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Hands on LoRa IoT Network

IoT (Internet of Things) is a has become a reality. Its adoption is increasing at exponential rates in almost all areas. I’m lucky that a friend of mine lent me his “Dragino Lora IoT Kit” to develop a prototype for his startup. The kit comes in this beautiful box.

Getting the Arduino Uno board to work on my Macbook was quite a hassle. I had to download a firmware from a website which I don’t remember for it to work. Yep, I was so desperate that I ignored the security concerns. But finally, my Arduino IDE finally recognized the board. I connected an RFID reader to it but unfortunately it couldn’t read any of my tags or cards. I’m guessing it’s simply a faulty reader. I will get a new one soon.

LoRa is a long distance, low power IoT network. It is similar to SigFox IoT network which has already been deployed in Mauritius. The difference between these 2 is that SigFox sells its network and LoRa sells its chips. Meaning anyone can have his own private LoRa network but has to buy the hardware for SemTech. On the other hand, anyone can manufacture SigFox equipments but they have to connect to SigFox’s official network only.

The Dragino Kit offers a LoRa gateway along with 2 Arduino Uno’s coupled with LoRa Shields. The results:

It’s just a simple hello world app but now is when the fun is going to start. Next I plan to make the LoRa server pair with my custom MQTT server and send logs to my ElasticSearch cluster so I can start analyzing data.

If you have more ideas on how we could use this technology, feel free to have a little chat 😉

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Chilli’s Pack Zenes is awesome (MTML)

For Rs 75, you get 750mb of data for 1 month. Isn’t that great?

The signal quality is awesome. Last week I went to Belle Mare beach. A friend called me on WhatsApp and the sound was crystal clear. Browsing the internet is super fast for a mobile phone.

I’ve been using the service since 2 weeks now. I’m really satisfied. I’d strongly recommend the Pack Zenes — unless if you live in a really remote location, you might wanna ask for someone else for feedback.

Great service MTML 🙂

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Why I read magazines backwards

I ain’t no bookworm. I got very short attention span like most facebookers and tweeps.

Magazines usually start with editorials and their front featured articles. That’s too much to digest at once.

One paragraph articles or short comics at the end are very easy fast and easy to read. As I move towards the front page, the articles get a little bit longer and deeper. My mind is in a more curious and grasping mode for that effect.

And some people thought I’m a fanatic! xP

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Goodbye AirAsia

Mauritian social medias are full of disapointment by the fact the AirAsia will stop it’s service in Mauritius soon.

“The suspension of the Mauritius route is a part of the company’s big plan in network restructuring aimed at improving operational efficiencies in term of aircraft utilizations”

There are rumours that this is due to pressure by some Mauritians groups

“the sudden decision could be due to peer pressure by local ethnic groups, lobbying to the authorities in Mauritius to stop the highly successful flights.” –theindependent.sg

As I am a common people, I don’t have the ability to know the real reason behind.

It’s a really sad thing that Middle class Mauritians won’t be able to afford holidays abroad as AirAsia was allowing. Is there anyone to standup for “ti-dimounes”?

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Slavery still on in the Employment Rights Act of Mauritius

Stay in your job position for 8 hours. On top of that, add 1 hour more for lunch time. Makes 9 hours in the workplace already.

As the time of writing, February 2017, teleportation has not yet been invented — or at least not that common people know of. It takes around 1 hour to 3 hours to commute to our workplace. Stupid traffic jams. Cherry on the cake, Mauritian Ministers with their escorts have the guts (‘toupe monstre’) to halt other road users so they can drive in our tax-paid BMWs and on our tax-paid roads in front of us while we, uhm, watch them in their dark tinted windows. Why are they in such a hurry to travel to finally do nothing?

The 8 hour work day supposed to be like this (best case scenario):

But in reality, it’s very different:

Lot’s of people do over-times on top of the 8 hour work which further decreases their personal times and sleep. This leads to insomnia, depression.

I believe we have the rights to spend time with our children, energy to setup shop. To summarise, we need time to live!

How many for “30 hour work-week” in Mauritius?