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#443 – An Interview with JP Norair
Welcome JP Norair of Haystack Technologies!
- Chris knows JP from the Consulting Forum. Want to join us? Apply here
- 0h 0m 40s
- LoRa
- 0h 1m 49s
- Chirp Spread Spectrum
- 0h 1m 53s
- LoRaWAN
- 0h 3m 16s
- The standard initially came from IBM
- 0h 3m 23s
- Formed the LoRa alliance
- 0h 3m 34s
- Comcast strategy shifting
- 0h 4m 9s
- Sigfox was a competitor
- 0h 4m 55s
- Senet
- 0h 6m 53s
- Campus deployments
- 0h 8m 44s
- Moving data on LoRaWAN
- 0h 9m 25s
- Was probably meant for meter reading
- 0h 10m 17s
- Haystack
- 0h 11m 30s
- DASH7
- 0h 11m 35s
- Savi
- 0h 11m 58s
- Asset tracking on a global scale
- 0h 12m 49s
- Exposed to technology standardization
- 0h 15m 43s
- iso18000-7
- 0h 15m 59s
- People who are contacting are using LoRaWAN and it hasn’t worked
- 0h 20m 11s
- QOS means there are packets that are received correctly
- 0h 21m 21s
- LPWAN is not that mature
- 0h 22m 58s
- Borrowing from space based telemetry
- 0h 23m 6s
- Claude Shannon – Information theory
- 0h 24m 15s
- There is built in error correction in the LoRa hardware
- 0h 27m 43s
- Matt Knight episode from ToorCamp
- 0h 27m 55s
- Alphabet soup of standards
- 0h 32m 26s
- One of them specifies a convolutional code
- 0h 32m 35s
- Soft decision
- 0h 33m 39s
- Proprietary stuff sweetens the deal
- 0h 35m 56s
- LDPC error correction
- 0h 36m 9s
- Startups are willing to take a risk
- 0h 40m 25s
- Bigger companies are worried about failing
- 0h 40m 33s
- Working with startups
- 0h 41m 52s
- Larger businesses are willing to pay for time and materials
- 0h 42m 1s
- Payment on milestones
- 0h 42m 34s
- Selling hardware allows you to put cost into it
- 0h 44m 3s
- Mobile vs fixed
- 0h 45m 22s
- Link budget
- 0h 49m 7s
- ITU region 2
- 0h 49m 50s
- RSSI
- 0h 51m 41s
- Fresnel zone
- 0h 55m 33s
- SolPad
- 0h 58m 33s
- Have to be ready to bounce between full time and consulting
- 0h 58m 50s
- Not a solar company
- 0h 59m 36s
- Battery backed storage and conversion solutions
- 0h 59m 40s
- John from Cree
- 1h 1m 24s
- Doing GaN inverters
- 1h 1m 28s
- Smaller inductors
- 1h 2m 9s
- Roof mounted inverters and batteries
- 1h 3m 15s
- Shahriar talking RF
- 1h 7m 13s
- Trying to broaden expertise
- 1h 7m 18s
- Dash7 over a wire
- 1h 9m 6s
- RS485
- 1h 9m 33s
- Sometimes wireless feels like it’s actually more reliable than something like RS485
- 1h 12m 8s
- JP has a person site called Indigresso
- 1h 19m 3s
- Using MATLAB to simulate antennas
- 1h 20m 28s
- Johanson antennas
- 1h 23m 1s
- Making a different frequency antenna by adding extra wire
- 1h 24m 11s
- Start with a higher freq chip antenna and modify it downward
- 1h 24m 25s