LoRaWAN In Space - Jon Pearce & Lacuna Space

About this episode

The episode discusses how Lacuna Space utilizes LoRaWAN technology over low-Earth-orbit satellites to enhance IoT connectivity.

The episode explores how Lacuna Space uses LoRaWAN over low‑Earth‑orbit satellites to solve the traditional coverage limitations of terrestrial LoRaWAN networks. Jon Pearce explains that Lacuna targets low-power, low-bandwidth IoT use cases where devices send small, infrequent data packets directly from sensor to satellite, trading bandwidth for battery life and global reach. Jon describes the company’s developer kit and antenna approach, along with typical data profiles such as water metering and environmental monitoring that can tolerate a few uplinks per day. Pearce also outlines how Lacuna scales its constellation based on capacity and specific customer requirements, including sovereign or national deployments, and how it partners with other satellite operators to embed Lacuna technology on their spacecraft. Throughout, he contrasts Lacuna’s model with legacy high-bandwidth satellite services and emphasizes the economics of expanding constellations for large, well-defined IoT rollouts like nationwide smart metering. Jon Pearce on LinkedIn Lacuna Space Helium Global IoT Coverage - Want to know if Helium coverage exists where you need it? Check out this map! Helium Foundation…

People in this episode

Guest: Jon Pearce

Topics covered

• LoRaWAN
• satellites
• IoT
• environmental monitoring
• smart metering

Keywords

• low-power
• low-bandwidth
• data packets
• developer kit
• antenna approach

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Lacuna, the Helium LoRaWAN, Helium, MeteoScientific Console, The MeteoScientific Console, Lacuna Space

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