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Tim Cooper

Tim Cooper
Principal Applications Engineer

Recent Posts

Taking Your Application Beyond the Sidewalk: The Longest Range Mode of Amazon’s New Protocol, Amazon Sidewalk

Posted by Tim Cooper on Mar 28, 2023 6:04:00 AM

Amazon Sidewalk is enabling new services to help benefit everyone, from locating lost items to extending the range of smart devices and beyond by harnessing the limitless possibilities of developer and community innovation.

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Tags: LoRa, LoRa Developers, Smart Homes & Buildings, Smart Cities, Smart Homes, AWS, Amazon Sidewalk

Certifying an End Device for LoRaWAN®: European Sub-Bands

Posted by Tim Cooper on Jul 19, 2021 12:00:00 AM

The European radio regulations can be ambiguous when it comes to certifying and understanding LoRaWAN® network operation. Here we take a look at how an end device built with a LoRa® chipset should be certified for regulatory compliance, as well as the duty-cycle capacity we can expect from an end device deployed in a practical LoRaWAN network.

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Tags: LoRa, Wireless RF, LoRaWAN, Certification, Regulatory Compliance, EU, RF

Introducing Semtech’s PCB Design Review Service

Posted by Tim Cooper on Apr 27, 2020 12:00:00 AM

 

Would you like a free PCB design review from Semtech?

The Semtech PCB Design Review Service is designed to facilitate the development of LoRaWAN®-based hardware for the deployment of successful solutions.

Our engineers will review your schematic and PCB design to help you avoid common design pitfalls. We will even provide you with

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Tags: LoRa, LoRa Developers, LoRaWAN Deployment

Long Range with LoRa®

Posted by Tim Cooper on Mar 28, 2019 10:12:55 AM

How do we increase the range of a radio link? Here we look at the constraints at work when building a real-world long range radio link. We’ll show how and why LoRa Technology is the right choice for designing a radio link where range matters.

Long Range and Low Consumption in the Real World

How do we maximize the range of a low power radio link in a practical application? Assuming that we do not want to incur the hardware and recurring operating costs together with the high energy consumption of a Cellular solution, this means finding a solution in the license-free ISM band.

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Tags: Wireless RF