Savoie Mont-Blanc university instructors are part of the LoRa Alliance as institutional members.

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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 OTAAactivation modes.

• Adaptive Data Rate (ADR)

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

Chapter 5 - LoRaWAN networks and LoRaWAN servers

• Private network

• Public network

• Hybrid network

• Community network

Chapter 6 - The LoRa / LoRaWAN frame

• LoRa PHY Layer

• LoRaMAC Layer

• Application Layer

Chapter 7 - Exporting data from the LoRaWAN Server

• HTTP GET uplink and downlink

• HTTP POST uplink and downlink

• MQTT uplink and downlink

Chapter 8 - Setting up your own LoRaWAN Server

• How to build a private LoRaWAN server.

• Chirpstack

• The Things Stack (TTS) open source.

Chapter 9 - Setting up your own IoT Platform

• How to build an IoT Platform.

• You will use only open-source and free services.

• Create your dashboard.