When deploying a LoRaWAN network you want to know your gateway coverage and measure the radio performance in different places. When deploying Helium network you particularly want to know how many Hotspot around can be touched for a given position. Then you want to enrich the network mappers to know and share the real network coverage.
There are some existing tools for such application but the cost is about $200. The idea of this project is to propose a simple tool you can build on your own with low cost hardware to fulfill this purpose.
The solution is based on low cost products, easy to find for about $50:
- Wio Terminal
- RFM95
- Quectel L80 / L86 GNSS
The solution also supports ready for use hardware:
To get a better understanding on how WioLoRaWANFieldTester works, read this page.
- Easy selection for Power / Sf / max retries
- Duty cycle status display
- Last setting flash memory backup
- Graph selection display
- Rx Rssi - acked Rssi level
- Rx Snr - acked Snr level
- Retries - number of retry before getting a ack
- Tx Rssi - network side Rssi
- Hotspots - network side hotspot
- Distance - hotspot distance (in progress)
- GPS status - current GPS status
- Manual / Automatic mode switch
- Display last frame information
- Network side RSSI / SNR / #of station
- Your favorite network splash screen (select in config.h)
- Screen shot and user guide
- RFM95 Schematics
- GPS position reporting with Helium mapper integration
- LiPo charging mode detection
- PCB availbale
- Enclosure available
- Serial port LoRaWan setup configuration
- End-user setup screen
- Setup with Cargo (helium tracking platform)
- Ready for industrial production with credential commissining
- Support firmware upgrade w/o credential loss (LoRa-E5 only)
- sdcard data storage
- stop reporting on movement stop
- low power management for longer autonomy
The WioLoRaWANFieldTester board can be
Read and follow the steps in WioLoRaWANFieldTester configuration documentation
Read the User Guide documentation
Read the developer documentation