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Dividing sensor network into multiple connections

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mrburnzie:
Hi everybody,

I have a project where I have parking sensors on the streets. The streets are very dense and full of traffic.
For now I'm using LoRaWAN to communicate with all the sensors. The gateways are on top of buildings.

My requirement is to have a stable network that is of course also low power (>10 yrs). Till now the gateway price and position was always a negative thing when it comes to the LoRaWAN system, especially talking parking sensors. My idea is to divide the connections into two parts.
The first part would be to change the sensors RF IC/module into something more generic (something like: https://datasheet.octopart.com/ADF7024BCPZ-Analog-Devices-datasheet-27843825.pdf) and the second part would be to create small gateways that are battery powered. The gateways would have the same RF IC/modules and an NB-Iot device that sends the data to the server (API).

What are the thoughts on this?

Also I found haystack, that mentions a lot of issues with LoRaWAN: https://medium.com/@patburns/announcing-haystacks-lorawan-replacement-program-1a72cb4cf201and that is one of the reasons I want to skip LoRaWAN if possible. It is a great protocol (I don't want to offend the LoRaWAN fanboys  :-DD ), but I want to look at other solutions too.

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