Advanced LoRaWAN and IoT Services from an industry leader

Once the overall plan is established, we develop robust, detailed designs for your LoRaWAN network. We design networks that operate robustly and reliably in real-world environments, with RF signa; shadowing, varying uplink densities, sensor clustering, and your future expansion neds.

Gateway placement is key and will vary according to your requirements for coverage, capacity, resilience and potentially LoRaWAN-based positioning and location services. This is especially true in busy industrial or multi-building environments.

We use measured signal behaviour, path-loss models tuned to your sites, and employ practical on-site and in-field survey results to produce an optimal LoRaWAN design that is technically robust, and optimally engineered.

We also define backhaul requirements based on aggregated uplink and downlink traffic, power arrangements, redundancy options, antenna types, gateway selection and mounting and all environmental considerations.

Beyond RF, the our LoRaWAN design services include the logical architecture, Network Server selection, payload routing, integration with your application platforms, MQTT, Redis, IoT platform, with a security model and policy to bind everything together.

Professional LoRaWAN network design gives your installers and operational teams an independent and authoritative reference, ensuring that your LoRaWAN deployment works from day one.

Our solutions also support long-term scaling, for when you add new sensors, increase reporting frequency, extend coverage, and more – our validated and future-proof LoRaWAN network design will already account for your needs.

Through our decades of experience in RF planning, wireless network design and survey, our LoRaWAN surveys use innovative, specialised, proprietary and patent-pending tools and techniques that no other company can offer.

Using calibrated equipment that test and evaluate real-world LoRaWAN behaviour in your actual operating environments, rather than theoretical assumptions and “predictive” design tools, our surveys are employed both before deployment — to evaluate and verify feasibility – and after installation, to validate LoRaWAN coverage, capacity and reliability.

During the survey we walk or drive the site with specialist equipment that uses unique and patent-pending methods to evaluate uplinks and downlinks on the intended LoRaWAN channels. This are captured using multiple test locations for both sensors and gateways, enabling us to measure path losses, sensitivity thresholds, link margins, spreading factor impacts and realistic link budgets.

For large outdoor estates and campus environments, we assess terrain effects, both constructive and destructive to LoRaWAN operation, using both passive, active and Dynamic LoRaWAN Survey™ survey techniques.

Our findings are documented clearly and in detail using our proprietary evaluation and reporting methods.

Where possible, we compare survey data with predictive designs and proposed solutions for 360 degree evaluation.

In summary, LEVER’s unique, industry-leading LoRaWAN surveys are highly productive and cost-effective, replacing traditional laborious, time-consuming, piecemeal, and patchy survey methods and guesswork with truly unique cutting-edge methods that will give your project teams the confidence in the fitness for purpose and reliability of your LoRaWAN network.

Implementing LoRaWAN solutions can be complex, especially at scale.

A LoRaWAN Proof of Concept trial is an effective way to understand how the technology will perform on your own estate before committing to a wider rollout. Every environment behaves differently, and a small, well-designed trial allows you to evaluate LoRaWAN products and services, test coverage, sensor behaviour, data flow, intelligence acquired and the cost-benefits, in a controlled, low-risk manner.

We begin by defining the problems you want to solve and the outcomes you expect. From there, we design and deploy a compact LoRaWAN trial configured to reflect your intended use case as closely as possible. This provides immediate, real-world insight into signal reach, building penetration, uplink traffic, battery performance and how well the data integrates into your existing systems.

Throughout the trial, we monitor performance, highlight any limitations, and explain the options available to improve coverage, capacity or resilience. Our focus is always on openness and transparency.

A LoRaWAN PoC reduces uncertainty, validates assumptions and gives stakeholders confidence in the operational benefits. Many organisations use the results to inform investment decisions, shape procurement strategies and refine their long-term IoT strategy.

If you’re considering employing LoRaWAN but want assurance that it will work for you, LEVER’s LoRaWAN consulting services and Proof of Concept trials are the most practical, authoritative and cost-effective available.

Even with a solid design, LoRaWAN networks can develop issues — sometimes subtle and elusive.

LEVER’s LoRaWAN testing and troubleshooting work focuses on identifying the root causes, rather than treating the symptoms.

We examine every layer and aspect of your LoRaWAN design and implementation, from sensor selection, placement and configuration; the RF environment; gateway selection, installation and performance, LoRaWAN Network Server behaviour and the end application’s handling of payloads.

A typical engagement involves capturing live traffic, checking device activation flows, reviewing data-rate adaptation, inspecting gateway logs and much more, to determine how packets progress through the system. We test sensor behaviour under load, in low-signal scenarios and with interference, so that problems can be reproduced and properly understood.

Expert LoRaWAN testing and troubleshooting is not just about fixing what’s broken today; it should improve the long-term health and performance of your deployment.

After testing, our customers gain clear visibility into their LoRaWAN systems, their behaviour and the operational checks that need to be put in place.

The outcome is a stable, predictable and reliable LoRaWAN solution that performs consistently now and in the future.

We empower companies to unleash the potential of LoRaWAN to build secure and scalable IoT solutions, using innovative techniques that cut costs and yet increase your options for future expansion and development.

LEVER have very extensive and largely unrivalled experience in LoRaWAN technologies, systems integration, LoRaWAN network security and more, with the skills that few organisations can match.

We are innovative, multi-vendor, vendor-agnostic and experienced in a wide range of LoRaWAN products, gateways, servers, applications and IoT platforms.

Why not call us to find out how we can help you with your project, in Scoping, Planning, Design, Survey, Engineering, Testing, Auditing, Training and more?

Whilst there are alternative courses available on the web, and some powerful-looking online learning resources too, LEVER’s bespoke, focussed training courses deliver exactly what you need in a timely, highly interactive, cost-effective manner.

From our Internet of Things (IoT) briefings, 1-day LoRaWAN IoT Solutions course, 2-day LoRaWAN and IoT in Depth course, to our 3-day + Hands-on LoRaWAN Training labs, there’s something for everyone and every team in your organisation.

Get up-to-speed fast on LoRaWAN – whether you’re technical or not – with our LoRaWAN management briefings and technical training courses.