Long Range Radio (LoRa)

In News

  • Recently, the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), an arm of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has developed a new low cost financial network to take banking to remote areas.

About Long Range Radio (LoRa)

  • LoRa technology is a wireless modulation technique in the physical layer, allowing long-range communication using chirp spread spectrum.
  • LoRa technology uses dedicated radios, which are not usually present in end-user devices, limiting interferences from other devices.
  • LoRa is ideal for applications that transmit small chunks of data with low bit rates.
  • It is a new dedicated low cost financial network that can be used privately by banks to send encrypted texts to conduct financial transactions.

Source: BL