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📡 LoRaWAN Deployment Guide for Remote Apiary Sensors

Interactive 3D terrain map where placing LoRaWAN gateways and remote hive sensors shows simulated signal range and packet-delivery reliability changing with distance and obstacles.

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Place a LoRaWAN gateway on a mast above a hilly, wooded apiary and watch live packet-delivery reliability to scattered hive sensors change with distance, spreading factor, terrain and weather.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

A simplified log-distance link budget combines transmit power, path loss, terrain/canopy line-of-sight obstruction and weather attenuation into a per-hive packet delivery ratio, colour-coded on the connecting link.

🎮 How to Use

Raise the mast to clear obstructions, pick a spreading factor to trade range for airtime, dial in terrain roughness and weather, then scatter more hives and watch uplink packets succeed (green arc) or drop (red fizzle).

💡 Did You Know?

Because SF12 packets take roughly 19× longer to transmit than SF7, beekeepers usually reserve the highest spreading factors for their farthest, least frequently reporting out-apiaries to avoid duty-cycle limits.

⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 3D terrain map where placing LoRaWAN gateways and remote hive sensors shows simulated signal range and packet-delivery reliability changing with distance and obstacles.

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