Building The Things Network in Africa using TTN Mapper
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Maps actual LoRaWAN coverage in Cape Town and rural Zambia, installs gateways and measures real ranges rather than promising examples, documents 500 m actual range through thick forest vs 10+ km simulation, shows improvement after raising a gateway from 6 m to 40–45 m and the cost pitfall of roaming into Namibia, open‑sources the mapping hardware and software, rewrites the Android app for background MQTT, integrates with TTN and reports growth from 3 million to 30 million datapoints.
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