A single-channel gateway is a LoRa device that acts as a gateway by forwarding LoRa packets to the network. As it's built using an SX1272/SX1276 instead of SX1301/SX1257, it's a lot cheaper than a full gateway making it a favorite choice for people to start with LoRaWAN. However, single-channel gateways are extremely limited compared to a real gateway. Single-channel gateways often lead to undesired design choices for solutions that you might build and can hurt the LoRaWAN server.

Hardware specification

• Generic Embedded board (RPI/OrangePi/BananaPi will be used)
• Addon SX1276 LoRa radio
• Onboard WIFI/Bluetooth 4.0
• GPIOs
• UART/SPI/USB/I2C

Other features

• Complete documentation including schematic, Firmware sources and sample programs.
• Runs on Embedded Linux firmware
• One month trial version of www.sliceiot.com will be provided for hosting IOT server
• The gateway supports data storage on built-in database
• The gateway can act as hotspot
• The gateway can push the data into any third party IOT servers like Thingspeak.
• SMS/Mail support for event triggering
• Can add 3G/4G facilities as external module with additional cost