Episode 16

Building The World's Best LoRaWAN Field Test Device - Slaven - GLAMOS

Slaven Damjanović, CEO and founder of GLAMOS, talks about building the world’s most advanced LoRaWAN testing tool—starting from his own need for better field deployment visibility.

Overview

When deploying LoRaWAN devices in the field, understanding where your network truly reaches—and how different antennas or spreading factors impact connectivity—is critical. Slaven Damjanović created GLAMOS Walker as a virtual IoT sensor to do exactly that. What began as a personal tool to map coverage in Croatian vineyards quickly became a must-have in the Helium community, known for its intuitive design and pro-level insight.

Key Topics Covered

  • The origins of GLAMOS: solving the real-world problem of testing LoRaWAN deployments
  • How GLAMOS Walker acts like a virtual IoT sensor, simulating device behavior in the field
  • Use during the Helium boom: rapid demand from thousands of users trying to optimize their gateways
  • Understanding LoRaWAN data: RSSI, spreading factor, and antenna gain as key variables in deployment
  • Indoor coverage mapping: visualizing LoRaWAN signal strength room-by-room using 3D floorplans
  • Spreading factor tradeoffs: SF10 vs SF7 and the impact on battery life—up to 20x difference
  • Testing LoRaWAN devices before deployment: reducing risk by validating connectivity conditions
  • Pressure during Helium’s rise: why field testing tools became critical for hotspot optimization

Business Insights

From agriculture to utilities, Slaven explains how GLAMOS enables smarter, faster deployments of LoRaWAN devices. With built-in data visualization tools and a simple UI, the Walker is both beginner-friendly and essential for pros. The episode offers a masterclass in deployment optimization for anyone serious about making LoRaWAN data work in the real world.

Links

Slaven on LinkedIn

GLAMOS Website

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Transcript
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On this episode of MeteoScientific's

The Business of LoRaWAN, we’ll

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be talking with Slaven Damjanović,

the hardware entrepreneur and LoRaWAN

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veteran whose journey into LPWAN

began in:

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were still pretty fragmented

and not as well known as they are today.

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Like many of us, he started by trying

to solve a real world problem

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helping farmers monitor vineyards

using weather stations and soil sensors.

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But without a good way to measure

signal coverage in the field.

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He couldn't trust his deployments, so

he built the way that tool became GLAMOS.

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Now widely regarded as the most advanced

LoRaWAN tester on the market,

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think of it as a field ready device

that acts like a virtual IoT

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sensor testing, coverage,

analyzing, spreading factors,

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and mapping

signal strength indoors and out.

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What started as a personal utility

project exploded during the Helium

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network's rise,

when thousands of new users

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needed a way to test their gateways

and optimize antenna setups.

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Slaven’s device helped them understand

what was really going on

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with signal propagation,

and it remains a core tool for pros today.

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In this conversation, Slaven breaks down

how GLAMOS works, how it helps

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reduce deployment risk,

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and why understanding LoRaWAN's invisible

infrastructure, like RSSI,

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spreading factor, and antenna gain

is the key to building reliable systems.

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We also get into indoor coverage mapping,

use cases in agriculture and utilities,

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and his vision

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for how democratized tools can unlock

LoRaWAN's next wave of adoption.

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Let's dig in.

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Slaven, thanks

so much for coming on the show, man.

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Thank you for invite.

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I'm super excited to have you here.

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I know you're really busy right

now, and I want to hear about

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what's making you busy,

but maybe we start with what the GLAMOS is

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and why you developed it.

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So my background in the LoRaWAN world

starts in:

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So now seven years ago,

I started really early when the LoRaWAN

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networks were not really existing

and they were not stable.

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So we needed to deploy our own networks

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to do any kind of use cases to deploy

any kind of sensors.

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My first product was the system

for monitoring agricultural fields.

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So the base of that system

was a meteo station.

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So I developed meteo station,

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which is able to collect

a different environment information

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like temperature, humidity,

fair soil moisture, leak moisture.

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And for that

we needed to deploy our own gateway

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and then go to the wine yard and torture

to deploy some of these metro stations.

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Unfortunately, during that time,

even the gateways

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that were available on

the market were not high quality.

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So we were developing our own one,

or we were buying some kind of modules

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to create like a kit for the gateway.

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And the quality of that was not so good.

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Most of the time

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the reason for that is sometimes

just bad soldering and things like that.

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So we needed to find solution.

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How to, know if network is good.

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So for my personal needs,

I wanted to create some tool

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that will help me to understand

if network is available.

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How good signal is,

can I somehow improve that signal,

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or can I somehow

improve the complete coverage?

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And that is the reason why I started

development of the class.

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So GLAMOS is the tool for testing

LoRaWAN networks.

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It is currently the most advanced tool,

in the market You can find.

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This is how it looks like.

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So this is like a small, mobile phone,

I would say.

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So what it does

is it has a couple of buttons.

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It has a display.

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You can have different antennas.

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So what you are doing,

you just go around and you are

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pressing buttons,

generating a new message transfer.

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And based on that you can understand.

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Do you have network coverage,

how good signal it is, how many gateways

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your coverage where the gateways are

the same as the Hotspots.

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So just the different, name.

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And when I started, I did that only

for myself because I had need for that.

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And during that time, after I developed

some first versions, Helium appeared.

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Then Helium started to grow.

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And of course, Helium

is based on the LoRaWAN LoRa technology.

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So our device was really popular

in community

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because people were using our device

to test their network,

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to test their coverage and to understand

should you deploy your Hotspot

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as a specific location

or, reason for that is because

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with better coverage, with better network,

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you can earn more coins

for creating coverage all around.

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So that is the reason why people in Helium

community use our device.

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So device is from the beginning.

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It's created to be for,

let's say, beginners.

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So people who were not from

the LoRaWAN world could easily,

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use device, start testing network

and to understand everything about Lora.

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That's right.

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So it's an interesting history

as you started.

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I think it was.

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Yeah.

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A 2018, 2019.

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And so you're coming at it

because you were into LoRaWAN

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early, almost in university

or straight out of university.

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Yeah.

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And so you got this idea like, hey,

I want to help map

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the coverage on, on farms in agriculture.

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You build this device.

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I've got mine here.

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Most of the folks who are listening to

this are not seeing the video,

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so I'll describe it.

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It's about the size of a pack of cards,

maybe elongated.

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It's got four buttons

on it. Little screen.

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You can attach different antennas to it.

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So you really get going in 2019

and then in:

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The Helium craze hits

and is probably worth it, Slaven

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you and I know this

because we lived through it,

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but for a lot of folks

who are in the LoRaWAN world,

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they didn't treat Helium as serious

at first or ignored.

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It didn't pay much attention to it.

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But to describe the pressures

of the market on deploying what Helium

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calls Hotspots

and what we in LoRaWAN call gateways

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was incredibly intense.

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So I'll give an example.

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In spring to early summer of 2021,

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if you could deploy a Helium Hotspot,

a gateway on a mountain

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that had line of sight

to lots of other Hotspots,

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I think mine were earning about $18,000

a month.

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And so in crypto tokens.

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And so you take those tokens,

you could sell them on the open market.

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Pretty straightforward.

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But it was an enormous pressure

to deploy Hotspots.

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And you were in the scene.

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You'd been on the scene for a year or two.

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And you had this testing device

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that allowed people to see,

is there coverage here already?

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And from what I could tell as an outsider,

I'm not part of the GLAMOS team.

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But there was this

almost insatiable desire for people to buy

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anything related to Helium

and something that could help them

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test their potential coverage

and really test their antennas,

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which is what I think most people used

this for.

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Was was pretty crazy.

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Can you describe to me what it was like

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What was the demand like?

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It was a really crazy time

after the COVID time.

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What happened in the world

market was that

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when electronics chips

production completely,

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I would not say failed,

but everything changed.

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So the demand increased,

production decreased.

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So even in the Helium market,

in the nearly short time,

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in like two months, mostly many,

many new people came to the community.

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They heard about Helium.

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They heard that you can earn some money

through the Helium coin.

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And, everyone wanted to get their Hotspot

to, to invest in that.

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That was cost of around

500 or $600 or euros in that time.

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And of course, in that time,

I think that only maybe two

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producers were on the market,

were producing and selling at Hotspots.

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And of course, they could not produce

enough in that short time.

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So what happened in that time?

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The people who got inside the arena early,

like in January or February,

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and what they did, they they were able

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to pay off all investment in like 15 days.

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So I know the guy who bought like,

100 Hotspots, he,

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he deployed that in Europe,

in one country, in one city.

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And he paid off the whole investment

in one month.

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So that that was the really crazy time.

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Community was growing a lot.

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I mean, really short time.

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And there were many different things

that should be covered.

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Base of the Helium is LoRaWAN.

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And but from the beginning

people were forgetting that part,

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because without LoRaWAN

nothing could work,

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because based on the Helium

and the idea of the Helium was

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you should create coverage

for the LoRaWAN network

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and you will earn cryptocurrency

for that, service you are providing.

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So you are giving away

your LoRaWAN courage to earn some money.

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And the people just heard about

crypto part and they just came there.

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They said, you just need to

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plug your Hotspot in the socket

and everything will start work.

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And then when

a lot of people got their Hotspot,

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it didn't work and it didn't work.

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But yeah, they couldn't understand

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why they are not earning

as much as some other people.

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So what they did,

they were looking for a tool or the

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for help which can give them information.

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Where is the problem?

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How can they improve their setup.

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So they were buying our device,

our GLAMOS device

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and using our application because

we also have all our application parallel.

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So they would take our device,

go on location

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where they want to deploy their Hotspot

and use our device for testing.

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Our device allows you to attach

different antennas.

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So to to maximize your earning,

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you need to find the best

fit of your antenna with your location.

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So people were testing different antennas.

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For example, you can buy a few, three, 4

or 5 different antennas,

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test each on the field and you can

then get some results, compare them,

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analyze them to understand what's going on

and what what should you do.

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So yeah, that's that period from the,

let's say April:

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until April 2022 was was really crazy

until the market settled down.

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Yeah. Okay.

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So that's a good background

on kind of this nice lucky piece where you

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launched this thing where you like, hey,

I've got this really cool LoRaWAN tester.

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Helium comes along, helps your business

blow up, and then at the end of it, you're

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left with the ability or the experience

of having made a bunch of these testers.

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shipped them out to people

who have really no idea about LoRaWAN.

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And you've got a pretty cool device

at the end of it

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that's actually super useful

to LoRaWAN professionals.

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So the way I think about it

now, and you've done some stuff that, as

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far as I can tell, hasn't been done

with any other field test device.

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I think I got one of the early Adeunis

ones before I knew about GLAMOS,

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and I would walk around with that thing,

but it's just got a button

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and there's not much

that you can learn from it.

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If you're not a super nerd,

whereas with yours it's it's much easier.

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So walk me through for folks

who are in the profession of LoRaWAN,

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what they might use it for,

give me a couple different case

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studies or ideas

that a pro would use this for right now.

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And we can we can set aside

the the crypto aspect of Helium is

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how does this get used in the

in the world of LoRaWAN.

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So idea from the beginning

of development of the GLAMOS

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was to use it

for all of different use cases.

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As I mentioned, for my personal use case,

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it was the way to go in the field

to to test in a specific location.

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Is network available? How good signal is?

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Will my device be able to communicate

to transfer measuring data

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and to to be able to understand

what parameters

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my device will use

so I can calculate battery life.

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So these are

some things that are important.

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So there there is the one parameter called

spreading factor or data rate.

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So that is the same thing

that is really important for LoRaWAN

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communication

because based on that parameter

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your device will work on in

different conditions.

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So higher spreading factor means

that you will have a more robust signal

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that you will have a longer distance

communication, but your battery will

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will not last

as long as on a lower spreading factors.

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How big difference is?

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It is almost 20 times

difference in battery life.

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Dang, that's a lot.

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Okay, so yeah I mean for for pros

listening to this are like yes of course.

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But for me as a,

you know, relative neophyte to to LoRaWAN,

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a 20 x difference in battery

life is a big deal.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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So it it is difference

like if one on spreading factor

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seven, for example, your device can work

ten years on one battery

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without recharging on higher

spending factors as well.

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Or in US it's SF10,

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the biggest

if you will work maybe one year.

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So it is the huge difference

if you are deploying your IoT solutions.

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Really you need to come in the field

after six months to change your battery.

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So that was really important.

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And for that use case I needed this tool.

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Now some other use cases are also during

the deployment of your gateway.

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So Hotspot after you install that Hotspot

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you mentioned shield

or inside of the building

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or location

that you have already available,

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you can take this device

and just walk around the building

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or walk around that area,

or drive around to create coverage map.

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So based on this coverage map,

you can get visualization of your coverage

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so you can visualize

where your network is available,

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how good signal is,

what can you expect based on that.

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Because for every area LoRaWAN signal can

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I would say work differently,

but it's not how it will work,

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but it's how signal and the electro

magnetic base will propagate in that area.

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So because of that,

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it's really important to understand

what's going on in the field.

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So this really unlocks

some of the deep parts of of LoRaWAN,

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kind of the, the nerd business for folks

who might understand

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the impact of all of that

to, to their businesses.

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So I'm thinking if I'm using this, setting

this up, is

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I put a gateway where I think the gateway

is going to be pretty good,

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and then I go around with my GLAMOS

and I fire off

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a series of packets

at different spreading factors,

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and then that GLAMOS, I can then

visualize the data later and say, okay,

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for this place, I'm going to need to go

to spreading factor ten for that place.

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I can set it SF seven.

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What else can I learn from

from going around and using using GLAMOS?

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You can understand also, for example,

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at some locations

you will have possibility

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and you will get proof for that,

that you can use all spreading factors.

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But of course

every time you want to use a LoRaWAN

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also during the testing

you can use different antennas.

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So sometimes in some areas

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you'll have some small antenna

that is integrated inside of your sensor.

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And with this GLAMOS device,

you can confirm that, for example,

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you will not have coverage

with small antenna,

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but if you attach the bigger antenna

you will understand.

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Okay, but I now have different coverage.

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So just to understand, for people

who are not inside of this

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telecommunication,

a real antenna is just a piece of metal.

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I would say that is just increasing

the signal quality.

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The bigger antennas, you can increase,

your antennas, you go more.

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So it's not that signal does not exist

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at some location, but it's just about

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you don't have high enough gain

to increase it.

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So you can so carry it.

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And just to clarify, our device

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is like little sensor

that you will deploy.

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For example

you want to deploy your water meter

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and you don't know if signal is available.

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So our device is acting like

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it is water meter at that location.

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And that is an additional use case.

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Some of our customers are using device

when they are deploying water meters.

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In a lot of cases, water

meters are underground.

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So they are inside of some holes

and you don't know if a signal is

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available there because above the ground

a signal may be used there.

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But when you get underground,

a situation is completely different

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and you don't want to spend few hours

to install this water meter underground,

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or to wait couple of hours for water meter

to send for your messages.

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But you take this device,

get on the field,

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send a couple of messages underground,

and in 1 or 2 minutes

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you can get all informations

that are required.

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One of the features of device is also

you can just set it.

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Okay, send me every 30s messages

and just put it underground.

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And then you can put a metal lid above

and let it send for example few minutes.

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Because all these things can help you

to speed up your deployment.

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Now you understand okay,

I don't show network coverage here.

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Okay.

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Maybe we need to deploy our gateways

somewhere closer

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or add

additional network or something like that.

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So device can be used for people

who want to deploy their Hotspots,

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their gateways want to deploy

and to increase network coverage.

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It can be used for people

who are deploying IoT solutions.

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So different sensors, metro stations.

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I know that you were doing something

about measuring soil moisture.

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So you can also do that.

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You can get in the field to understand

do you have courage?

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And for people who are developing

also devices

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because you can develop device

but you in some cases

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you are getting some false positive

or false negative results.

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So this device can be used as a reference.

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So you take this device,

go somewhere or inside

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of some kind of laboratory office

and make some kind of testings.

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And then you can compare,

results of your device with,

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with this device to understand

what's going on.

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Sometimes you will understand, okay.

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Signal quality from our sensor device

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is much worse compared to our device.

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We need to do something

about improving our antenna,

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our improving our hardwares

and and things like that.

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Got it.

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Okay.

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So that's spreading factor,

antenna, location.

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And then you mentioned one thing

that I think it's important

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to go into a little bit more,

which is this indoor mapping coverage.

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And I also think that that's something

pretty special to GLAMOS.

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Let's walk me through what that is.

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So of, as I said, spreading factor

antenna, really two huge things.

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But when you get near the building

or inside of the building,

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it's completely different game

compared to open field testing an open

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field using LoRaWAN,

because when you are inside

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of the building, walls

are, created from different materials.

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So some walls are created.

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If it is wood,

that probably will not create a problem.

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But a lot of buildings in the world

have a lot of metal,

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and walls are from the concrete, so metal

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and combination of concrete

and metal can really kill the signal.

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Not not decrease,

but really kill completely signal.

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For example, we do the testing

on one side of the building.

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You have really excellent signal quality

on other side of the building.

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There is no signal like the reason for

that is because that building,

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which has a lot of metal

inside of the walls, it is bit taller.

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So a lot of different parameters.

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So what we did, we saw that it is problem.

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And the biggest problem with LoRaWAN

and with this

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is that you cannot visualize

electromagnetic waves.

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or around our heads or around our bodies.

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So signals from the mobile phone signals

from the different sensors,

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so many, many different

electronics are going for us.

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We cannot visualize that.

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And that was the problem with LoRaWAN,

because people could not

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understand,

could not visualize how LoRaWAN works.

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And what does it mean to have a better

signal or worse or worse signal?

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In LoRaWAN world, there is one parameter

that's really important,

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and it's called RSSI So it's a shortcut

for the received signal strength index.

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So that is the index that can help you

to understand

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to put that signal quality on some level

or in some table, let's say.

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So at the more positive RSSI is,

that means the signal is is better.

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And now okay, you can see that this number

but still you don't understand.

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You still need to compare

some numbers in had.

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And the reason why we created heat

map for our coverage

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is to help people to visualize

and to understand.

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LoRaWAN now looking

just heat map looking different colors.

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You can easily understand

what does it mean to have a better

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signal, worse signal

and and things like that.

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On other side,

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when you get inside of the building,

situation is completely different.

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you kind of have a good signal,

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in the next room

you can have worse signal.

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In the next room

you can have again, good signal.

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It's really hard to compare everything.

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To understand everything.

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What we did, we created application.

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We created a tool again that can help you

to create your building in 3D view.

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So you can do that easily.

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You like in one minute

and you take almost one hours

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and walk around inside of the building.

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So what you are doing inside of

the building is just triggering

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message transmission.

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So you are just sending new messages

and when you get back to grandma's

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application, you already have floor plan

with walls and everything.

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And now you get the heat map.

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Now you are looking just cause on the heat

map you can understand

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okay, in this area

I can see that signal is better

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and this area signal is worse

or there is no signal.

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Or for example, the use case, for example

I like to showcase to

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people is make testing

with for example spreading factor.

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So the lowest spreading factor

the the most optimal I would say

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and use some higher spreading factor

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and then compare these two heat maps.

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So for most people spreading factor,

sometimes it's hard to compare.

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It's fine to understand when you look heat

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maps, you just put it like side by side.

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And what you get is understand

based on the color.

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Okay, this color is red, this is orange,

this is blue.

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There is no color here.

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So red means it's hot. A signal is good.

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Orange means it's, average, either side.

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Blue means signal is weak.

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If you don't have any color,

it means there's no signal.

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So it's important to understand that

spreading factor.

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Or you can get at least some signal,

at least some communication.

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Even if signal is bad on other side

you don't have any communication at all.

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So these are important things

to understand. Rad.

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It's super cool

to have such a capable tool out there,

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and I want to make sure that the

the world of LoRaWAN knows about it.

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I guess the last question

I've got is, at this point,

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with all of these people using this tool,

you've got to have as good

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a data set as anyone about how different

LoRaWAN sensors are received.

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Do you have any plans for anything

to do with that data,

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or is that just kind of sitting there

and you're like, I'm going to see,

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you know, what I end up doing with this

or improve the tool.

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Like what's

what's kind of next for GLAMOS.

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So we develop different tools

inside of application device itself.

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I would say it's pretty standard.

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It has the most features

that most of the customers really need.

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we have different analytics tools.

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So you can already generate some reports.

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But we are now

working on improvement of the indoor map.

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So indoor part testing we'll see.

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Can we may be extended to to some other

technologies.

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Also you asked about data at this moment.

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Most of these data are data owned by

customers, by our users who own devices.

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So we don't have right to to use that.

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We call with some kind of

of their permission.

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But yeah, we

we already did some kind of analytics

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and we have pretty good understanding

about how LoRaWAN works.

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And of course we will see how can we

integrate that knowledge in maybe

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kind of blog posts or some new features

that can be added inside.

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When when I started

development of the device, idea was okay,

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I want to make device which is able

to change the spreading factors

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you mentioned are the only device

that was the only device on the market.

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When we started doing this,

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and it is not good enough because

you cannot change spreading factor.

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And as I said it's that

that's the most important parameter.

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Also they have fixed antennas.

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You can't change antenna.

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So two parameters that are important

you cannot adjust.

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I just want to make it sure

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to be able to modify these two parameters.

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And now at this moment after sometime we

we shared

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cooperation with different companies

in the, in the market.

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offering tools

that are doing some kind of the testing

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about what we did is

we have really deep knowledge in LoRaWAN.

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So we put that inside of our device.

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So we have different modes.

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For example, it's hard to get in the field

and to click the buttons million times,

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or to use it with wet hands

or to touch display screens.

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People just want to be able

to click one button and get a lot of data.

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So we enable that inside of of this device

and inside of this application.

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So idea is of course to listen

for our customers, for users.

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Do they have some kind of requests

for some new features

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and in that case

we will develop some new things.

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But at this moment looking what few bits

we are getting.

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This device is definitely 99% covered

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with all features that most of the users

need.

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Yeah, now it's great.

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I think it lives up to the, the tagline of

the world's best LoRaWAN network tester.

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So Slaven super well done in this thing.

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I like the thing.

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I use it when I'm going

to check out a new deployment.

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So I appreciate you putting

in all the time to making it.

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And thanks so much for coming on and

making the time today to tell us about it.

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It's great to to share some information,

Helium, and whole community.

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I think it has huge potential

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because many different companies, many

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different communities were growing for

they are more mature.

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I would say

it's still they have less infrastructure.

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So Helium has huge potential

because infrastructure is there,

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network is available.

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It's pretty cheap, I would say, or not.

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Not so expensive.

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So only thing is that people need to start

deploying different things.

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So they need to find use case.

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They need to find some problems in their,

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neighborhood in in their house homes

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to deploy different sensors

maybe, and start doing that.

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And that will lead to next, growth

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of the of the community,

similar as it was before.

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I believe that IoT and deployment of IoT

can lead the new growth.

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Yeah.

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Now it's it's a super cool ecosystem

to be a part of.

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Ripping Slaven.

Thanks so much, man. Thanks. Coming up.

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Thank you for time.

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That's it for

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this episode of The Business of LoRaWAN.

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I built this for you.

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The one person in about 100,000

who actually has an interest

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in how this tiny little slice of the world

works.

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Of course, this isn't just about you

and me, it's about everyone and LoRaWAN

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and how we can work together

to make an exceptional thing.

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LoRaWAN is a dispersed community

with little pockets of knowledge

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all around the world,

and most of them don't

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talk to each other as much as I'd like.

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So the first and best thing

we can do to make this show better

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is to get more guests

on who I don't even know exist.

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I want to talk to strangers.

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Strangers who are your friends.

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Please

introduce me to the most rad LoRaWANeer

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you know or point to my way, or help

reach out and give me a name.

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When it comes to running down

LoRaWAN guests, I can track a falcon

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on a cloudy day

if you can remember, metsci.show,

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you can find me that's METSCI.SHOW

That's MetSci.show.

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Okay, so sharing knowledge

by getting great guests on is the first

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and by far the most important thing

we can do to make this better.

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The next best thing for the show to do

is the usual stuff.

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Subscribe to the show, give it a review,

share it in your corner of the world.

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Again, that's M-E-T-S-C-I.S-H-O-W

Finally, if you want to support the show

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financially, you can do that

over at support.metsci.show.

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You'll see options there

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If you really like this show

as well as an ongoing subscription option.

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If you think the show is worth supporting

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sign up for a MeteoScientific account

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get your first 400 data credits for free.

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That's enough to run a sensor for

about a year if you're firing every hour.

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The show is supported by a grant

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and produced by Gristle King, Inc..

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I'm Nik Hawks.

I'll see you on the next show.

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