LoRaWAN Gateways and Sensors
Long-Range, Low-Power Connectivity
Bridge Your IoT Across Vast Spaces
Deploying IoT at scale isn’t just about sensors — it’s about reliable, wide-area coverage, low power, and resilience. Pain points include:
- Power constraints and battery life demands
- Coverage gaps and limited range / link reliability
- Device density and traffic collisions
- Managing heterogeneous sensor types & data formats
- Network backhaul and integration complexity
- Scalability, provisioning, and management overhead
If either your gateway or sensor layer is weak, your IoT deployment fails to deliver reliable data and ROI.
LoRaWAN Challenges
Limited Battery / Power Constraints
Many sensors must run for years on small batteries in hard-to-access locations — power use must be minimal.
Coverage / Range Gaps
In large fields, urban areas, or rugged terrain, connectivity gaps occur, and signals fade or drop.
High Device Density & Collisions
Many sensors transmitting simultaneously can cause packet collisions, data loss, or congestion.
Heterogeneous Sensor Types & Formats
You may need temperature sensors, water level sensors, motion, gas, vibration, etc. — different data formats, power needs, payloads.
Backhaul & Connectivity Reliability
Some gateways are in remote or hard-to-wire locations; backhaul may be shaky or flakey.
Scalable Provisioning & Management
Many sensors and multiple gateways demand configuration, monitoring, updates, and management. Doing this manually is impossible.
Subnetik Solutions
Limited Battery / Power Constraints
Use ultra-low power sensor designs, sleep and wake cycles, efficient modulation, and energy harvesting (where applicable).
You deploy once and forget — long life, fewer site visits.
Coverage / Range Gaps
Use high-sensitivity sensors, strategically placed gateways (indoor + outdoor), as well as diversity antennas and link redundancy.
You get robust coverage with fewer gateways.
High Device Density & Collisions
Use adaptive data rate (ADR), channel hopping, class types (A/B/C), and collision mitigation strategies.
Reliable data even as device count scales into the thousands per gateway.
Heterogeneous Sensor Types & Formats
Use multi-sensor, modular platforms that can host various sensing elements, unified payload frameworks, and decoding libraries.
You reuse base hardware and simplify integration across domains.
Backhaul & Connectivity Reliability
Offer gateways with multiple backhaul options (Ethernet, cellular, fiber, LoRa backhaul), failover, ruggedized design, power resilience.
Your sensor data reliably reaches the network server even under adverse conditions.
Scalable Provisioning & Management
Remote provisioning, over-the-air updates (FOTA), centralized gateway/sensor management, health dashboards, bulk enrollment
You scale easily, not painfully — managing deployments from a console, not climbing towers
Why This LoRaWAN Approach Works
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership — fewer gateways, longer battery lives, minimal upkeep.
- Wide Coverage with Sparse Infrastructure — long distances per gateway, fewer hops.
- Robust at Scale — performance holds even when many devices share the network.
- Flexible & Modular Sensor Ecosystem — adapt to multiple use cases using common platforms.
- Reliable Connectivity — gateways resilient to backhaul failures, redundant links.
- Effortless Deployment & Management — remote provisioning, monitoring, and updates reduce field burden.
Subnetik offers a broad portfolio of gateways and sensors, integrated with network server and software platforms. Our gateways support robust outdoor deployment, and our sensor catalogue spans environmental, motion, utility, and structural domains.
