TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Aref, Mohamed A1 - Sikora, Axel T1 - Free space range measurements with Semtech Lora™ technology T2 - 2014 2nd International Symposium on Wireless Systems within the Conferences on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems N2 - Although short range wireless communication explicitly targets local and very regional applications, range continues to be an extremely important issue. The range directly depends on the so called link budget, which can be increased by the choice of modulation and coding schemes. Especially, the recent transceiver generation comes with extensive and flexible support for Software Defined Radio (SDR). The SX127x family from Semtech Corp. is a member of this device class and promises significant benefits for range, robust performance, and battery lifetime compared to competing technologies. This contribution gives a short overview into the technologies to support Long Range (LoRa ™), describes the outdoor setup at the Laboratory Embedded Systems and Communication Electronics of Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, shows detailed measurement results and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of this technology. Y1 - 2014 UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6954616 SN - 978-1-4799-6722-3 (elektronisch) SB - 978-1-4799-6722-3 (elektronisch) SN - 978-1-4799-6721-6 (CD) SB - 978-1-4799-6721-6 (CD) U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/IDAACS-SWS.2014.6954616 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/IDAACS-SWS.2014.6954616 SP - 19 EP - 23 PB - IEEE ER -