LoRa modems are all black boxes, available only from a single company. Meanwhile, IEEE 802.11ah, a.k.a. Wi-Fi HaLow, is an open standard that you can download without a fee: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9363693

That is all.

Edit: fixed terminology

  • rah@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    the radios are cheap and work incredibly well

    But they’re proprietary. Which is bad.

    Edit: and to be clear, it’s not just that the radios are proprietary black boxes, which is bad, it’s also that by using them, you make it necessary for all other parties you communicate with to use matching proprietary black boxes, which is bad squared.

    there isn’t much of a reason for someone to homebrew their own

    Especially when there’s an existing, open standard for communication using the same principles.