Sebastien Lebreton, Principal Applications Engineer at Semtech, has been building and testing devices  featuring LoRa® chips for eight years. An expert in the field, he has been working with wireless technologies since 2001, and has regularly been called upon to teach engineers across the LoRa developer ecosystem how to be successful in this arena.

Over the years, I have explained how to test devices with LoRa® chipsets a dozen times or more during seminars, workshops and in informal meetings with customers. The need to write and publish these recommendations for the benefit of the industry has become more than apparent. So, sit back, enjoy a cup of coffee and read on.

To ensure that a LoRaWAN®-based device can be uniquely and securely identified on a network, it needs a unique ID and other security key material. Using a device’s unique, built-in identifier and deriving the appropriate key material is called provisioning the device. In this article, we’ll take a look at the best practices for provisioning your devices.