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Review of Related Projects and Products
Searched web, mastodon, and cruiser's forum for lora and lorawan related stuff.
Boat Specific
Commercial
Good article coving some commercial products: https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/gear/remote-boat-monitoring-tech-for-peace-of-mind-83272
BRNKL - barnacle: ~4000USD, no subscription, works with other brand sensors, video.
Boat Officer - https://shop.boatofficer.com/ Various boxes ~400 EUR LoRaWAN / TTN
Open source
Other LoRa messengers
https://www.msglab.co/project/lo-ra-msg Keyboard and screen, made from adafruit modules. Circuit Python. Author says: “The code is of veeery low quality. I can't stress this enough.”
meshtastic - Software project. Looks very popular, plenty of activity in discord. Many features. Mostly used on ESP32 devboards, a couple of nRF52 devices. Some boards on aliexpress come with it preflashed.
loratype https://loratype.org/ @loratype@fosstodon.org board with keyboard and screen Uses or will use meshtastic firmware I think.
Other Decentralised / Mesh messengers
- briar
- quaal
- irdest
- ssb