the Raspberry Pi could be the gateway as well as post processing unit, or a separate Raspberry Pi could be a dedicated gateway using a HAT, or the gateway could be a self contained off the shelf unit.
The frequency will be 433 range.
I’m told by Rak (via a 3rd party reseller - because Rak support have never responded to me) that this is possible, but when I investigated the suggested items (while awaiting further responses from them) found it was a 868 unit with no mention of a 433 option.
I get the impression the 7268V2 is perhaps the less configurable options for what I’m looking to do, but I have seen a guide where it was setup using a local ChirpStack network server - which whilst I don’t think (maybe wrong) I need at this point, I guess I would need later if a second gateway is added for de-duplication.
This scenario would be a on site of approx 0.5Km diameter.
Any information and guidance anyone can provide would be gratefully received as the one thing I have discovered is most things 433 related from Rak seem to have a 2 week lead time and I need to get going on this.