Smart Werke Meran - Lorawan Use Cases
summary
City of Meran runs an open source LoRaWAN stack (CH stack) with gateways in 71 electrical cabinets, 4G modems and planned fiber, claiming battery life up to 10 years and no per-device fees. Network supports up to 15 km rural / ~1 km urban; typical uplink is 50 bytes payload. Deployments: 6,200 light points with 1,900 controllers (Class C), 50 water smart meters with 45 of 50 meters responding and billing from LoRa data in 2025, 36 microclimate sensors and 40 GPS-tracked waste containers. Integration uses MQTT/API.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and open source mandate
- 1:53LoRaWAN network basics
- 3:46LoRaWAN infrastructure setup
- 7:00CH stack network server
- 10:19Field to cloud data flow
- 11:21Smart lighting use case
- 12:26Smart metering and sensors
- 13:52Waste container tracking
- 14:57Q&A session
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