Overview
Allorado offers a gateway solution that simplifies LoRa connectivity. The gateway enables connection between LoRa and multiple protocols including BACnet and KNX.
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- You lock your car when you park it. So why would you leave your building network wide open? 🔐 Around ten years ago, concerns about KNX being attacked from outside or even from within the network pushed the industry towards encrypted telegrams. Today, that idea matters even more. Because KNX isn’t standing still. KNX IoT and whatever comes next all add new ways for devices to talk to each other. 👋 And every new connection is useful, but it also needs to play by the same security rules. 🚨 Source: Interview with Peter Janke
- If you don’t know where your building data goes, you’ve already lost control of it. 😶🌫️ A gateway collects data from inside your building. Temperatures, occupancy, HVAC behaviour, system states. Sending all of that to an external cloud by default should never be treated as the obvious choice. Because the moment that data leaves your infrastructure, you’re depending on someone else’s security, servers and decisions, while your own responsibility for managing that risk doesn’t disappear with it.. ☁️ That’s why we chose to
- Behind the 31.5% energy number is a network engineering problem: how do you get 2,000 LoRaWAN devices to communicate reliably in one building? Our CEO Bram Roelandts put it well in the VUB case study video: it comes down to dimensioning the network and using physics to minimize collisions so the deployment goes first time right, every time. Why does the Allorado gateway stand out? It keeps everything local — commissioning, integration, data — every step of the way. The gateway absorbs all of the complexity to make the system
- Napoleon Bonaparte. A small man with rather large ambitions. He built an empire across Europe, crowned himself Emperor, and had the Arc de Triomphe commissioned to make sure Paris remembered the whole thing. Wait. Small, with large ambitions... Doesn’t that remind me of something? Oh yeah! Our Allorado Gateway. 📡 This compact gateway is a small box that can command an entire building network, a bit like Napoleon commanding his territory. The main difference? Our gateway doesn’t need an army, a crown or a massive stone arch to prove
- Episode four of Myth or Fact is here. This week’s quote: “LoRa is Long Range.” Okay, we know. It is literally in the name. 🤭 Which makes this one slightly less mysterious than usual, but we did want to make a video about it because we still get asked this. 😳 So, instead of making a 10-second video, Victoria Bohn and Aiko Fias take a look at one of the least wireless-friendly places you could imagine: the Port of Rotterdam. Containers. Cranes. Steel everywhere. Plenty of things for a radio signal to have an argument with. And yet,
- Episode three of Myth or Fact is here. And this time, Victoria Bohn called in some technical backup. 👀 Our quote of the week: “LoRa is secure.” Wireless technology and security in the same sentence tends to raise a few fair questions. Who can access the network? Can someone intercept the data? And what is actually happening behind the scenes to keep everything protected? For those questions, we figured it was best to bring in someone who spends a little more time under the technical hood. Enter Aiko Fias, Engineering Lead at
- Big smiles, bigger news: the Allorado KNX IoT Router is nominated for a KNX Product Award 2026! 🎉 Out of hundreds of KNX manufacturers worldwide, only 33 products made the cut. Ours is one of them. [Internal screaming.] The best part? This one isn't decided by a panel in a boardroom; it's the KNX Community that picks the winner. People who actually use this stuff daily. That means you. 🫵 👉 Vote for the Allorado KNX IoT Router here: https://lnkd.in/ezuMbCPn Thank you for all the support! It means the world to us. 😁
- Episode two of Myth or Fact is here. This time, we’re looking at another claim we hear surprisingly often: “LoRa is only for outside.” It is easy to see where that idea comes from. 💡 LoRa is known for its long range and is often associated with open spaces, outdoor installations and remote sensors. And buildings come with thick walls, awkward corners, multiple floors and the occasional room that seems specifically designed to block every wireless signal known to humankind. 🤦 So, does LoRa still work when you take away the open
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