Meeting 2: SmartRural Co-op

LoRa is famed for its long range, so it's a great fit for rural applications. But building a LoRaWAN network out in the sticks isn't trivial, with off-grid installations exposed to the weather (and cows).

Find out more about the challenges, and benefits, of rural LoRaWAN from SmartRural at our second meeting.

Thanks to sponsors the University of Edinburgh, we're back at Argyle House on Wednesday 15th.

Please RSVP here on meetup.com so we can get an idea of numbers!

Approximate Schedule:
18:00 Meeting opens at Argyle House
Informal chat over pizza and drinks while we get set up. There'll be some LoRaWAN devices from https://connectedthings.store around to play with

18:45 Al Bennett - Sensational Systems
Hello and brief waffle, news and announcements

19:00 Paul Lindop and Tim Everitt - SmartRural Co-op
What are the "Agriculture 4.0" drivers that are behind this and where is it going?
How are we doing LoRaWAN coverage engineering?
What is the base mechanical/electrical infrastructure that we are having to build as none exists?

19:40 (ish) Everyone nerds out about LoRa and IoT, time to chat to the speakers and attendees further and more time to play about with LoRa kit. Bring your LoRaWAN projects to demo!

20:45 Close, with possible migration to nearby pub for further chat

About the Speakers and Presentation:
Paul and Tim are the drivers behind SmartRural, a co-op funded by SAOS (http://www.saos.coop/). You can read more at https://www.smartrural.coop

Sponsors
The Edinburgh University is kindly sponsoring the venue at its offices at Argyle House. This is the base of the IoT service, and is also a test environment, various research projects are carried out here and IoT devices are deployed to test in a real working environment. Ask Simon and Mark for more info!

Sensational Systems Limited (https://sensational.systems) is small bunch of engineers and developers, working on hardware and software projects for a variety of customers and applications. Outdoor devices, industrial monitoring in explosive atmospheres, ask Al Bennett for more! We also run https://connectedthings.store an Edinburgh-based LoRaWAN superstore.