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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow by tommoor on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:24PM (#10839972)
LoraWan is super interesting for IOT but as far as I understand it acts more like a traditional radio transmitter? Great for collecting data from lots of discrete sensors but less for bi-directional data transfer
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow by hodwik on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:02PM (#10841079)
It's bidirectional, that's the whole point. If it was unidirectional it would be no better than standard radio.
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow by petra on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:47PM (#10840098)
I think there's also a bi-directional mode for it.
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow by andrey-g on Monday January 04, 2016 @08:57PM (#10840437)
Isn't one for LoRaWAN specifically, but there are other options like Weightless-W (which doesn't have any hardware released for it yet).
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow by petra on Monday January 04, 2016 @09:57PM (#10840726)
The FAQ says bi-directional:

http://www.semtech.com/wireless-rf/lora/LoRa-FAQs.pdf

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