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On Farm LoRaWAN Connectivity Guide
Your Plain-English Guide to choosing sensors, planning the network, mounting gateways, sorting power and backhaul, and making the data flow to the right place.
A Connected Farms Mini Book for Australian Farmers.
LoRaWAN is often the simplest first step on the digital roadmap for a farm.
It is designed to connect lots of low-power sensors over long distances, so farmers can start gathering useful data from tanks, pumps, troughs, paddocks, weather stations, silos and other remote assets without needing a full private mobile network from day one.
This guide is written in the same practical style as the Connected Farms mini-book series.
No tech degree required. Just clear advice on how LoRaWAN projects are usually put together on real farms, and why planning matters.
How to Use This Guide
This mini book is broken into eight standalone chapters. Each one tackles a practical part of a LoRaWAN rollout, from choosing sensors through to power, backhaul and data integration. It can be read front to back as a roadmap, or used chapter by chapter depending on what problem needs solving first.
1. Starting with the Right Sensors
2. Planning the Network with Radio Engineers
3. Re-using Existing Buildings, Silos and Tanks
4. Installing New Poles on Hills and Remote Sites
5. Powering Gateways with Mains, Solar and Battery
6. Choosing the Right Backhaul Path
7. Integration, Dashboards and Making the Data Useful
8. Putting It All Together Safely and Practically
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