Featured Articles
How RAKwireles can empower you with IoT Software Tools
Empowering The Innovators - RAK’s Goal for This Season
RUI3: Simplified IoT Development for Low Power LoRaWAN devices
On International Women's Day we #BreakTheBias at RAKwireless
RAK and One Planet Education Network Promote IoT Learning and Development Through STEM Kit
RAKwireless Announces Partnership with One Planet Education Network (OPEN) to Launch STEM IoT Sensor Kits for Schools Worldwide
ANNOUNCEMENT: Chinese Lunar New Year Holiday
WeBank Names RAKwireless CEO, Ken Yu, as a "Top 10 Startup CEO"
New WisBlock Modules in RAK Autumn Launch
Plan your next adventure and just TrackIt RAK2171 WisNode TrackIt
Hello MNTD. — Crypto Hardware For the Rest of Us
RAKwireless Launches New Company to Bring Crypto Mining to More Individuals and Accelerate Growth of Helium’s Peer-to-Peer LoRaWAN Network
Helium Data Only Hotspot Setup with RAK Concentrator + Raspberry Pi
How do LoRaWAN® Gateways work?
What is a LoRaWAN Gateway?
Things to Consider When Picking A LoRaWAN® Gateway
RAKwireless Closes $10M Series A Funding Round
LoRaWAN® 101: All You Need To Know
The future of RAK’s gateways is WisGateOS
Managing over the air with WisDM
Accelerating A Connected World The New RAK Way
The Big Tech Bloom: RAK’s Spring Launch is here!
Why Choose LoRa® Module RAK4270 for your Long-Range and Low-Power IoT Application
The Things Conference 2021 Recap with RAKwireless
ANNOUNCEMENT: Shipment processing changes due to Chinese Spring Festival Celebration
Reactive vs Proactive: How IoT makes the former obsolete and the latter possible
How to Reduce the Power Consumption of WisBlock Solutions?
Why We Make WisBlock: The Story Behind RAK’s Modular IoT Platform
How IoT Entrepreneurs Use Existing Tools to Build Smart-Technology Empires
How to Create Custom WisBlock Sensor or WisBlock IO Module
Connected Parks in the IoT World: How LoRaWAN® Can Help You Be Prepared Whether in Town or Hiking
Why We Believe Helium Was Right From the Very Beginning
Build your IoT Breakthroughs Fast with the WisBlock System!
#Blogs
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Redesigning the Classroom with LoRaWAN®
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Time of Flight Sensors: What Are They?
RAK WisBlock ToF Sensor uses a laser impulse to measure the distance between itself and the target object, with a range of up to 1.5 meters.
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Types of Antennas and Their Functions
An antenna is a transducer used to transform RF (radio-frequency) signals traveling on a wire into an electromagnetic wave or vice versa. It plays a crucial role in strengthening the wireless connectivity of your IoT devices.
#eBooks
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Learn More and Choose Wisely with the WisGate Edge Series
You can find information on topics like key features and benefits of the WisGate Edge gateways here.
#Events
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Meet the New RAKwireless Hardware for the 2022 Spring Launch
At RAKwireless we work to be at the forefront of technology and make it easier to use. An example of this is the new Battery Plus System, and also the new modules for the WisBlock Ecosystem, all of them inspired by the needs of the IoT Community.
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How RAKwireles can empower you with IoT Software Tools
Do you think IoT is just hardware tools? Well, RAKwireless is here to prove that it is not. We’ve been working on some software tools to empower all our users to develop their ideas.
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Empowering The Innovators - RAK’s Goal for This Season
As the market grows, we grow with it. RAKwireless started as a hardware company, but slowly and steadily upped its game and became something much more – an IoT solutions provider.
#Hands-on with RAKStars
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Hands-on with RAKStars San Valentine's Edition
Every day is a wonderful one to express our love. However, #Valentine's Day is a great excuse to be sweeter than ever. Due to this, we wanted to build something tech special little thing to give a present to your loved ones.
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Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 48 with Daniel deLaveaga
During this session, Daniel deLaveaga, Chief Storytelling Officer at Ioterra, will share his professional journey connecting product developers with experts and resources to meet their needs when developing innovative IoT products
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Hands-on with RAKStars Xmas Edition
During this session, RAK's team of experts, Jose Marcelino, Johan Macias, and Maria Hernandez, will be closing up the year by hacking the RAK ecosystem to build a Christmas Project to give that Xmas spirit to your electronics projects.
#Helium
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San José is America's First Helium-Partnered Smart City
RAK analyzed different aspects of smart cities including one article in which some of the most innovative international destinations were highlighted. In late 2021, the city of San José, California became the first locale to enter into a public-private partnership with Helium Inc.
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Raise your Antennas! What to consider when choosing an antenna for your Helium project
When you hear about Helium, the people’s network, the first thing that comes to mind is interconnected devices. Those antennas are part of the magic of the Helium network.
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Why Did Helium, Inc Change Its Name?
At the end of March, Amir Haleem, the CEO of Helium, Inc, announced that his corporation would be renamed Nova Labs. This news was paired with the disclosure of a Series D equity round where the company raised $200M.
#Latest News
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Beware of Scam Websites Claiming to be Affiliated with RAKwireless
We’ve been made aware that some of our RAK customers have unfortunately fallen prey to unassuming fraudulent websites selling MNTD. Hotspots, RAK Hotspot V2, and other RAK products.
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Get a special bonus when you sign up for the RAK Affiliate Program this June 20 to 23, 2022!
If you sign up for the RAK Affiliate program from June 20 to 23, you can get a $50 sign-on bonus!
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RAK joins the Climate Clock Network using the WisBlock Ecosystem
We are in a climate emergency, but there is a window of hope. Be part of the solution by creating your own Desktop Climate Clock.
#Press Release
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RAKwireless Announces Partnership with One Planet Education Network (OPEN) to Launch STEM IoT Sensor Kits for Schools Worldwide
RAKwireless Technology Limited announces today their partnership with One Planet Education Network to provide OPEN-RAK Do-It-Yourself (DIY) STEM Lab Sensor Wisblock kits to students.
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WeBank Names RAKwireless CEO, Ken Yu, as a "Top 10 Startup CEO"
Award empowers customers from early start-up stages and supports acceleration innovations
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MNTD. by RAKwireless Expands Helium Peer-to-Peer LoRaWAN Network into Europe and Canada
MNTD. by RAKwireless moves forward to serve new locations and expand The People’s Network even further across the globe.
#Product Reviews
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New WisBlock Modules in RAK Autumn Launch
The WisBlock IoT hardware platform just keeps growing and growing. This RAK Autumn Launch event, we are introducing more WisBlock Modules which includes a new WisBlock Core based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip and a new WisBlock Base board that is smaller and low power.
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Plan your next adventure and just TrackIt RAK2171 WisNode TrackIt
Planning your next adventure is easy in a connected world – the connected world that we, at RAK, envision! Safety and knowing your place in the world are key for that vision. And what’s easier than to just track it? Your place, I mean.
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Some Q&A About our Bobcat Enclosure
As The People’s Network grows more and more, Helium miners are deployed every day. Even though not all of them are RAK Hotspot Miners we, as a believer in Helium’s work, try our best to boost this growth.
#Thought Leadership
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All You Need to Know About IoT Antennas: Basic Principles
LoRa® antennas, Wi-Fi antennas and Cellular antennas are the most commonly used types in IoT and one or more reside in any end-device or network gateway. Their number, quality and location determine how well devices will be able to communicate.
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Prototyping: How To Make A Clean and Compact Connection with Wisblock
All the necessary details you need to know about the WisBlock connectors. WisBlock is designed to make your life easy by creating clean and scalable IoT prototypes.
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Signal Mapping in a Building: A LoRaWAN Experiment
Is your own building fighting your IoT solution?🥊 It could be if you haven’t signal-mapped before installation. Read here for pointers on optimizing the LoRaWAN signals in your building, and a useful real-life case study to show how it works in action. Knowledge is power.
#Tutorial
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Developing Enterprise IoT Solutions powered by RAKwireless and Ubidots
Welcome to the new easy! RAK and Ubidots have collaborated to make IoT projects super simple to install. And end-device data simple to monitor, measure and manage. Check out our exciting news
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Get started with RUI3 API
This article aims to show you the basics to start creating your custom firmware with RUI3 API. We have already the API documentation available in our Documentation Center and example code can be found in the RUI3 BSP and in our Github repo.
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Basics™ Station on RAK WisGate Developer Gateways
Since you are here, you probably know what Basics™ Station is and you are interested in knowing how to run it on one of our WisGate Developer Gateways or any other device. But first, let me make a brief introduction.