Communication Infrastructure

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Pod Part

Lora E4 Module in MCU Mode

Sensors are connected via I2C/SPI/GPIO

Software reads sensor data and sends it via Lora to Shore (P2P or via Helium Gateway)

Shore Part

ESP32

Connected via Wifi to 4G Router

Connected to Lora Modem via TX/RX Pins

Software routes messages from Lora to Internet via MQTT to Backend

Seeed Lora E4 Module in Serial-Mode

Connected to TX/RX of ESP32

4G Router for Internet Connection

Wifi

Backend

Raspberry Pi (or Linux Server in the Cloud) running InfluxDB, Grafana, Telegraf, Mosquitto

Future

Lora 433Mhz to Lora Satellite Uplink and/or S-Band Uplink (lacuna.space)

Research

Lora in Indonesia uses the AS923-25 Frequency