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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. It has telemetry and serial modules, and code for common environmental sensors already. GPLv3, but CLA demands an exclusive licence!!! https://cla-assistant.io/meshtastic/protobufs#recreate-this-contributor-license-agreement

Meshcom Seems to be a verion of meshtastic configured for amateur radio use.

loratype https://loratype.org/ @loratype@fosstodon.org board with keyboard and eink screen Uses or will use meshtastic firmware I think. E22 module, with Semtech's SX1262 or SX1268 RF chip I think. ESP32

Armachat Near no documentation. Dev maybe continued in a fork for RPi pico. Keyboard, screen https://github.com/bobricius/armachat SAMD21G18 for desktop version (pocket version use SAMD21E18 RFM95 Not maintained for 2 years.

disaster.radio: ESP32 + SX1276. Arduino framework. Web interface over wifi or app to bluetooth. LoRaLayer2 mesh protocol

Other Decentralised / Mesh messengers

  • briar
  • quaal
  • irdest
  • ssb

Relevant Mesh Protocols

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