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IoT Technology Selector

MacTalk, LoRaWAN, Wi-Fi, cellular or NB-IoT — which one your deployment should run on, and why.

1 · Your deployment

Eight questions. Anything you are unsure of, leave at the default and change later.

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LoRaWAN (private network)

Scores 91 / 100 on balanced weighting — ahead of LTE-M at 59. Needs 3 gateways. About 19.6 years on a cell. Five-year cost index 634 against 2650 for LTE-M.

3

gateways

19.6

years on battery

634

5-yr cost index

How they rank

Tap a row to see why.

LoRaWAN (private network)

Feasible · 91 / 100

No cautions — a clean fit for this deployment.

88

Coverage fit

100

Battery life

100

Scalability

100

5-year cost

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Strengths side by side

Further out is better on every axis — including cost, which is inverted.

Coverage fitBattery lifeScalability5-year costData capacityControl & latencyIndependence

Cost over 5 years

Cumulative. Flat lines paid up front; rising lines keep paying.

014972995day 1yr 1yr 2yr 3yr 4yr 5cost index · one LoRaWAN sensor = 1
LoRaWAN634
LTE-M2650
DevicesGateways / APsInstallRecurring feesBattery changes

The recurring band is the whole argument. Cellular and NB-IoT buy no gateways, then pay a subscription per device every year; private LoRaWAN pays for gateways once. Which wins depends on fleet size and horizon — small fleets lean cellular, large ones lean LoRaWAN, and the crossover is usually well under a hundred devices.

How the recommendation is made

Hard gates first. Before any scoring, each technology is checked against physical limits: Wi-Fi cannot cover open farmland, LoRaWAN cannot carry images, MacTalk cannot reach the cloud on its own, NB-IoT drops moving assets. A gated technology is marked not suitable with the reason, never quietly scored low.

The numbers come from the other calculators. Gateway counts, access-point counts and battery years are computed by the same engines behind the coverage and battery tools on this site, so this page cannot disagree with the pages next to it.

Seven dimensions, weighted by what you said matters. Coverage fit, battery life, scalability, five-year cost, data capacity, control latency and independence from third-party networks. “Balanced” weights coverage and cost slightly higher; the other priorities re-weight one axis to 2.5×.

Cost is an index, not a price. One LoRaWAN sensor = 1. Gateway, access-point, SIM and install ratios are typical market figures and are editable above. The comparison shape — one-off infrastructure versus per-device fees that recur — is robust; absolute rupees belong in a quote.

Where we are not neutral. We make LoRaWAN and MacTalk devices. The gates and the cost model are written to hold regardless, and the tool does recommend cellular and Wi-Fi where they genuinely fit — small scattered fleets, moving assets, existing office networks, high-bandwidth data.

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