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 - Head of Brand and Content
Shay Kettner is Head of Brand and Content at Digital Matter, with more than seven years of experience in IoT, GPS asset tracking, connected hardware, and technology marketing. She works closely with product, engineering, and commercial teams to translate complex technical concepts into clear, accurate content for business and industrial audiences. During her time at Digital Matter, Shay has contributed to the go to market strategy, positioning, and technical education of more than 40 IoT and asset tracking products deployed globally. Her areas of expertise include GPS tracking, IoT connectivity, battery powered asset tracking, remote monitoring, technical product education, and the adoption of IoT technologies across industries including logistics, agriculture, construction, fleet management, and industrial operations. Shay holds a Master of Commerce in Marketing with Distinction from Curtin University, where she was recognised as a top postgraduate student, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Media Studies from Goucher College. Focus areas: IoT and asset tracking, GPS tracking technology, IoT connectivity, connected hardware, battery powered tracking, remote monitoring, technical product education, IoT market adoption and industry use cases.