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Welcome JP Norair of Haystack Technologies!
- Chris knows JP from the Consulting Forum. Want to join us? Apply here
- LoRa
- Chirp Spread Spectrum
- LoRaWAN
- The standard initially came from IBM
- Formed the LoRa alliance
- Comcast strategy shifting
- Sigfox was a competitor
- Senet
- Campus deployments
- Moving data on LoRaWAN
- Was probably meant for meter reading
- Haystack
- DASH7
- Savi
- Asset tracking on a global scale
- Exposed to technology standardization
- iso18000-7
- People who are contacting are using LoRaWAN and it hasn’t worked
- QOS means there are packets that are received correctly
- LPWAN is not that mature
- Borrowing from space based telemetry
- Claude Shannon – Information theory
- There is built in error correction in the LoRa hardware
- Matt Knight episode from ToorCamp
- Alphabet soup of standards
- One of them specifies a convolutional code
- Soft decision
- Proprietary stuff sweetens the deal
- LDPC error correction
- Startups are willing to take a risk
- Bigger companies are worried about failing
- Working with startups
- Larger businesses are willing to pay for time and materials
- Payment on milestones
- Selling hardware allows you to put cost into it
- Mobile vs fixed
- Link budget
- ITU region 2
- RSSI
- Fresnel zone
- SolPad
- Have to be ready to bounce between full time and consulting
- Not a solar company
- Battery backed storage and conversion solutions
- John from Cree
- Doing GaN inverters
- Smaller inductors
- Roof mounted inverters and batteries
- Shahriar talking RF
- Trying to broaden expertise
- Dash7 over a wire
- RS485
- Sometimes wireless feels like it’s actually more reliable than something like RS485
- JP has a person site called Indigresso
- Using MATLAB to simulate antennas
- Johanson antennas
- Making a different frequency antenna by adding extra wire
- Start with a higher freq chip antenna and modify it downward
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