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Diagram showing LoRaWAN network architecture with sensors, gateways, and cloud

IoT Fundamentals8 April 2026·6 min read

What Is LoRaWAN? A Complete Guide to Long-Range IoT Connectivity

LoRaWAN powers most of the IoT deployments we build. A plain-English explanation of how it works, what the different pieces do, and why we chose it as the backbone of Connect IoT Group.

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Latest Articles

Supply chain with IoT trackers showing real-time location data on a dashboard

Asset Tracking5 min read

How IoT Asset Tracking Is Transforming Logistics and Supply Chain

Most logistics teams know roughly where their assets are. Roughly. IoT tracking closes that gap entirely, and Trackpac was built specifically to make it practical.

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LoRaWAN gateway mounted on a building with coverage area overlay

Infrastructure5 min read

Why Managed LoRaWAN Gateway Services Save You Time and Money

Running your own LoRaWAN gateways sounds straightforward until you are three months in and juggling firmware across forty sites. That experience is exactly why we built EdgePilot.

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Collection of different IoT sensors including temperature, GPS tracker, and air quality monitors

Hardware6 min read

How to Choose the Right IoT Sensors for Your Deployment

Picking the right sensor for an IoT project is less about specs and more about the environment it will live in. We break down the trade-offs that actually matter.

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Indoor floor plan showing WiFi positioning heatmap with device locations

Positioning7 min read

Indoor Positioning: WiFi vs BLE vs UWB Compared

GPS is great until you walk through a door. Inside buildings, you need a different approach, and the three main options each come with very different trade-offs.

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Layered diagram showing sensor, gateway, network server, and dashboard layers

IoT Strategy7 min read

Building an End-to-End IoT Solution: From Sensor to Dashboard

An IoT deployment has more moving parts than most people expect. A practical walkthrough of how each layer connects, what can go wrong, and how to get it right first time.

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LoRaWAN network server architecture showing device connections and data flow

Infrastructure5 min read

Self-Hosted vs Managed LoRaWAN Network Server: What We Learned Running Both

Before we built Chirpcloud, we ran our own LoRaWAN network servers. It worked, right up until it didn't. What we learned and why we moved to managed hosting.

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