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#443 – An Interview with JP Norair

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 01:20:28
Publish Date: 2019-05-19 18:05:27
Description:

Welcome JP Norair of Haystack Technologies!

  • Chris knows JP from the Consulting Forum. Want to join us? Apply here
    • 0h 0m 40s
  • LoRa
    • 0h 1m 49s
  • Chirp Spread Spectrum
    • 0h 1m 53s
  • LoRaWAN
    • 0h 3m 16s
  • The standard initially came from IBM
    • 0h 3m 23s
  • Formed the LoRa alliance
    • 0h 3m 34s
  • Comcast strategy shifting
    • 0h 4m 9s
  • Sigfox was a competitor
    • 0h 4m 55s
  • Senet
    • 0h 6m 53s
  • Campus deployments
    • 0h 8m 44s
  • Moving data on LoRaWAN
    • 0h 9m 25s
  • Was probably meant for meter reading
    • 0h 10m 17s
  • Haystack
    • 0h 11m 30s
  • DASH7
    • 0h 11m 35s
  • Savi
    • 0h 11m 58s
  • Asset tracking on a global scale
    • 0h 12m 49s
  • Exposed to technology standardization
    • 0h 15m 43s
  • iso18000-7
    • 0h 15m 59s
  • People who are contacting are using LoRaWAN and it hasn’t worked
    • 0h 20m 11s
  • QOS means there are packets that are received correctly
    • 0h 21m 21s
  • LPWAN is not that mature
    • 0h 22m 58s
  • Borrowing from space based telemetry
    • 0h 23m 6s
  • Claude ShannonInformation theory
    • 0h 24m 15s
  • There is built in error correction in the LoRa hardware
    • 0h 27m 43s
  • Matt Knight episode from ToorCamp
    • 0h 27m 55s
  • Alphabet soup of standards
    • 0h 32m 26s
  • One of them specifies a convolutional code
    • 0h 32m 35s
  • Soft decision
    • 0h 33m 39s
  • Proprietary stuff sweetens the deal
    • 0h 35m 56s
  • LDPC error correction
    • 0h 36m 9s
  • Startups are willing to take a risk
    • 0h 40m 25s
  • Bigger companies are worried about failing
    • 0h 40m 33s
  • Working with startups
    • 0h 41m 52s
  • Larger businesses are willing to pay for time and materials
    • 0h 42m 1s
  • Payment on milestones
    • 0h 42m 34s
  • Selling hardware allows you to put cost into it
    • 0h 44m 3s
  • Mobile vs fixed
    • 0h 45m 22s
  • Link budget
    • 0h 49m 7s
  • ITU region 2
    • 0h 49m 50s
  • RSSI
    • 0h 51m 41s
  • Fresnel zone
    • 0h 55m 33s
  • SolPad
    • 0h 58m 33s
  • Have to be ready to bounce between full time and consulting
    • 0h 58m 50s
  • Not a solar company
    • 0h 59m 36s
  • Battery backed storage and conversion solutions
    • 0h 59m 40s
  • John from Cree
    • 1h 1m 24s
  • Doing GaN inverters
    • 1h 1m 28s
  • Smaller inductors
    • 1h 2m 9s
  • Roof mounted inverters and batteries
    • 1h 3m 15s
  • Shahriar talking RF
    • 1h 7m 13s
  • Trying to broaden expertise
    • 1h 7m 18s
  • Dash7 over a wire
    • 1h 9m 6s
  • RS485
    • 1h 9m 33s
  • Sometimes wireless feels like it’s actually more reliable than something like RS485
    • 1h 12m 8s
  • JP has a person site called Indigresso
    • 1h 19m 3s
  • Using MATLAB to simulate antennas
    • 1h 20m 28s
  • Johanson antennas
    • 1h 23m 1s
  • Making a different frequency antenna by adding extra wire
    • 1h 24m 11s
  • Start with a higher freq chip antenna and modify it downward
    • 1h 24m 25s
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