New LoRaWAN® Stack for Digital Matter Devices
Our mission is to help businesses connect, protect, and derive more value from their assets. As a leading global innovator, developer, and supplier of IoT solutions, we drive continuous innovation to enable our partners to deploy confidently at scale worldwide.
Digital Matter has completed a major update to the LoRaWAN® stack used throughout their LoRaWAN® IoT product line-up.
The original stack was based on the Semtech/StackForce reference code, heavily modified to improve power efficiency, robustness, and simplicity.
The new stack draws from this experience to produce high quality, low-latency implementation with world-class features and gives Digital Matter devices a competitive advantage in the LoRaWAN® market – especially when it comes to battery power.
“Our initial LoRaWAN® designs used a 3rd party module and stack, and we rapidly became frustrated with the lack of ability to cater to our needs,” says Ken Everett, Digital Matter CEO. “Commercially it is critical for us to be agile, and move quickly on getting support for new regions and features as we need them.
This is our stack, we own the IP and we have full control over it. In particular, we have made sure that the Digital Matter stack is well suited for our range of battery-powered devices and have paid particular attention to low-power operations”
Highlights include:
- Full 1.0 and 1.02 LoRaWAN® specification support, enabling LoRa Alliance Certification
- Full 1.1 LoRaWAN® specification support, which is new to the industry
- Intelligent sub-band probing for fast network joins in fixed channel regions
- Port 224 test interface implementation, to ease network and certification testing
- Extra low-latency frame repetition support, suitable for asset tracking
- Further power optimization and robustness improvements
- Simpler, more robust configuration
- Support for custom channel definitions in ABP installations
- Seamless connectivity across device reconfiguration and reboots
- Support for customization of ADR parameters, for faster data rate adaptation
- Improved transmit power management and Listen Before Talk
- Support for the new Russian region, and the ARIB radio regulations in Japan
Digital Matter will be on the LoRa Alliance stand at MWC in Barcelona in Feb 2019 – come and meet with us and check out our awesome lineup of devices.
Shay Kettner - Group Marketing Manager
Shay Kettner is the Group Marketing Manager at Digital Matter, with a strong academic and professional background in technology-driven markets including IoT, SaaS, and connected hardware. She holds a Master of Commerce in Marketing with Distinction from Curtin University, where she was recognized as a top postgraduate student, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Media Studies from Goucher College. At Digital Matter, Shay has spent more than six years working closely with product, engineering, and commercial teams, contributing to the go-to-market strategy and technical positioning of more than 40 IoT and asset tracking products deployed globally. Her experience centers on developing accurate, educational content that explains GPS, connectivity, and asset tracking concepts for business and industrial audiences. Focus areas: IoT and asset tracking, GPS and connectivity concepts, technical product education, IoT market adoption and use cases.