Udemy LoRa and LoRaWAN® for the Internet of Things

Create IoT solutions with LoRaWAN®. From the device to the IoT dashboard.

Description​

Savoie Mont-Blanc university instructors are part of the LoRa Alliance as institutional members.
/!\ ONLY THE FIRST 4 CHAPTERS ARE ONLINE. SEE THE ROADMAP BELOW.
Chapter 1 - Embedded systems and IoT

• The properties of an embedded system in the IoT world.
• How the LoRa protocol can solve range and power issues?

Chapter 2 - Radio transmission and propagation

• You will learn the principles of wireless communication.
• Definition of : RSSI, Sensitivity, Signal to noise ratio, dB, dBm, link budget.

Chapter 3 - LoRa modulation

• Theory about the fundamentals of LoRa modulation.
• What bit rate we can expect depending on the configuration of the transceiver?

Chapter 4 - The LoRaWAN® protocol

• LoRa vs LoRaWAN vs LoRa Alliance.
• Devices, Gateways and Network Servers and Application Servers.
• Basics about LoRaWAN security.
• LoRaWAN Device classes.
• ABP and OTAA activation modes.
• Adaptive Data Rate (ADR)

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End of the course (June 2022). Roadmap for the next chapters:

Chapter 5 - LoRaWAN networks and LoRaWAN servers (1st july 2022)

• Private network
• Public network
• Hybrid network
• Community network

Chapter 6 - The LoRa / LoRaWAN frame (15 july 2022)

• LoRa PHY Layer
• LoRa MAC Layer
• Application Layer

Chapter 7 - Exporting data from the LoRaWAN Server (1st september 2022)

• HTTP GET uplink and downlink
• HTTP POST uplink and downlink
• MQTT uplink and downlink

Chapter 8 - Setting up your own LoRaWAN Server (15th septembre 2022)

• How to build a private LoRaWAN server.
• Chirpstack
• The Things Stack (TTS) open source.

Chapter 9 - Setting up your own IoT Platform (1st october 2022)

• How to build an IoT Platform.
• You will use only open-source and free services.
• Create your dashboard.

Who this course is for:​

• Beginner engineers interested in LoRaWAN