Particle with only LoRa Networking

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Here are a few links I have found:

What's your judgement on LoraWAN for non cellular IoT networks

Living in Amsterdam, Netherlands and having backed & eagerly awaiting the Electron which ultimately relies on large telco’s, I came across LoraWan as an alternative data network: The Things Network in my city recently set up such a network at low cost, free to use and owned by the community. Check out their wiki to learn about boards supporting LoRa. Also note that The Things Network initiated a KickStarter campaign to fasttrack cheap availability of both gateways and nodes. A node does what the…

Hackster.io - controls a LoRa chip/antennae with a Particle Photon but does not use it to connect to Particle's Cloud network.
LoRa project with RN2483 and Particle Photon - Hackster.io

Particle Photon / Electron + RFN95W Long Range Radio

I have been testing some Hope RFM95W long range wireless radios and I’m seeing about 1 mile range capabilities. [image] I figure this would be a great way to add sensors to the Photon or Electron which can then push that data out over the Particle Cloud to the web. I’m building products that could use this radio along with the Photon or Electron so its in my best interested to just embed this radio into the same product PCB that will have the Photon or Electron on board also to keep cost down…

Library - RF95 - works with the RFM95 chip to send/receive data; but not Particle Cloud (obviously) RadioHead: RH_RF95 Class Reference