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· One min read
Nik Hawks

Can you use LoRaWAN for emergencies? Yep. Semtech and iWOW Technology Ltd announced they've been running a LoRaWAN based emergency alert system in Singapore covering 10,000 public housing flats; that's a lot!

The system has been in place and running since 2019, and 6 years on 98% of the devices are still operational. This is a classic example of elder care IoT solutions, bringing high tech to help with emergency alerts.

The system is simple; it's just a wall-mounted red button that anyone can press to route an emergency call to a 24 hour response center. Simultaneously, the app used notifies next of kin.

These types of systems also offer opportunities to the businesses providing them, as once you're providing coverage for emergency buttons you're also providing coverage for the rest of the building.

If you're building a LoRaWAN-based business, thinking about your gateway use case (pun intended) as just the beginning is a great way to enter a market.

Get 'em!

· 2 min read
Nik Hawks

Synethesia is when the expereince of one sense triggers another. The classic example is seeing colors when hearing music, but you could taste words, smell sounds, or feel textures when you see colors.

A recent excellent Freakonomics episode with David Eagleman sparked an idea on how to combine synthestia with LoRaWAN for spatial awareness in the military context.

· 3 min read
MeteoScientific
Nik Hawks

Back in 2022, Mike Harttree, an IoT Architect at Cisco, gave a talk at the LoRa Alliance's annual conference about how the U.S. government is using LoRaWAN to enhance operational efficiency and tackle long-standing logistical challenges.

With all the current fuss about Meshtastic and LoRa, I thought it'd be a good idea to review what has already been done. Some of this is super basic (replacing fuel stick measurements with digital ones), but after all, that's what IoT is about; digitizing the measurements of our world.

It doesn't have to be fancy, it just has to work.