We love the abundance of fritzing diagrams, arduino code ... have a look at LoRa Enabled Mailbox as well as Electric Fence Monitoring with The Things Network for a bit of IoT action.

Although we generally think of Internet of Things (IoT) and similar devices ... consisting of an ATmega328P-based Arduino Pro Mini and SX1276-based RFM95W LoRa module with a spring antenna.

At the heart of the kit is the SparkFun IoT Node board. Key features of the development board include: The Digi XBee® LR module for LoRaWAN®, which uses LoRa™ modulation for Non-Line-of-Sight ...