What do you think about the interoperability of Low power wide area IoT devices belonging to different LPWAN technologies? As a subset of LPWAN IoT protocols operates in unlicensed sub-GHz band (like LoRa, Sigfox) while some other protocols operate on licensed spectrum (NB-IoT). How is it possible to make them integrate/compatible with each other? How about relaying both LoRa and NB-IoT through a single gateway?
Interesting question
Combining NB-IoT and LPWAN would quiet difficult since both protocoles are different and application area is also different.
Indeed, it would be interesting. Lately, I was going through the Low Throughout Networks (LTN) standardization by ETSI and it seems they are working on it. Infact, they have not yet taken into account both licensed and unlicensed protocols but they have provided cross platform compatibility for LoRa and Sigfox (both operated in unlicensed spectrum). Please have a look at the following document:
https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/LTN/001_099/003/01.01.01_60/gs_LTN003v010101p.pdf
NB-IoT is a 3GPP communication protocol which co-exists with GSM and LTE (it uses the LTE carrier's in the licenced bands). Lora is different, it is the propriety of Lora-Alliance. The differences are very large (modulation, frequency bands and types, range, data rate ...)
Take a look at "Article A comparative study of LPWAN technologies for large-scale Io...
"To make take advantages of both of them, i think we must try the radio cognitive system
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