LoRa Basics™ MAC and LoRa Basics™ Station are tools designed for developers creating LoRaWAN®-based solutions. LoRa Basics MAC is a portable implementation of the LoRa Alliance® LoRaWAN specification in the C programming language. LoRa Basics MAC supports multiple regions, selectable at compile and/or run-time, and supports Class A, Class B and Class C devices. LoRa Basics Station is an implementation of a LoRa® packet forwarder, which can be remotely managed by a Configuration and Update Server (CUPS) at regular intervals to obtain configuration, system and firmware updates.

At the Annual Members Meeting of the LoRa Alliance® in Berlin, Germany, Semtech’s David Hoover demonstrated a closed-loop control system, showing just one of the possibilities of how it can be used, in this case, for the water utility sector.