Innovative Satellite LoRa use cases

LoRa is a long range, low bandwith networking protocol widely used in Internet of Things projects, sensor networks, low power, low cost and embedded systems. LoRa’s encoding schema allows for extremely long distance communications with small power usage and small simple antennas. This combination of features has made it attractive to small satellite operators flying cubesats and LoRa is now routinely used to connect small ground based nodes to satellites, typically for remote sensor network deployments, and for satellite telemetry, e.g. by the Starlink constellation and in the TinyGS project.

In this project you would focus on innovative use cases for terrestrial IoT, e.g. asset tracking in remote terrestrial and maritime context.

Your work will be close to hardware, embedded systems, electronics and low level programming, and include radio networking and antenna optimization. Satellite constellations to work with may include LEO Lacuna and the more unusual geostationary Echostar, reachable from small battery driven devices over 36,000km.