LoraWan connectivity

Hi, 

we have some experience using the IOT2050 as LoRa Gateway with mPCIe and Arduino. 

In both cases we were using The Things Network as LoRaWAN server. 

For the Arduino Shield we have published an example on github. But this solution is maybe a little bit "tinkered", since you require an Adapter Shield, which was self-built in our case. 
The used LoRa shield is the Concentrator Module iC880A. 

For the mPCIe solution we do not yet have an example, but will publish it in the next weeks / months. 
The mPCIe card Seeed WM1302 LoRaWAN Gateway Module(USB) - EU868 can be used. To get started you can follow the documentation here, starting at step 3. 

Hope this helps.

Best regards!

Hi, 

right, the Arduino solution is more complicated. 

I haven't done the mPCIe solution by myself, but a colleague did that and it is not really much effort or complicated. 

The LoRa Server is mandatory, it receives the data being sent by the sensors. The IOT2050 acts "only" as a LoRa gateway (collecting information from the sensors and sending those to the server using an internet connection). 

I am not familiar with available LoRa servers and if they can be used on-premise, but here you can have a good overview about existing solutions. 

Best regards!