LPWAN based on Mysensors radio network using LoRa 433 MHz Phy - Range, etc

[cloolalang]

Im a noobie as of this week.
I have a Mysenors MQTT gateway on ESP32 with a AI Thinker RA-02 (433 MHz) Lora modulation radio.

Its working well so far, I'm interested to know if anyone has created a multi-node network covering , say a town using this protocol on LoRa or RFM69 Phyisical layer?

I am wondering if I setup an Mosquitto MQTT broker on a VM instance on Google Cloud, link my gateway to it and mount the thing on a high site with a decent co-linear antenna (I have a Ham Radio License). How big of a coverage area could I build?
Perhaps I make a mobile Node reporting GPS RSSI and drive around?
Solar-powered repeater nodes in the trees?
P

[mfalkvidd]

Welcome to the forum @cloolalang

A WAN doesn't really fit the MySensors design; MySensors is designed for house-sized networks. It is probably possible to use MySensors, but I think the following projects could be more applicable:

https://github.com/travisgoodspeed/loraham
https://disaster.radio
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/

[cloolalang]

Thanks for your reply.
Is there a document which describes the tree radio network transport design in detail?
I have taken look at the API and the mysensors Radio page.
I am keen to know if this is an CSMA or Aloha system and how the network can respond to higher traffics loads, channel occupancy and collisions etc.
Its a great project, I really like that the LoRa Phy has been leveraged to this.
Cheers
Patrick

[mfalkvidd]

@cloolalang it depends on the underlying transport protocol. Some use csma (rfm69 with new driver), some aloha (nrf24), some tri-state (rs485). I don't think MySensors has assembled documentation covering that angle.