Questions

Questions for End-device vendors;

For the end-device to operate for the planned life-cycle;
1) What is the EIRP of the device in normal operation as measured by a lab/radiated emmision test? (its <the max allowed, why?)
2) What is the near-field clearance area around the device in which no obstruction should exist in the installation which could effect the antenna performance?
3) What is the maximum spreading factor and number of repititions to be used in normal operation?
4) What is the maximum payload size and number of UL packets per day in normal operation?
5) What is the number of DL packets that the device can recieve and process per day?
6) Is fuota used in the device and if so, how oftern can it be used?
7) Describe the join process and back-off cycle for failed join attempts including the spreading factors and power levels used during join.
8) LoRaWAN® EU Supplementary Device Info Questionnaire answers
9) Which LoRaWAN technical recommendations are not implemented in the device, andf why ? https://lora-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TR007_Developing_LoRaWAN_Devices-v1.0.0.pdf
10) Is it recommended to fit the device in a meter pit, chamber of X dimentions?

Questions for Network operators;
1) How do you verify RF coverage to satisify the SLA. KPI?
2) What level of redundency is provided?
3) What interferance and noise mitigation processess are used to optimise the ISM band operation?
4) How is traffic capacity managed?
5) What perfortmance metrics are made available to the end-user?
6) What performance auditing is used?
7) How does the operator maintain industry and government standards compliance?
8) How is database quality controlled and to which international standards to they apply?
9) secureity compliance questions
10) How are hardware faults and firmware bugs processed?
11) what commitment is given to maintain the network hardware and firmware/BSP up to date?
12) what fade margin is useds for coverage planning? (ITU recommendation?)
13) what expected environmental noise floor figure is used for coverage planning?
14) What measures are used to mitigate the effects of a non-duplex gateway not being able to RX uplink traffic and send downlink traffic at the same time?
15) What engineering measures are employed to maintain gateway performance when co-located with Cellular base stations (coex)?
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