DAS and LoRaWAN

redwirelessus
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 22:50:57 +0000

I wanted to very briefly add the latest : I was able to have a chat at Mobile World Congress Americas last month with, both, DAS manufacturers and LoRaWAN entities about ‘converging’ or testing LoRa GW’s and Sensors as RF Signal Sources for In Building DAS systems. We’re all of the opinion that we can’t see ‘why not’ it wouldn’t work. The most important part is that, as with any in building DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) the ‘head end’ or the ‘input unit’ sort of speak has to be able to ‘accept’ the frequency and technology (for example, there’s a card for 800 cellular CDMA, another for 700 cellular LTE, etc), so there would have to be a ‘card’ for (in the case of US) 902-928 MHz ‘LoRa’… no one, that we know of at this point, has that in the market. I’m currently having that discussion with at least 1 DAS mfr and 1 LoRa mfr to see if we can have a POC (Proof of Concept). This might take a while but FYI I’m on it and will continue to update accordingly.