The Abeeway LoRaWAN® Relay is able to manage communication of up to 15 devices located in isolated or hard to reach locations such as basements, metallic street cabinets, etc.

The Abeeway LoRAWAN® Relay operates from 3 user replaceable AAA lithium batteries, providing several years of operation depending on configuration settings and daily frame transmission count.

When planning for a public network roll-out, It is well known that coverage for the last 10% of devices easily adds 30% or more to the overall network CAPEX with the classic network densification approach. The additional CAPEX is due to additional network equipment, but also the need to secure additional rooftop hosting and power grid connections. Using battery powered relays to boost the signal from the hard-to-reach devices is a complementary approach that usually significantly optimizes the additional CAPEX, particularly when the density of such devices is low or when they are isolated in small groups.

The Relay itself behaves as a LoRAWAN® class A device with the extended MAC commands defined in the LoRa Alliance TS011-1.0.0 specification: it maintains a low-duty cycle wake-on-radio (WOR) channel, then dynamically switches frequency to collect uplinks from the managed devices and relays the frames to the main LoRaWAN® network. It also collect downlinks from the network and relays them to the relevant device. The relay is equipped with an internal omnidirectional antenna, so the managed devices can be positioned anywhere around it.

Last but not least: we support the Relay feature with the latest release of Actility’s ThingPark Enterprise platform and ThingPark Wireless platform.