LoRa® on-premise - at Home and in the Office documentation
Conclusion
Congratulations for getting this far.
You have learned how to set up your own local LoRaWAN® network running independently in your own home. You could do the exact same thing in your office building, local coffee shop or anywhere you like. With LoRaWAN and its low power, wide area networking standard, you can solve real-world problems in so many different applications and settings: home and office; factory and farm; underground or on the road.
To summarize, in this hands-on lab you have:
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Installed the ChirpStack network server onto a Raspberry Pi with a shield for LoRaWAN to create a local gateway
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Configured the ChirpStack gateway with applications and device profiles
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Added at least one LoRaWAN end device to the gateway
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Joined the device(s) to the server, set up their measurements and dashboards
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Hooked up an application on ChirpStack to the IFTTT service so you can get email updates when your preferred device sends up data
Not bad for a day’s work!
Things You Can Do Next
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Connect other devices. If you want to use IFTTT then you’ll want to have each device in a separate application.
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Try out other ChirpStack integrations which include MQTT, Azure, AWS, GCP and quite a few others.
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Try out other IFTTT services (there are hundreds).
Further Reading
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To learn more about the Semtech Network Server, read this user guide
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If you want to know more about LoRaWAN, read this paper from Semtech.
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ChirpStack Server documentation here.
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To explore more devices, in the U.S. go to CalChip Connect, and in the U.K./EU go to the Connected Things Store.