Overview of this Activity

The goal of this activity is to introduce the extensive services of the ThingPark Community (TPC) LPWAN platform, the Arduino development environment (Arduino IDE 2.0), a user-friendly integrated development environment (IDE), and an IoT module (Arduino MKR WAN 1310).

This exercise will enable you to use the Arduino IDE with an Arduino MKR WAN 1310 board to send a LoRaWAN® message to the Actility TPC platform. This exercise does not require prior knowledge of the Arduino environment or prior experience working with TPC. A deep understanding of computer hardware or software development is not required to successfully perform the activity.

This cookbook will, in a nutshell, demonstrate how to set up a whole LoRaWAN® solution using free services without any prior experience. Additionally, you can use any LoRaWAN® compatible sensor in this activity with only minor modifications.

The solution works as follows: When the LoRaWAN® packet sent using your IoT device is received by the LoRaWAN® gateway managed by TPC, it is transferred to the TPC LoRaWAn Network Server, and then relayed by the network server to the backend application. These packets sent by you can be monitored by connecting to the Webhook site on your web browser.

In this activity, you are going to perform two sets of steps. The first set is to prepare the environment, and the second set is to monitor the LoRaWAN® packets sent by Arduino MKR WAN 1310.

Implementation Approach