[dopidopHN]

Correct. It’s a low bandwidth/ long distance RF protocol over specifics bands. It’s also kinda proprietary.

[westmeal]

Not super familiar with LoRa, can you explain what makes it properietary? Is it the protocol?

[jacquesm]

They've taken out a bunch of patents for instance:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160094269A1/en

[KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9]

check out ham radio WSPR for an indication of the sorts of things that can be done

[BenjiWiebe]

WSPR is very different than LoRa. WSPR is usually used at HF, and has very low bandwidth. LoRa is used at UHF frequencies, and has very wide bandwidth, as it's a spread spectrum modulation scheme.

There's more differences but those are the ones relevant to this discussion.