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New Module for LoRa®, Real Deployments, Field Tools & Event Invites

New Module for LoRa®, Real Deployments, Field Tools & Event Invites

This month, we’re highlighting real deployments, breakthrough modules, and major industry events. Our technology is driving real-world impact from solar-powered gateways for LoRaWAN® that irrigate remote farms to WisGateOS extensions that tackle everyday challenges in the field.
WisGate Soho Pro: Optimal Coverage with Built-In LoRa Antenna

WisGate Soho Pro: Optimal Coverage with Built-In LoRa Antenna

Discover the WisGate Soho Pro (RAK7267), designed with a high-efficiency 2.5 dBi built-in antenna for optimal LoRa coverage. Whether installed on poles, in urban environments, or wall-mounted for directional coverage, this versatile gateway delivers reliable connectivity
An In-Depth Knowledge about Apple HomeKit

An In-Depth Knowledge about Apple HomeKit

Explore Apple HomeKit, a smart home platform offering seamless control of popular devices like locks, lights, and thermostats. With its HAP protocol and encrypted communication, HomeKit ensures efficient performance and enhanced privacy.
8 Applications of LoRaWAN | More Than Just Tech

8 Applications of LoRaWAN | More Than Just Tech

Discover 8 groundbreaking applications of LoRaWAN, ranging from smart agriculture to healthcare, cities, homes, and industrial control. Learn how LoRaWAN technology is shaping a smarter, more efficient future.
Secure and Flexible: Whitelisting in IoT Networks

Secure and Flexible: Whitelisting in IoT Networks

Explore how advanced whitelisting in LoRaWAN® networks enhances security and operational efficiency. Learn about our innovative approach that extends whitelisting from Basic Station to Packet Forwarder mode, providing robust protection for your IoT infrastructure.
What is IoT Gateway Fleet Management and Why Do You Need It?

What is IoT Gateway Fleet Management and Why Do You Need It?

A centralized IoT Gateway Fleet Management system provides efficient control and monitoring of numerous IoT gateways within a network. It facilitates smooth integration, configuration, and management, improving operational efficiency and cutting maintenance costs.
SenoSpace and RAKwireless Team Up to Enhance Smart Living

SenoSpace and RAKwireless Team Up to Enhance Smart Living

SenoSpace, a leader in smart home and building solutions, now includes the RAK11720 module in its products for better efficiency, coverage, and reliability. This collaboration has significantly improved SenoSpace's smart sensor technology.
Understanding the Advantages and Limitations of LoRaWAN®

Understanding the Advantages and Limitations of LoRaWAN®

When selecting tech for your IoT project, consider LoRaWAN's broad reach and efficient power consumption alongside its constraints. With thoughtful planning, LoRaWAN can be essential to your IoT system, helping devices talk in areas where other technologies may fail.
An Eventful First Month of 2024 for RAKwireless

An Eventful First Month of 2024 for RAKwireless

As we wave goodbye to January, we wanted to share some of the exciting updates and enhancements we've made at RAKwireless. From new product launches to major firmware upgrades, it's been an eventful month that sets a fantastic pace for the rest of the year.
Link.ONE – Connect to the IoT Network of Your Choice

Link.ONE – Connect to the IoT Network of Your Choice

Link.ONE is a powerful IoT device that offers unparalleled connectivity and versatility. With support for cellular, GPS, LoRa/LoRaWAN, and BLE communication as well as expandable modular design, Link.ONE is ideal for a wide range of IoT applications.
5 Reasons Why We Love IoT ❤️

5 Reasons Why We Love IoT ❤️

From RAKwireless we have enough reasons to believe you should love the Internet of Things (IoT) as much as we do. Let us help you revolutionize the way you live by connecting devices and systems this Valentine's Day.
LoRa Alliance® Introduces Relay Feature

LoRa Alliance® Introduces Relay Feature

The use of Relays and their introduction to the standard would allow to reduce infrastructure CAPEX costs, especially at the edge of the network, while providing stable coverage for mission critical applications for example where consistent coverage is a must.
Connectivity, Done Right with RAKwireless

Connectivity, Done Right with RAKwireless

Connectivity is what brings us together and what helps us understand the tangled world around us. This is something that happens in the background of life, a constant process that makes the world tick.
Listen Before Talk – The Key to Good LoRaWAN® Communication

Listen Before Talk – The Key to Good LoRaWAN® Communication

The Listen Before Talk #LBT feature is available in all our WisGate Edge version 2 gateways thanks to the amazing capabilities of WisGateOS 2 and the available extension. Don’t miss out on a great market opportunity in South Korea and Japan and minimize data loss with LBT.
LoRa vs LR-FHSS

LoRa vs LR-FHSS

This article will present some numerical data and also some real scenario measurements in order to compare the new LoRa Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum modulation scheme used post LoRaWAN 1.0.2 spec.
All You Need to Know About IoT Antennas: Basic Principles

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.
Signal Mapping in a Building: A LoRaWAN Experiment

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.
San José is America's First Helium-Partnered Smart City

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.
Why Did Helium, Inc Change Its Name?

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.
Types of Antennas and Their Functions

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.
What is Helium Network Gaming?

What is Helium Network Gaming?

The Helium network is a massive decentralized LoRaWAN® network that compensates those who host physical hotspots by rewarding them with Helium tokens, or $HNT. This system is known as Proof-of-Coverage (PoC).
On International Women's Day we #BreakTheBias at RAKwireless

On International Women's Day we #BreakTheBias at RAKwireless

From RAKwireless, we want to recognize our colleagues. We are a company in constant global expansion, leading the IoT ecosystem with projects in multiple industries. With women in all areas of our organization who are constantly reaching achievements. We want to build a better future thanks to IoT.
Hands-on with RAKStars San Valentine's Edition

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.
What Does the 3G Sunset Mean for Helium?

What Does the 3G Sunset Mean for Helium?

Over the last few months, there have been a lot of articles about the “end” of 3G. The shutdown, the sunset, the point at which certain devices are rendered inoperable, or, what Wired terms the “3G-pocalypse.”
Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 48 with Daniel deLaveaga

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
How IoT Can Help Cities Respond to Emergencies

How IoT Can Help Cities Respond to Emergencies

Climate change is real. In 2021 alone, several natural disasters have occurred in unexpected places as a result of our planet’s changing temperatures, such as the recent tornado in Kentucky, USA.
Hands-on with RAKStars Xmas Edition

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.
What is Helium Roaming?

What is Helium Roaming?

“Roaming” is one of those dirty words that appeared in its modern form at some point in the mid-2000s. Though many consumers would struggle to give a coherent definition, cell phone roaming is a subject that most instinctively run away from.
3 Ways IoT Is Changing the Future of Travel and Tourism

3 Ways IoT Is Changing the Future of Travel and Tourism

As technologies advance, global travel becomes more convenient and accessible than ever. But the rise in tourism and air travel brings about its own challenges, such as greater energy consumption, increased waste, bigger crowds, and more.
Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 46 with Cristina Botero

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 46 with Cristina Botero

During this session, Cristina Botero, Business Development and Partner Manager of Ubidots, will share her professional journey, including how she has been empowered into the IoT ecosystem to grow a local startup's business to an international level.
WisBlock Integration to Blynk

WisBlock Integration to Blynk

With RAKwireless’s variety of sensors and modules, you may think of endless project possibilities and one of those could be thinking of a way to integrate your project into a web or mobile dashboard for monitoring and control purposes.
How IoT Can Create A Safer Workplace During A Pandemic

How IoT Can Create A Safer Workplace During A Pandemic

Working from home has become the new normal since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. As more vaccinations roll out globally and restrictions ease, it’s only now that some companies have attempted to return to the physical workplace.
Make a Helium Mapper with the WisBlock

Make a Helium Mapper with the WisBlock

Helium Mappers is a community-driven project looking to provide information about the effective coverage for nodes (LoRaWAN end devices) within the Helium Network.
Helium Developer Kit

Helium Developer Kit

The Internet of Things (IoT) plays an essential role in the way we live nowadays and how new technologies impact the way we connect devices to the internet.
What HIP15 and HIP17 Mean for Your Miner Earnings

What HIP15 and HIP17 Mean for Your Miner Earnings

The Helium project has a community-driven proposal system that can be found on GitHub. When a rough consensus has been achieved in the review committee, a Helium Improvement Proposal (HIP) will be marked as “approved,” and then the code can be merged and deployed.
Some Q&A About our Bobcat Enclosure

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.
Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 41 with Johan Macias

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 41 with Johan Macias

During this session, Johan Macias, Developer Advocate at RAK, will be sharing the technical details about the implementation of containers in LoRa/LoRaWAN applications based on the WisBlock ecosystem, as well as all the benefits it brings us as IoT developers.
Exploring HIP 35: Safe RF Meta-Data Side Channel

Exploring HIP 35: Safe RF Meta-Data Side Channel

Helium project has a community-driven proposal system that can be found on GitHub. When a rough consensus has been achieved in the review committee, a Helium Improvement Proposal (HIP) will be marked as “approved,” and then the code can be merged and deployed.
Exploring Helium Improvement Proposal 24: Reward Splitting

Exploring Helium Improvement Proposal 24: Reward Splitting

The Helium project has a community-driven proposal system that can be found on GitHub. When a rough consensus has been achieved in the review committee, a Helium Improvement Proposal (HIP) will be marked as “approved” and then the code can be merged and deployed.
Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 33 with Amine Mehdi Mansouri

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 33 with Amine Mehdi Mansouri

Amine will share his experience working with different IoT projects and what it's like to launch a successful Kickstarter campaign to create end products - such as the Axon, an IoT device that aims to connect any serial-speaking device to the internet by connecting two wires.
How Helium Rewards Can Subsidize an IoT Solution Rollout

How Helium Rewards Can Subsidize an IoT Solution Rollout

The Helium cryptocurrency has surged in popularity in 2021. While early investors have seen jaw-dropping returns and many of those hosting hotspots have been pleased with their earnings, there is a practical use case behind all of the hype.
Helium Light Hotspots

Helium Light Hotspots

The Helium network is expanding and at quite an impressive rate. With more than 70,655 active hotspots, it should come as no surprise that the load on each hotspot is increasing, and the blockchain sync time is increasing for all of these new hotspots.
Why IoT Is the Future of Manufacturing

Why IoT Is the Future of Manufacturing

As technology continues to advance exponentially, industries are faced with a choice: either adapt or fall behind. The manufacturing industry is especially affected.
Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 30 with Marc Pous and Xose Pérez

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 30 with Marc Pous and Xose Pérez

Xose Peréz, and Marc Pous, both Engineers, IoT hackers, and loyal open-source contributors, share their experience hacking LoRaWAN systems, contributing to the expansion of the network in Spain, as well as some tips-n-tricks to build and deploy LoRaWAN IoT solutions from scratch.
Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 28 with Paul Pinault

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 28 with Paul Pinault

Paul Pinault, an engineer with years of experienced in several a companies who is dedicated to the creation of IoT devices, with a mission of sharing his professional experiences in university trainings, as well with the open source community.
IoT: Making Dogs More Than Just Man’s Best Friend

IoT: Making Dogs More Than Just Man’s Best Friend

Humans are social beings, we need our close circle of family and friends. But it is not always possible to have someone around us, especially in strange times like now, with the Covid-19 situation, where social distancing is key.
IoT: The Future of Health

IoT: The Future of Health

Healthcare is at a precipice of evolving, and with the recent worldwide pandemic, the rate it is changing is becoming much faster.
RAKwireless Closes $10M Series A Funding Round

RAKwireless Closes $10M Series A Funding Round

Despite global manufacturing and supply chain disruption, the renowned producer of IoT hardware and software tools has seen tremendous growth. The brand supplies technology to household name IoT devices such as Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Helium-network compatible RAK Hotspot Miner.
RAKwireless Works Hand In Hand With Alliot Technologies

RAKwireless Works Hand In Hand With Alliot Technologies

RAKwireless is delighted to announce Alliot Technologies as its Gold-Level Value Added Reseller (VAR). Through this collaboration, RAKwireless and Alliot begin a new journey towards ensuring reliable LoRaWAN® IoT solutions throughout the UK and Europe.
Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 16 with Paul Pinault

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 16 with Paul Pinault

In this session, Paul, a lover of hacking #LoRaWAN and Sigfox system shares his journey working with several software and hardware projects, and at the same time, the story behind Disk91.com a technical blog where he shares about #IoT, Infrastructure, and Hardware related topics.
Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 15 with Agustin Pelaez

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 15 with Agustin Pelaez

In this session, Agustin shares his journey as entrepreneur founding #Ubidots, a global IoT startup with thousand of users worldwide, as well as many other experiences working next to developers in various IoT projects from different industries worldwide.
Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 12 with Xose Peréz

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 12 with Xose Peréz

In this session, Xose shares what it's like to step out of the software world and join the hardware - the fun part of any development. We discussed about the process of creating the open-source projects, among them the two most well know in the IoT community, ESPurna, and FauxmoESP.
Become A RAKwireless Affiliate!

Become A RAKwireless Affiliate!

The RAKwireless Affiliate program is a way for the RAK community to earn a commission. Each referred sale brought about by the affiliate partner’s own efforts will earn them a 5% commission across all products.
The wait is over! The new WisGate Developer D4H is here.

The wait is over! The new WisGate Developer D4H is here.

A LoRaWAN® Gateway consisting of Raspberry Pi 4, RAK2287 Concentrator, and RAK2287 Pi HAT, the WisGate Developer D4H includes a GPS module (built-in to the RAK2287) and a heat sink for better performance, all housed in a durable and compact casing.
Some Q&A for our Built-in Network Server

Some Q&A for our Built-in Network Server

We are proud of the Built-In Network Server in our Commercial Gateways and it seems that you, our customers, are quite interested in it as well. In time we received a lot of questions about it.
The Future of Public Transport

The Future of Public Transport

A brief take on all aspects of a public transit network and how IoT helps the development monitoring and maintenance of it all be easier and more beneficial.
Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 10 with Carlos Solis

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 10 with Carlos Solis

In this session, Carlos Solis shares his passion for creating connected things. He details his latest project called “The Gas Tank Cap,” a WisBlock-based system that detects every time the cap is removed to prevent gasoline and cap theft.
Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 9 with Antonio Valente

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 9 with Antonio Valente

In this session, we will talk about Antonio Valente's experience working in the field of micro-system for agriculture during the past years. He will be sharing about the projects SAFe — Forest Alert System, and eno — Alatytics to monitor vineyards.
RAK Developers: Take Our Survey

RAK Developers: Take Our Survey

At RAK, we value your feedback. That is why we invite you to take part in our RAK Developer Community Survey to help us better understand your needs and enhance our offerings.
How PLC Technology Can Take IoT Even Further

How PLC Technology Can Take IoT Even Further

Power Line Communications is a communication technology that utilizes existing low-voltage power lines to transmit signals. PLC technology can also transmit high-speed data, voice, and video quickly and efficiently.
Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 1 with Bryn Lewis

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 1 with Bryn Lewis

In this "Hands-on RAKStars" session, Bryn shared with us his experience in the industry and within the community, the contributions he has made to support .NET in RAK modules, as well as the integrations with Microsoft services to deploy IoT applications.
Rock Off Your RAK! Photo Contest

Rock Off Your RAK! Photo Contest

Win exciting prizes from RAKwireless when you submit a photo of a RAK product that helped you use IoT for the good! Share your solution and we'll feature you.
Work Hard and Have Fun with the Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Work Hard and Have Fun with the Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Through the years, millions from all over the world have relied on Amazon to buy and sell products. With an inventory of apparel, sports equipment, books, tools, electronic devices, and so much more, Amazon has everything for everyone.

RAKstars - weCARE

With the continuous spread of COVID-19 globally, our teams worldwide have been working out a way on how RAKwireless can help in stopping this dreaded disease from spreading.
LoRaWAN™ vs. the world of IoT!

LoRaWAN™ vs. the world of IoT!

You know (or you will know after reading this) that there are not 1 or 2 technologies and protocols in the Internet of Things. They all have their strengths and weaknesses and today we will discuss that for the main players in the game.
Why You Need LoRaWAN | RAK Smart Devices and Home Security

Why You Need LoRaWAN | RAK Smart Devices and Home Security

If you are looking to connect better with your home or your devices, then LoRaWAN is what you need. It does not require any additional wiring or building infrastructure, this is particularly useful if you are looking for something to communicate better with your smart home and devices.
Inside the World of IoT | LoRaWAN the Smart way to go

Inside the World of IoT | LoRaWAN the Smart way to go

The popularity of IoT is definitely boosted by the availability of Low Powered Wide Area Networks such as LoRaWAN, they allow for the transmission of information between “Things” at low cost, making IoT a sustainable goal.