Category: IoT

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how you can integrate yours automated garage doors or gates with your domestic Internet of Things network using an ESP32 board (which I already used in many projects), in order to control them using your mobile smartphone instead of the proprietary RC remote, thus extending the operating […]

In the last months I’ve often talk about Internet of Things communication protocols like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Narrow Band IoT and, of course, LoRaWAN, explaining and analysing how they works and which are they strengths and disadvantages, as detailed in the following article. Among them, one of the most interesting one is, of course, LoRaWAN, which […]

It was December 2019 when I discovered a new interesting product by Heltec: the LoRaWAN Heltec CubeCell Capsule. At the time, I was fiddling with many LoRaWAN (what is LoRaWAN?) development boards, in particular the Pycom FyPy and LoPy 4, followed by the Heltec ESP32 Lora V2, which I used to create a single channel […]

Among the main Internet of Things Wireless communication protocols discussed in this article, the most used for low power and short range communication is Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), given its high efficiency and radio equipment low cost. Of course, it has many limitations in terms of data rate and operating range, but it is enough […]

Working with Internet of Things applications in 2020 almost surely means working with many Wireless communication protocols, based on different technologies. Nowadays, many home or industrial automation applications use Low Power and Long Range communication protocols to enable what we call Wireless Sensors Networks, which are the basis of the Internet of Things world. However, […]

If you have been fiddling with some Internet of Things development boards and Wireless Sensor Networks, you should already have heard of LoRaWAN communication protocol and other Wireless communication protocols. During my master degree, I worked many times with LoRaWAN protocol, both for my final thesis and some homemade projects, like the LoRaWAN Single Channel […]

Several years ago I began my adventure in the Wireless Sensors Network (WSN) world and, among the main existing wireless protocols, one of the most widely used is, of course, LoRaWAN. In this tutorial I going to show you how to build an outdoor Single Channel LoRaWAN Gateway based on one of the cheapest ESP32 […]

In this tutorial we will see how to build an home made weather station based on the cheapest Arduino compatible board with Wi-Fi connectivity: the ESP8266. We’ll create a solar powered weather station for monitor outside temperature, humidity, pressure and also Dew Point through the Bosch BME280 sensor. We will create a small Wireless Sensor […]