LoRaWAN device profile and LoRaWAN service profile

This page describes list of LoRaWAN profiles. It mentions LoRaWAN device profile, LoRaWAN service profile and routing profile.

LoRaWAN device Profile

Device profile mentions LoRaWAN end device capabilities and boot parameters required for Network server to setup radio access service. Following table-1 mentions LoRaWAN device profile.

LoRaWAN device profile

In the table "M" indicates "Mandatory to include" and "O" indicates "Optional to include".

LoRaWAN Service Profile

The service profile include service parameters which are required by Network Server to setup LoRaWAN radio access service and to interact with Application Server. Following table-2 mentions LoRaWAN service profile.

LoRaWAN service profile

LoRaWAN Routing Profile

It includes information which are required by Network server to set up data plane with the Application Server. Following table-3 mentions IEs (Information elements) in LoRaWAN routing profile.

LoRaWAN routing profile

Reference: LoRaWANTM Backend Interfaces 1.0 3 Specification Download from www.lora-alliance.org website.

LoRaWAN related links

The LoRa Wireless tutorial covers following sub topics:
Main page LoRa tutorial   LoRa Frequency Bands   LoRa protocol stack   LoRa MAC layer   LoRaWAN classes   LoRa features   LoRa Transceiver module  

Difference between Lora, INSTEON, Z-wave, Zigbee, X10, HomePlug and other M2M IoT wireless technologies

One can easily derive difference between Lora and other wireless IoT technologies such as zigbee, z-wave, insteon, X10, Homeplug, EnOcean, Bluetooth etc. Refer above table and IoT wireless technologies which mentions tabular comparison between these wireless technologies with respect to coverage range, frequency of operation, data rate, security, applications etc. Also refer following difference between links.
LoRa vs NB IoT vs SigFox   INSTEON vs Zigbee   INSTEON vs X10  INSTEON vs HomePlug  INSTEON vs Z-wave

IoT Wireless Technologies

WLAN    ➤THREAD    ➤EnOcean    ➤LoRa    ➤SIGFOX    ➤WHDI    ➤Zigbee   ➤6LoWPAN   ➤Zigbee RF4CE   ➤Z-Wave   ➤NFC   ➤RFID   ➤Lonworks   ➤CEBus   ➤UPB  

RF and Wireless Terminologies