RAK Hotspot V2

RAK Hotspot V2 is a high-performing, ready-to-use LoRaWAN indoor gateway compatible with Helium LongFi Network. RAK Hotspot V2 can connect to The People’s Network within a few simple steps in minutes, and helps you build LoRa applications with low costs.

By deploying it at your home or office, you can provide your city with miles of low-power network coverage for billions of devices and earn a new cryptocurrency, HNT.

RAK Hotspot V2 Features

• Computing with Raspberry Pi4 (Linux)
• 2 GB on-board RAM
• 32 GB SD card
• Based on the LoRa Concentrator Engine: Semtech® SX1302
• Built-in Heat Sink for thermal heat dissipation management
• Supports 5 V / 2.4 A power supply
• IP30 housing
• TX power up to 27 dBm, RX sensitivity down to -139 dBm @SF12, BW 125 KHz
• LoRa Frequency band support: RU864, IN865, EU868, US915, AU915, KR920, AS923.
• Includes Pi ready ‘ID EE PROM’, GPIO setup, and device tree can be automatically configured from vendor information
• Supports a fully open source LoRaWAN server
• 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ac wireless LAN, Bluetooth 5.0, BLE
• Peak Gain 2.8 dBi – 863~870 MHz
• Peak Gain 2.3 dBi – 902~928 MHz

Here are two websites that show the frequency for each region.

Optional LoRa antenna

• 3dBi|5dBi|8dBi

Packaging

• 1 x RAK Hotspot V2
• 1 x network cable
• 1 x Gateway
• 1 x 4 dBi LoRaWAN Antenna
• 1 x Power Adapter
• TF Card Slot: Onboard
• *Hotspot $40 onboarding
• *First $10 location assert

RAK Hotspot V2 Specifications

Frequency Plan

• US915 for North America.
• EU868 for Europe and UAE.
• AU915 for Australia, Brazil, Peru, and New Zealand.
• AS923 for Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Helium LongFi is a technology architecture that combines the leading wireless technology, LoRaWAN, and the Helium Blockchain. LongFi is optimized for miles of range, and long battery life for IoT devices.

RAK Hotspot earns Helium when devices connect, and for validating wireless coverage delivered by peers. Using a system called Proof-of-Coverage, RAK Hotspot earns more Helium when they’re in range of other RAK Hotspot, but need to be at least 300 meters apart.

Range depends on the environment. For rural areas, up to 10 miles or more, but in more dense areas, up to a mile. Single RAK Hotspot earns less as they can only issue Challenges over the internet, and can’t participate in Proof-of-Coverage.

• Deliver many square miles of coverage from a single RAK Hotspot.
• Based on initial testing, only about 50 to 100 RAK Hotspots are needed to provide complete coverage for an entire city.

• Create a new global network for billions of devices.
• Any IoT device can become Helium-enabled using readily available off-the-shelf hardware components, software, and a reference design that is open source for anyone to improve upon

Documentation

• RAK Hotspot V2 Datasheet