A Sockets API for LoRa - Andreas Färber, SUSE
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2018-10-25

A Sockets API for LoRa - Andreas Färber, SUSE

LoRa is a long-range, low-power Wide Area Network technology for the IoT. LoRa modules are available from many vendors, but there is no standardized software interface yet for accessing them. The proposal is a Linux sockets interface to layer LoRaWAN and competing network protocols on top within the kernel, with proper device drivers using spi and serdev subsystems and Device Tree descriptions instead of spidev or tty devices in userspace. 

About Andreas Färber
Andreas has been with SUSE since 2011, working on KVM virtualization as an engineer and regularly speaking at KVM Forum. He has been behind the openSUSE arm port since its restart in 2011, making Linux and openSUSE run on various boards and devices. Since 2017 he is the Project Manager for the arm64 architecture at SUSE Labs. On the side he has become the kernel maintainer for Realtek and Actions Semiconductor arm SoCs.