Long-range (LoRa) radio technologies have recently gained momentum in the IoT landscape, allowing low-power communications over distances up to several kilometers. As a result, more and more LoRa networks are being deployed. However, commercially available LoRa devices are expensive and propriety, creating a barrier to entry and possibly slowing down developments and deployments of novel applications. Using open-source hardware and software platforms would allow more developers to test and build intelligent devices resulting in a better overall development ecosystem, lower barriers to entry, and rapid growth in the number of IoT applications. Toward this goal, this paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of KRATOS, a low-cost LoRa platform running ContikiOS. Both, our hardware and software designs are released as an open- source to the research community.
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@article{arxiv.1809.04143,
title = {KRATOS: An Open Source Hardware-Software Platform for Rapid Research in LPWANs},
author = {Rajeev Piyare and Amy L. Murphy and Michele Magno and Luca Benini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.04143},
year = {2018}
}