Blog Posts

LoRaWAN in theory and practice: A trip through Munich

• Anna-Lena Marx
• February 24, 2024
• Embedded , Conferences

LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) is becoming increasingly popular, thanks in part to public networks such as The Things Network, which allow users to dispense with their own gateways. LoRaWAN also promises potential in terms of range and energy efficiency. But how does the standard perform in practice?

The aim of the presentation is to shed light on the technical background and demonstrate how practicable LoRa is in the field using real tests. It will be shown how the standard behaves in urban and rural areas, how differences in height of the gateway and different antennas influence the transmission quality.

Building a Yocto Pipeline with KAS, GitHub Actions and AWS

• Anna-Lena Marx
• November 29, 2023
• Embedded , Conferences

Using KAS makes handling Yocto Projects easy. By shipping its own container with all needed dependencies, building sophisticated CI pipelines becomes pretty easy - in theory, or when using Gitlab. But using GitHub as a code hosting platform with self-managed Action runners on AWS comes with a set of unexpected challenges.
Anna-Lena will talk about her quest through GitHub Actions, the Cloud and how to tame them. The talk aims to point the audience to the obstacles when building CI pipelines for the Yocto Project with KAS, GitHub Actions, and custom action runners on AWS and strategies to handle them.