Thanks for posting this, I will review when I have a chance. I have recently changed jobs from traditional Enterprise IT to a major general contractor firm that builds skyscrapers, and now I work for the “Smart Buildings” division.
I’m no RF engineer, (IP & Ethernet is my networking background), but it’s very interesting to see how consumer-level home automation tech like Z-Wave & Zigbee are beginning to intersect with commercial systems and evolve. For example, @JasonJoel compared Z-Wave LR to LoRaWAN, and then there is Zigbee & IEEE 802.15.4 as communication layers for CHIP & Thread. Sometimes these evolving protocols integrate with each other, and sometimes they compete, (sometimes both), such as CHIP, Zigbee IP, Thread, and 6LoWPAN, all of which run over IEEE 802.15.4.
As an aside, @JasonJoel, are there consumer-level LoRa/LoRaWAN products available in the market? And are you integrating any such products into a consumer-level solution like Hubitat? Or are the LoRaWAN gateways too expensive to justify at the expected price point a consumer could stomach?
