Facility & Industrial LoRaWAN Design Guide

Facility rooms

Plant rooms combine rope leak, spot probes, door contacts, and tank level on one gateway. Map zones and tray names before you paste decoders. The facility solution page is the category view; product pages own mounting FAQs.

Keep radios dry. Only ropes and probes enter wet areas. Correlate door opens with leak or temperature events in application logic — the contact decoder only reports open/closed.

Industrial utilities

Flow and pressure kits trend branches and headers without new copper to every gauge. Zero after fill. Do not claim custody transfer unless the quote includes the accuracy class.

Industrial solution scenes link the instrument pages. Paste PS-260 and PS-270 profiles separately. Leak ropes on the same application still use the rope decoder.

Commissioning checklist

Gateway survey, OTAA join, one profile per model, frame-counter monitoring, and a 100-unit trial before branding. EU868/US915 unless the quote says otherwise.

Hand operations a red-row rule that matches the site limit and an asset register that survives DevEUI swaps.

Scaling from one room to a campus

Prove one plant room or one utility branch before you order branding. The 100-unit trial exists so the decoder and gateway survey are real.

Reuse naming conventions across buildings: room code, asset type, and model. Without that, year-two trends become a spreadsheet archaeology project.

Industrial flow and pressure kits belong on the same application as facility leak ropes when the gateway covers both. Keep profiles separate; share the map, not the codec.

Commissioning discipline

Write the measurement question before you open cartons. Confirm the regional plan on the quote. Paste only the matching decoder profile for each model.

Watch the frame counter for a full reporting interval. Name devices after rooms and tanks operators already use. Stock a spare for mounts you cannot reach without a lift.

A 100-unit stock trial proves join and decode before branding at 500 units. EU868 and US915 are standard; ask before you assume another band. Destination-market documentation is a separate pack on the purchase order.

FAQ

Facility or industrial page first?

Facility for plant-room water assets. Industrial for pipe flow/pressure. Both can share one network server.

Decoder library?

All 11 kit field maps are under /decoders.

Trial MOQ?

Stock trials start at 100 units. Branding typically starts at 500.

Can flow and leak share a gateway?

Yes, when RF coverage allows. Keep separate device profiles; share the map, not the codec.

What belongs in the campus naming scheme?

Building or room code, asset type, and model — so DevEUI swaps do not break year-two trends.