New LoraWAN Project - Need Advise before starting

descartes
Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:05:17 +0000

The official answer is LoRaWAN is not suitable for safety critical applications - it shares the airwaves with others, so the signal might not get through in a timely fashion, you need reliable internet, the gateway sends the messages to an data centre, is processed and then sent on to your server that will then process the message to send out an SMS.

It’s brilliant at knowing what the temperature is or how full a water tank might be and sending that info once an hour for the next five years. If a few data points get lost, no big deal.

That said, there are soooo many ways to achieve your end goal but there’s a bit more detail needed. Thirty acres is a size, but the shape and terrain make a difference! How far apart are the buildings and can you see the outdoor buildings (!) from the lodge? Perhaps provide a link to the site?

If you only need to get a signal from the two buildings to the lodge and you have WiFi covering the site, no need for anything more complicated.

You could just have a SMS sender at each location, so the message doesn’t have to be relayed at all.

But if you do want to monitor other stuff, like how full trash cans are, if the water supply is OK, temperatures, gates left open, and so forth, then LW becomes more viable.