[Osmf-talk] OSM & LoRa LPWAN

Md Shahriar Alam shahriar.nits at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 05:08:55 UTC 2018


Good day Everybody! A Ebykes service company of New Zealand wanted to use
OSM and they have asked me about some bandwidth related issues with OSM.
What should be the answer of their below Questions If someone of you know
this:

" We're taking a holistic approach that we believe will dramatically
improve eBikes. We're doing this by drilling down into all the key
components, to identify better ways of doing things.

As we're developing our own electric motor package and control system, I'm
interested in adding features which could be enabled by accessing a low
cost & power IoT network. Hence, I'm trying to figure out which LPWAN
technology suits our applications best and whether these networks offer
sufficient bandwidth to that offering OpenStreetMap navigation via the
bikes LCD touchscreen would not simply cause a lot of frustration!

We've been trying to find out the bandwidth requirements of OSM but so far
I've been unsuccessful. Hence, I thought I'd see if I could find someone
associated with OSM with the knowledge to be able to offer such advice. I
thought you looked like such a person! Is that something you may be able to
help us with?

To give you some idea of the bandwidth of these network technologies. LoRa,
which is quite a common IoT network seems to be limited to 50 bytes every
5-10 min for both the up and down link. The network operator explains that
there is a difference between what is possible with the network and what is
recommended to get stable results in all conditions, so allowing for 50
bytes enables stable results in all conditions.

The operator also suggests that the ability of their network to provide map
function data transfer will depend on how much data is transferred, how
frequently, and if it is suitable to be sent as a discreet data payload."



*Thanks and Regards*
*Plnr. Md. Shahriar Alam *
*| **Sr. Web GIS (Geographic Information System) Specialist |*
*GIS Department,*
*Cell: +8801714130159,*

*| **Premium Instructor of Web GIS | *
*Udemy.*
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