LoRa® on-premise - at Home and in the Office documentation
Hardware and software requirements
To complete this lab, you will need the following hardware and software.
Hardware required for the gateway
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The LoRa® Corecell Gateway Reference Design for your region, for example:
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SX1302CSS915GW1, 915MHz for North America (Mouser, Digi-Key)
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SX1302CSS868GW1, 868MHz for Europe (Mouser)
Figure 1: LoRa Corecell Gateway Reference Design
Note
This lab uses the LoRa Corecell Gateway Reference Design from Semtech as the reference gateway. The LoRa Corecell Gateway Reference Design contains all the hardware needed to build a gateway. You can alternatively build your own kit by purchasing the following:
- One of the Raspberry Pi models listed on the ChirpStack Gateway OS Supported targets and Supported Shields page.
- One of the supported shields listed on the ChirpStack Gateway OS Supported Targets and Supported Shields page.
- Raspberry Pi Power Supply (EU, U.S.)
- Micro SD Card (16GB or larger; recommended minimum Speed Class 10) (EU, U.S.)
- USB Micro SD Card Reader/Writer (EU, U.S.)
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Sensors
The idea behind this lab is to use readily available, low-cost sensors that could be useful in the home.
Purchase the following devices for your region:
Warning
Be sure not to turn on or otherwise activate your end devices until after you’ve added them to the system through the ChirpStack gateway admin web app. Connecting the battery on these devices will cause them to try and retry joining and can drain the battery. In other words, for now, do not pull the tab on your device since this will connect the battery.
Software
The only software you’ll need for this lab is balenaEtcher, used to flash the ChirpStack OS image onto the Micro SD Card.
In the next section, you will learn how to install and configure the ChirpStack gateway software on the Raspberry Pi.