Buy Versus Build: Options for LoRa Cloud™ Geolocation Integrations

Yabby Edge for LoRaWAN® is Digital Matter's new compact and ultra-rugged battery-powered IoT asset tracking device for indoor and outdoor tracking and management using LoRaWAN. 

LoRa Edge™ Tracker Reference Design, LR1110
The LoRa Edge Tracker Reference Design featuring Semtech's LoRa Edge LR1110, is pre-programmed with LoRa Basics™ Modem-E and is ready to connect to Semtech’s LoRa Cloud Modem & Geolocation Services. There are different versions available multiple bands including US-915, EU-868, AU-922, JP-923, AS1-923. The LoRa Edge Tracker Reference Design is LoRaWAN Certified CM.

LoRa Edge Development Kit, LR1110
This evaluation kit features Semtech's LoRa Edge LR1110. It comes with an STM32 MCU board together with an LR1110 shield which plugs into the MCU board together with antennas and everything required for your development. There are different versions available multiple bands including US-915, EU-868, and CN-490.

Build an End-to-End Solution Using the LoRaWAN® Protocol and LoRa Edge LR1110 
This lab guides you through setting up an asset-tracking system using the LoRaWAN^® Standard, from hardware through to data visualization dashboards.

Enable highly-secure and reliable communication between your IoT application and the devices it manages. Azure IoT Hub provides a Cloud-hosted solution backend to connect to nearly any device. Extend your solution from the Cloud to the edge with per-device authentication, built-in device management, and scaled provisioning. In addition to IoT, Azure Cloud services provide the essential components required to build a custom asset tracking application including database and mapping.

Additonal Resources: https://github.com/Lora-net/SWNW003

AWS has broad and deep IoT services, from the edge to the cloud. AWS IoT is the only cloud vendor to bring together data management and rich analytics in easy-to-use services designed for noisy IoT data. AWS offers many of the key building-block components in one place to build a complete asset tracking application including the AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN® managed network server, Amazon DynamoDB as the database, Amazon Location for mapping, AWS Lambda for payload decoding, and many more.

Additional Resources: Integrating LoRa Cloud™ with AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN^®

Cumulocity is an IoT platform provided by Software AG, which is rated by Gartner as one of the leading IoT platforms in the market. Cumulocity has integrated Semtech’s LoRa Cloud into its platform, allowing customers to benefit from geolocation data captured by LoRa Edge-based trackers. With this new feature, Cumulocity users can easily integrate track-and-trace data into their applications.  

Ivanti Neurons for IIoT empowers supply chain businesses to drive operational excellence through low-code/no-code workflow automation. It enables supply chain businesses to collect the right information at the right time, easily visualize and
analyse it and create automation workflows.

Ivanti Neurons for IIoT allows businesses to integrate industrial IoT applications into existing operations. The platform simplifies the use of real-time data collected for greater efficiency in operational decision-making and allows customers to cross-connect applications with new systems – rapidly automating their processes and optimizing workflow operations.     

Additional Resources: The Guide to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for Supply Chain. 

The TagoIO Cloud Platform is fully integrated with LoRa Cloud to help users obtain an end-to-end real-time location system (RTLS) in minutes. An initial dashboard template is automatically created in the customer portal as soon as the LR1110 kit is added to the account. From there on, developers can create PDF reports, alerts, geofences, analytics, and even a completely customized IoT portal for end-users—all at no cost—for up to five devices. 

Tencent Cloud IoT Explorer fully integrates LoRa Cloud geolocation capabilities, including a comprehensive toolchain, with a built-in LoRaWAN network server. The Tencent Cloud IoT Explorer development environment enables users to easily create a complete IoT geolocation application.  Get more information here.

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that can help you realize your desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. The Professional Services team has collaborated with Semtech to demonstrate how AWS & AWS IoT services can be integrated with Semtech LoRa Cloud to create a turnkey asset tracking solution. Contact AWS Professional Services to see how they can help you build your LoRa Cloud-enabled asset tracking application on AWS.

Additional Resources: Semtech Webinar: Track & Trace Using AWS and LoRa Cloud Services

TensorIoT is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner that provides customers with innovative products, solutions, and consulting services to deliver business value from IoT, data, and machine learning technology. With seven AWS competencies and multiple service delivery credentials, the AWS-certified TensorIoT team accelerates customers’ realization of their technology and business goals. TensorIoT collaborates with Semtech and AWS to simplify IoT solution development and provides best-in-class IoT solutions that leverage highly-scalable AWS Services, such as AWS IoT Core and Semtech’s LoRa® devices. To learn more or to schedule a demo, visit  https://www.tensoriot.com/.

GeoTracker is a plug-and-play asset tracking and fleet management IoT platform & Apps that offers businesses real time / historical insights to their key resources, empowering their employees to optimize their logistics and digitize their operations.

GeoTracker delivers the entire outdoor and indoor ( floor / room) real time / historical solution, using LoRa and cellular Edge based Trackers and Cloud Geolocation services along with web & mobile apps. The open API platform allows seamless integration with enterprise IT systems using a variety of powered and battery trackers that last several years.

Lucid Solutions, a company deeply involved in automotive process optimization, offers dedicated asset management solutions that optimize the logistics flows of returnable assets. Lucid Solutions now delivers LoRa Edge-based traceability for the automotive domain, which needs cost-effective tools that provide indoor and outdoor geolocation tracking with extended battery life.

SmartMakers, a state-of-the-art IoT solutions provider, has deep expertise in creating asset tracking solutions and offers real-time visibility into the location, condition, and status of carriers, shipments, containers, vehicles, and equipment. 

Given the importance of power-consumption savings as a key differentiator for its target applications, SmartMakers’ asset tracking solution now includes devices with LoRa Edge. For more information, visit https://smartmakers.io/.

Taggr partners with asset owners to generate actionable intelligence for managers, renters, and users of construction equipment. The partnership results in lowering the total lifecycle cost of equipment ownership and use, and ultimately enables next-generation assets-as-a-service business models. Offered purely on an “as-a-service” basis, this solution with LoRa Edge requires zero up-front costs. This is enabled by a slim, compact form factor device that is ideal for efficiently digitalizing existing fleets of rental construction equipment.