As the NHS battle to save thousands of lives across the country, we're looking to how technology could help. Could IoT healthcare devices be the future of patient care? This blog post looks at some of the LoRaWAN devices available, and how they could benefit the NHS. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic...

After last week's visit to The Things Conference in Amsterdam, our technical team gave us a little run down of the "ones to watch" for 2020. We talked about the best LoRaWAN sensors on show at the conference, and how they might change our lives in the not-too-distant future! Our team at The Things ...

I've published an example payload decoder for Netvox sensors using The Things Network . It'll also work with Chirpstack with some simple modifications. What is a payload decoder? A bit of background, LoRaWAN is an open protocol that defines communication between low powered sensor devices and the In...

[caption id="attachment_6872" align="alignnone" width="1260"] Smart Cities Awards 2020[/caption] Alliot are delighted to be shortlisted as Solution Provider of the Year at the Smart Cities Awards in London! The shortlist announcement marks a first for us and we couldn't be happier to be acknowledge...

This week, a security company called IOActive published a white paper on security vulnerabilities in LoRaWAN. You can read it here. I was also in the audience at a talk they gave during the Things Conference 2020 in Amsterdam last week on the same subject of security in LoRaWAN. This report has caus...

If you've got a LoRaWAN gateway, or are in range of an open gateway such as The Things Network , you'll need some sensors to start collecting data. Find out how Paul (our head technical advisor) made his own DIY LoRaWAN sensor using a Lora32u4 board. We will be supplying commercial sensors but for e...