Adobe Stock Semtech offers guidance for building an asset tracking system that works for pallets as well as animals and avocados.
Asset tracking that utilizes GPS works well, but it can be extremely expensive. The power consumption is excessive, with batteries requiring replacement every one-to-three months. An alternative is low-power, long-range systems that rely on satellite signals.
Collectively, the satellite navigation infrastructure is referred to as the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). In the case of battery-operated asset tracking, low power communications is essential. This is where LoRa devices come in. LoRa devices are a complement to GNSS because the coverage area for GNSS services is widespread.
Semtech strengthens LoRa Core chipset portfolio Semtech, a supplier of high performance analogue and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, has strengthened the LoRa Core portfolio with a new chipset.
The LoRa Core portfolio provides global LoRaWAN network coverage and is targeted at several vertical industries including asset tracking, building, home, agriculture, metering, and factory automation.
The LoRa Core portfolio consists of sub-GHz transceiver chips, gateway chips and reference designs including SX126x series, SX127x series and LLCC68 transceiver chips, as well as the SX130x series gateway chips, legacy gateway reference designs and the LoRa Corecell gateway reference designs.