LoRa modules question

[gussabina]

Hello:

I see some people were successful using LoRa modules covering very long distances (over 2.5km). It's a very interesting option for some projects. However, I see in this forum they are using two ends with same boards without any other service/server. I read somewhere that for LoRa you basically need to implement the client and contract a service provider or something like this at the server side to decode the information... I'm wondering how this is different from the tests are doing in this forum...

Regards;
Gus

[Felix]

Not clear what the question is really about...

I read somewhere that for LoRa you basically need to implement the client and contract a service provider or something like this at the server side to decode the information

But where did you read that??
Why would there be a need for anything like that?

[gussabina]

Hello Felix:

I read it from here;

https://docs.mbed.com/docs/lora-with-mbed/en/latest/intro-to-lora/

That's why I 'm confused.

Thanks
Gus

[Felix]

You are probably referring to different application layers.
A service layer can be anything that reads one of your nodes which receives data from others. It's just an abstraction. It has nothing to do with the low level code running on the nodes.