Industrial LoRaWAN Stack
The Industrial LoRaWAN® Protocol Stack is a more advanced development of the Open Source Long Ranger Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN® Stack and is intended for productive industrial use in complex environments with high security requirements and at maximum performance.
Open Source VS. Industrial
| FEATURE LIST | OPEN SOURCE | INDUSTRIAL |
| bleeding edge features | ✓ | ✓1 |
| available as source code | ✓ | ✓1 |
| simple C library for easy integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| worldwide coverage | ✓ | ✓ |
| secure serial interface for modem like use with encryption | X | ✓ |
| Management Entity | X | ✓ |
| variable length de-/fragmentation | (✓)1 | ✓ |
| prepared for multi-stack operation | (✓)1 | ✓ |
| industrial grade maturity and hardening | X | ✓ |
| warranty about compliance | X | ✓2 |
| long-term maintenance and availability | X | ✓ |
| option to overcome duty cycle limitation (LBT-AFA) | X | ✓ |
| Firmware Update over the Air (FUOTA) | ✓ | ✓ |
1 possible on demand
2 requires porting by STACKFORCE
A FEW FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS
Flexible Interfaces
- API for Application Layer for single chip solutions
(API for other layers (e.g. DLL) possible) - API for externalization of security functions
- well formed hardware abstraction layer (HAL)
- available as library
Support of hardware acceleration
If provided by the platform, the stack supports use of hardware acceleration, like
- AES de-/encryption
- CRC-16
- de-/encoding of Manchester, 3 out of 6, ...
Network Processor
- well proven serial interface with minimal overhead
- all API functions available via serial interface
- serial interface supports UART, SPI, I2C, ...
- AES encryption for serial interface
Support of any type of non-volatile memory
- EEPROM, Flash, MRAM, ...
- internal / external (e.g. connected via SPI)
COMMERCIAL FEATURES
- first level support
- easy commissioning and configuration
- warranty and maintenance
- ensures a high quality product
