Build Awesome IoT with LoRa and LoRaWAN!

Bradley Lane of SEMTECH presented an awesome meeting last June on LoRaWAN™ - a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) specification intended for wireless battery-operated Things in a regional, national or global network. Our members loved the meeting and many requested to learn more about how can we use this new technology and particularly want to know what to do if we do not have a local LoRaWAN provider. Come join our February meetup as we review the elements of LoRa and LoRaWAN, the advantages (and disadvantages) of this protocol, and the tools we need to develop IoT solutions that use LoRa – including building your own LoRaWAN hub. Charles Lord of Blue Ridge Advanced Design in Asheville will come do a demo and show some examples of ways to build your own LoRa network for fun or commercial use.

Bio:
Charles J. Lord, PE is an embedded systems consultant and trainer with over 35 years' experience in system design and development in medical, military, and industrial applications. For the last twelve years, he has specialized in the integration of communication protocols into clients' products, including USB, Ethernet, and low-power wireless including ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, LoRa, and Thread. He has taught classes in these protocols for Freescale, Renesas, various universities and conferences including ESC and Arm TechCon. He has been a design partner with Freescale, Microchip, and Renesas. He also teaches webinars for various clients on IoT and embedded systems topics. He earned his BS in electrical engineering from N.C. State University in Raleigh, N.C. and provides training and consulting services through his company, Blue Ridge Advanced Design, in Asheville, N.C. He is a licensed professional engineer in NC and a senior member of the IEEE. In his volunteer work at the IEEE, he has served at many levels from local to regional to board committees. He is currently the chair of the IEEE NC Council and was general chair of IEEE SoutheastCon 1995 and 2017.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleslord/
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Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:
Pratt & Miller - Logical Advantage, http://logicaladvantage.com, is Charlotte’s premier provider for IoT consulting and projects. Pratt & Miller - Logical Advantage specializes on firmware, message brokers, cloud services, data acquisition and visualization for IoT. Special thanks to Logical Advantage for creating and facilitating the Charlotte IoT group.

SnapAV, http://www.snapav.com/, is an IoT company headquartered in Charlotte NC! They manufacture and distribute over a thousand products including some really cool home automation connected products! Special thanks to SnapAV for providing an awesome location for us to meet!

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