Mass-scale LoRaWAN® IoT across smart facilities, smart metering, and asset tracking with The Things Stack
LoRaWAN is a long-range, low power and wide-area communication technology that allows sending data around wide-area networks. This enables the usage of LoRaWAN in a variety of use cases, from cattle tracking to monitoring conveyor belts. With flexible deployment options and multi-region support, The Things Stack fulfills global use cases. Learn how to scale with LoRaWAN and IoT across the smart facilities, smart metering, and asset tracking.
Smart Buildings
A smart building use case can require as little as one LoRa gateway for multiple applications. Most common smart facility solutions include temperature, humidity, CO2, movement and occupancy sensors. The Device Repository for LoRaWAN allows you to find a variety of devices across different categories, which makes it easy to find a substitute for a missing device brand. Device Repository is also integrated with The Things Stack, which structures devices connected to your application in a harmonized way. This means that the application and your ERP system treat different sensors in the same way, allowing you to be flexible during the component shortage, and more.
The Things Stack Cloud is preferred for smart facility applications because it is cost-effective and easily deployed. The Things Stack is easily integrated with the existing company IT infrastructure. The Cloud deployment allows you to operate a large number of sensors, with easy installation through mass import. The Things Stack supports open standards through CLI scripting and an API.
- Tools for managing devices at scale: operating a large number of buildings require a large number of sensors to be deployed. The Things Stack supports large-scale onboarding of devices by allowing them to import a batch of end devices into The Things Stack using Console or CLI efficiently.
- Integration with ERP and data platforms: Integrate your sensor data and The Things Stack through webhooks or APIs to feed the data into many different systems, for example, the existing building management systems.
- Open gateway standards: Allow the gateways running on generic software to talk through an open standard with a network server. This will make sure that there is no lock-in between the gateway and the network server.
Smart Metering
Smart metering applications require several well-placed gateways in a city or area. In most cases, a large number of smart meters need to be deployed. Mainly, smart meters are used for utilities such as water, electricity, and gas.
Device Repository showcases a variety of smart meters (retrofit and fully integrated) that help you to build your smart metering applications.
The Things Stack Cloud features facilitate smart metering network operations:
- Secure and private implementation: Security is key for smart metering applications. The Things Stack offers secure key storage, device provisioning, and a data server entity that makes sure the data that is being routed stays within the country or region where the smart meters are installed.
- Keyless provisioning with Join Server: separates key storage from the data routing by storing root keys in a secure and trusted place, The Things Join Server.
- Packet broker: Securely exchange data between different LoRaWAN networks.
Asset tracking
LoRaWAN makes it easy and cost-effective to track highly valued assets in logistics. It is required that gateways are installed at different points (E.g. port, distribution center, retail store) in a supply chain to allow sensors to send their location data to the LoRaWAN network.
Device Repository features trackers fully supported by The Things Stack depending on your needs. It includes trackers from GPS- up to LR1110 chip-enabled.
The Things Stack Cloud allows customers to manage multi-continent logistic applications by providing global LoRaWAN coverage:
- Peering through Packet Broker: Enabling peering utilizes other LoRaWAN networks for global coverage. Asset trackers can access other network services even if they are out of their normal coverage area.
- Elaborate audit and infrastructure logs: Comply with any service level or any legislation that you are committed to with regard to tracking your assets.
Watch the video of Wienke Giezeman, CEO and co-founder of The Things Industries explaining mass-scale LoRaWAN IoT across four verticals with The Things Stack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcJkMPNBIus
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