The LoRa base station.

On a LoRa deployment, one on-site base station carries many sensors and forwards their readings to the platform.

1 · What it does

A LoRa base station, or gateway, sits on the site and listens to every LoRa sensor within range. It aggregates their readings and forwards them to the Augos platform over its own backhaul. The sensors talk only to the base station, so they stay low-power and need no SIM of their own.

2 · Why it matters

One base station covers many sensors across a site, so adding another sensor adds no connectivity cost. Coverage is under your control rather than dependent on a mobile network, which suits farms, plants and campuses with many points or patchy signal.

3 · LoRa or cellular

Where a site has many sensors or wants its own coverage, LoRa with a base station is usually the better fit. Where sensors are few and scattered, cellular NB-IoT avoids running a gateway. See Connectivity for the full comparison.