CN111148276A

CN111148276A - Communication method, device, base station and storage medium based on LoRa technology

Info

Publication number: CN111148276A
Application number: CN202010032523.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 赵洪鹏
Original assignee: Wuhan Wiregate Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Wuhan Wiregate Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-01-13
Filing date: 2020-01-13
Publication date: 2020-05-12
Anticipated expiration: 2040-01-13
Also published as: CN111148276B

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention discloses a communication method, a device, a base station and a storage medium based on an LoRa technology, wherein the method comprises the following steps: a first LoRa communication base station receives a communication request of a first LoRa terminal; determining a second identity of a second LoRa terminal as a called terminal based on the communication request; the communication request comprises a first identity identifier of the first LoRa terminal as a calling terminal; judging whether the second identity identification is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a preset condition is met, and obtaining a judgment result; the first database stores the identity identifications of a plurality of LoRa terminals in the signal coverage range of a first LoRa communication base station; and under the condition that the judgment result shows that the second identity is stored in the first database, establishing communication connection with the second LoRa terminal according to the second identity, and establishing a communication link between the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal based on the communication connection with the first LoRa terminal and the communication connection with the second LoRa terminal.

Description

Communication method, device, base station and storage medium based on LoRa technology

Technical Field

The present invention relates to Long Range Radio (LoRa) technology in the field of communications, and in particular, to a communication method, apparatus, base station, and storage medium based on LoRa technology.

Background

The traditional mobile phone communication technology cannot meet communication requirements in many scenes: in a first scenario, in an emergency communication scenario, for example, in some remote mountain areas, unmanned areas and other areas where cellular networks do not cover, an errant adventure often waits for rescue; in a second scenario, in a weak signal communication area, in places with more obstacles and weaker cellular signals, such as a large shopping center, an underground garage, a concert site, a congested scenic spot and the like, the mobile phone in the traditional cellular technology cannot communicate with the mobile phone of a companion; and a third scenario, a secure and confidential communication scenario, wherein in order to ensure information security, a measure of shielding a cellular network is usually adopted to cut off the contact with the outside in confidential departments such as an information institution and the like. Therefore, a mobile phone communication requirement capable of meeting emergency communication, weak signal communication area and secure and confidential communication scene is needed, and no effective solution is available at present.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, embodiments of the present invention are intended to provide a communication method, apparatus, base station and storage medium based on the LoRa technology.

The technical embodiment of the invention is realized as follows:

the embodiment of the invention provides a communication method based on an LoRa technology, which comprises the following steps:

a first LoRa communication base station receives a communication request of a first LoRa terminal; determining a second identity of a second LoRa terminal as a called terminal based on the communication request; the communication request comprises a first identity identifier of the first LoRa terminal as a calling terminal;

judging whether the second identity identification is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a preset condition is met, and obtaining a judgment result; the first database stores the identity identifications of a plurality of LoRa terminals in the signal coverage range of the first LoRa communication base station;

and if the judgment result shows that the second identity is stored in the first database, establishing communication connection with the second LoRa terminal according to the second identity, and establishing a communication link between the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal based on the communication connection with the first LoRa terminal and the communication connection with the second LoRa terminal.

In the above aspect, the method further includes:

the first LoRa communication base station receives a data packet sent by a LoRa terminal; the LoRa terminal is any terminal in the signal coverage range of the first LoRa communication base station;

and extracting the identity of the LoRa terminal in the data packet, and storing the identity in the first database.

In the above aspect, the method further includes:

the first LoRa communication base station sends the identity of the LoRa terminal to a cloud platform server; and a communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is not interrupted.

In the foregoing solution, the determining whether the second identity is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a preset condition is met includes:

and under the condition that a communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is interrupted, judging whether the second identity is stored in a first database obtained in advance.

In the above aspect, the method further includes:

first loRa communication base station with under the uninterrupted condition of communication link between the cloud platform server, first loRa communication base station will first identity with second identity send to the cloud platform server, the cloud platform server be used for based on first identity establish with the communication connection at first loRa terminal, based on second identity establish with the communication connection at second loRa terminal, based on with the communication connection at first loRa terminal and with the communication connection at second loRa terminal establishes first loRa terminal with the communication link at second loRa terminal.

The embodiment of the invention provides a communication device based on an LoRa technology, which comprises: receiving unit, judgement unit and establishment unit, wherein:

the receiving unit is used for receiving a communication request of a first LoRa terminal; determining a second identity of a second LoRa terminal as a called terminal based on the communication request; the communication request comprises a first identity identifier of the first LoRa terminal as a calling terminal;

the judging unit is used for judging whether the second identity identifier determined by the receiving unit is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a preset condition is met, and obtaining a judgment result; the first database stores the identity identifications of a plurality of LoRa terminals in the signal coverage range of the first LoRa communication base station;

the establishing unit is configured to establish a communication connection with the second LoRa terminal according to the second identity if the determination result obtained by the determining unit indicates that the second identity is stored in the first database, and establish a communication link between the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal based on the communication connection with the first LoRa terminal and the communication connection with the second LoRa terminal.

In the above solution, the apparatus further comprises: an extraction unit, wherein:

the receiving unit is further configured to receive a data packet sent by the LoRa terminal; the LoRa terminal is any terminal in the signal coverage range of the first LoRa communication base station;

the extracting unit is configured to extract the identity of the LoRa terminal in the data packet, and store the identity in the first database.

In the above solution, the apparatus further comprises: the sending unit is used for sending the identity of the LoRa terminal to a cloud platform server; and a communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is not interrupted.

In the foregoing solution, the determining unit is further configured to determine whether the second identity is stored in a first database obtained in advance, when a communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is interrupted.

In the above scheme, the sending unit is further configured to be used for the first LoRa communication base station and under the condition that a communication link between the cloud platform servers is not interrupted, the first identity with the second identity is sent to the cloud platform servers, the cloud platform servers are configured to establish communication connection with the first LoRa terminal based on the first identity, establish communication connection with the second LoRa terminal based on the second identity, establish communication connection with the first LoRa terminal and establish communication connection with the second LoRa terminal based on the first LoRa terminal and establish communication link with the second LoRa terminal.

The embodiment of the invention provides a communication base station based on an LoRa technology, which comprises a processor, a memory and an LoRa communication module; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the LoRa communication module is used for communicating with a LoRa terminal;

the memory for storing a computer program;

the processor is configured to execute any of the steps of the method described above when executing the computer program stored in the memory.

The embodiment of the invention provides a communication terminal based on an LoRa technology, which comprises: the system comprises a processor, a memory and a LoRa communication module; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the LoRa communication module is used for communicating with a LoRa communication base station;

the memory for storing a computer program;

the processor, when executing the computer program stored in the memory, is configured to perform: sending a communication request to the LoRa communication base station through the LoRa communication module; the communication request at least comprises a first identity identifier of a first LoRa terminal serving as a calling terminal and a second identity identifier of a second LoRa terminal serving as a called terminal; the second identity is used for indicating the LoRa communication base station establishes communication connection with the second LoRa terminal, and based on with communication connection of the first LoRa terminal and communication connection with the second LoRa terminal establish the first LoRa terminal with communication link of the second LoRa terminal.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when being executed by a processor, implements any of the steps of the above-mentioned method.

The communication method, device, base station and storage medium based on the LoRa technology provided by the embodiment of the invention, wherein the method comprises the following steps: a first LoRa communication base station receives a communication request of a first LoRa terminal; determining a second identity of a second LoRa terminal as a called terminal based on the communication request; the communication request comprises a first identity identifier of the first LoRa terminal as a calling terminal; judging whether the second identity identification is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a preset condition is met, and obtaining a judgment result; the first database stores the identity identifications of a plurality of LoRa terminals in the signal coverage range of the first LoRa communication base station; and if the judgment result shows that the second identity is stored in the first database, establishing communication connection with the second LoRa terminal according to the second identity, and establishing a communication link between the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal based on the communication connection with the first LoRa terminal and the communication connection with the second LoRa terminal. By adopting the technical scheme of the embodiment of the invention, the communication link is established for the two LoRa terminals which are stored with the identity marks through the LoRa communication base station under the scene that the preset condition is met (for example, under the scene that the LoRa communication base station cannot communicate with the cloud platform server), and the mobile phone communication requirements of emergency communication scenes such as remote mountainous areas and the like, weak signal communication areas such as concerts and the like and safe and confidential communication scenes of information institutions can be met.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic flow chart illustrating a communication method based on the LoRa technology according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an LoRa terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an LoRa communication module in an LoRa terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic network architecture diagram of a communication method of the LoRa technology according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device based on the LoRa technique according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a hardware entity structure of a communication base station based on the LoRa technology in the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of a hardware entity structure of a communication terminal based on the LoRa technology in the embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the following describes specific technical solutions of the present invention in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. The following examples are intended to illustrate the invention but are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.

The embodiment proposes a communication method based on the LoRa technology, which is applied to the communication base station of the LoRa technology, and the functions implemented by the method can be implemented by the communication module in the communication base station of the LoRa technology performing communication and the processor calling the program code, although the program code can be stored in the computer storage medium, and as can be seen, the computing device at least includes the processor, the communication module and the storage medium.

Fig. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a communication method based on the LoRa technology according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 1, the method includes:

step S101: a first LoRa communication base station receives a communication request of a first LoRa terminal; determining a second identity of a second LoRa terminal as a called terminal based on the communication request; the communication request comprises a first identity identifier of the first LoRa terminal as a calling terminal.

In this embodiment, the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal may be any LoRa terminal, which is not limited herein. As an example, the first LoRa terminal may be a calling terminal, the second LoRa terminal may be a called terminal, both the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal may be LoRa handsets, and each LoRa handset may include a LoRa communication module. Each LoRa terminal has a globally unique identity (UUID), and each LoRa terminal may transmit its UUID to its neighboring LoRa communication base station through a periodic heartbeat packet.

For convenience of understanding, a schematic structure diagram of an LoRa terminal is illustrated herein, and fig. 2 is a schematic structure diagram of an LoRa terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2, the memory 20 is configured to store data in the LoRa terminal; the processor 19 is used for connecting various components in the LoRa terminal; the keyboard 11 is used for inputting characters and dialing telephone; the display screen 12 is used for displaying text, pattern information and the like; the camera 13 is used for taking pictures; the loudspeaker 14 is used for playing the received audio signal; the Global Positioning System (GPS) is a Positioning System for high-precision radio navigation based on air satellites, and the GPS15 is used for searching satellite information and outputting longitude and latitude Positioning data; the microphone 16 is used for receiving analog sound signals in the environment and converting the analog sound signals into digital audio signals; the lithium battery 18 is used for supplying power to the whole LoRa mobile phone system; the LoRa communication module 17 serves as a core communication module, and is used for data interaction and communication with other LoRa terminals or LoRa communication base stations. The LoRa communication module 17 may be any LoRa communication module, and is not limited herein. As an example, the LoRa communication module 17 may include an antenna, an LoRa radio frequency modulation chip, a communication processor chip, and a power supply chip.

For convenience of understanding, here, a schematic structural diagram of an LoRa communication module is illustrated, fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an LoRa communication module in an LoRa terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, an antenna 171 is used for sending and receiving radio communication signals and transmitting the signals to an LoRa radio frequency modulation chip 172, the LoRa radio frequency modulation chip 172 performs information interaction on baseband signals through a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Interface and a communication processor chip 174, and the entire LoRa communication module 17 performs power management through a power chip 173.

First LoRa communication base station can be the base station including LoRa communication module, and this LoRa communication module is used for communicating with first LoRa terminal. The detailed structure of the LoRa communication module is similar to that in fig. 3, and is not described herein again.

A first LoRa communication base station receives a communication request of a first LoRa terminal; the communication request may be any type of communication request, and is not limited herein. As an example, the communication request may be a call request.

Determining a second identity of a second LoRa terminal as a called terminal based on the communication request; the communication request comprises a first identity identifier of the first LoRa terminal as a calling terminal; wherein the first identity identifier and the second identity identifier are both UUIDs; since the communication request may be to establish a communication connection between the calling terminal and the called terminal, the UUID of the calling terminal and the UUID of the second LoRa terminal, which is the called terminal, may be determined based on the communication request.

Step S102: judging whether the second identity identification is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a preset condition is met, and obtaining a judgment result; the first database stores the identity identifications of a plurality of LoRa terminals in the signal coverage range of the first LoRa communication base station.

In this embodiment, the preset condition may be determined according to an actual situation, and is not limited herein. As an example, the preset condition may be that a communication link between the LoRa communication base station and a cloud platform server is interrupted. The preset conditions mainly aim at the situations that in emergency communication scenes such as remote mountainous areas and the like, weak signal communication areas such as concerts and the like, and in security and secrecy communication scenes of information institutions, cellular signals are weak or the cellular signals are shielded, and communication links between the LoRa communication base stations and the cloud platform server are interrupted.

The first database stores the identity identifications of a plurality of LoRa terminals in the signal coverage range of the first LoRa communication base station; the signal coverage may be determined according to an actual situation, and is not limited herein. As an example, the signal coverage may be a range of 3000 meters. The first database may be a database in which a plurality of LoRa terminals respectively send their own identifiers to the first LoRa communication base station, and the first LoRa communication base station stores the identifiers of the plurality of LoRa terminals within the signal coverage of the first LoRa communication base station in the database of the first LoRa communication base station.

And judging whether the second identity is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a preset condition is met, wherein the obtained judgment result can be that whether the second identity is stored in the first database obtained in advance is judged under the condition that a communication link between the LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is interrupted, and the judgment result is obtained. Specifically, the second identity may be compared with an identity in a first database obtained in advance, and when the comparison result indicates that an identity identical to the second identity exists in the database, it is determined that the second identity is stored in the first database; and determining that the second identity identifier is not stored in the first database under the condition that the comparison result shows that the identity identifier which is the same as the second identity identifier does not exist in the first database. That is, the determination result may include that the second identifier is stored in the first database obtained in advance or that the second identifier is not stored in the first database obtained in advance.

For convenience of understanding, here, a schematic network architecture diagram of a communication method of an LoRa technology is illustrated, and fig. 4 is a schematic network architecture diagram of a communication method of an LoRa technology according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, a plurality of LoRa terminals 1 in a signal coverage area of a first LoRa communication base station 2 may communicate with the first LoRa communication base station 2 through the LoRa technology, where the first LoRa communication base station 2 may be any one of the LoRa communication base stations, and the first LoRa communication base station 2 may communicate with a cloud platform server 3.

In this embodiment, a judgment result is obtained by judging whether the second identity is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a preset condition is met; the first database stores the identity identifications of a plurality of LoRa terminals in the signal coverage range of the first LoRa communication base station so as to determine whether to judge according to the judgment result

Step S103: and if the judgment result shows that the second identity is stored in the first database, establishing communication connection with the second LoRa terminal according to the second identity, and establishing a communication link between the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal based on the communication connection with the first LoRa terminal and the communication connection with the second LoRa terminal.

In this embodiment, when the determination result indicates that the second identity is stored in the first database, establishing a communication connection with the second LoRa terminal according to the second identity may be that, when the determination result indicates that the second identity is stored in the first database, the first LoRa communication base station may establish a communication connection with the called terminal according to a UUID of the called terminal, and as an example, the communication connection may be a data connection.

Establishing the communication link between the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal based on the communication connection between the first LoRa terminal and the communication connection between the second LoRa terminal may be understood as establishing the communication link between the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal by the first LoRa communication base station according to the communication connection between the first LoRa terminal as a calling terminal and the communication connection between the second LoRa terminal as a called terminal.

In this embodiment, a judgment result is obtained by judging whether the second identity is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a preset condition is met; the first database stores the identity identifications of a plurality of LoRa terminals in the signal coverage range of the first LoRa communication base station, in case the result of the determination indicates that the second identity is stored in the first database, establishing a communication connection with the second LoRa terminal according to the second identity, establishing a communication link between the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal based on the communication connection with the first LoRa terminal and the communication connection with the second LoRa terminal, so that the communication method based on the LoRa technology can meet the mobile phone communication requirements of emergency communication scenes such as remote mountainous areas and the like, weak signal communication areas such as concerts and the like and security and confidentiality communication scenes of intelligence institutions, the coverage range of a plurality of LoRa terminals is wide, the communication coverage range of each LoRa terminal is 3000 meters, each LoRa terminal can be freely networked, and a wireless Mesh network (Mesh) networking mode is supported; this communication process is with low costs, low power dissipation, and the LoRa terminal does not need extra auxiliary assembly under the condition of no net communication, can directly link between the LoRa terminal with can realize communicating.

According to the communication method based on the LoRa technology, provided by the embodiment of the invention, a judgment result is obtained by judging whether the second identity is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a preset condition is met; the first database stores the identification marks of a plurality of LoRa terminals in the signal coverage range of the first LoRa communication base station, the judgment result shows that the second identification mark is stored in the first database, the communication connection with the second LoRa terminal is established according to the second identification mark, and the mobile phone communication requirements of emergency communication scenes such as remote mountainous areas, weak signal communication areas such as concerts and the like and safe and confidential communication scenes of information mechanisms can be met on the basis of the communication connection with the first LoRa terminal and the communication connection with the second LoRa terminal, wherein the communication connection with the second LoRa terminal establishes the communication link between the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal.

In an optional embodiment of the invention, the method further comprises:

In this embodiment, there are a plurality of LoRa terminals in the signal coverage of the first LoRa communication base station, and each LoRa terminal may send a data packet to the first LoRa communication base station, where the data packet may include a UUID. For example, each LoRa terminal may transmit its UUID to the first LoRa communication base station within its signal coverage area via periodic heartbeat packets.

The first LoRa communication base station extracts the identification of the LoRa terminal in the data packet, stores the identification in the first database, and can understand that the first LoRa communication base station extracts the data packet sent by each LoRa terminal in the signal coverage range of the first LoRa communication base station so as to obtain the UUID of each LoRa terminal, and then stores the UUID of each LoRa terminal in the database of the first LoRa communication base station.

In an optional embodiment of the invention, the method further comprises:

In this embodiment, the first LoRa communication base station is any LoRa communication base station, and the first LoRa communication base station sends the identity of the LoRa terminal to the cloud platform server when a communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is not interrupted; so that the cloud platform server stores the identity of the LoRa terminal in the signal coverage range of all the LoRa communication base stations.

In an optional embodiment of the present invention, the determining whether the second identifier is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a preset condition is met includes:

In this embodiment, the condition that the communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is interrupted may be that the communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is interrupted at will, which is not limited herein, and as an example, the condition that the communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is interrupted may be an emergency communication scenario such as a remote mountain area, a weak signal communication area such as a concert, and a situation that a security communication scenario of an intelligence agency is weak or a cellular signal is shielded, or may also be that the communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is interrupted in response to an abnormal situation such as an earthquake and a field environment during a communication process.

Under the condition that a communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and a cloud platform server is interrupted, judging whether the second identity is stored in a first database obtained in advance or not, and respectively comparing the second identity with the identity of each terminal in the first database under the condition that the communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is interrupted to obtain a comparison result; determining that the second identity identifier is stored in the first database under the condition that the comparison result shows that the identity identifier which is the same as the second identity identifier exists in the database; and determining that the second identity identifier is not stored in the first database under the condition that the comparison result shows that the identity identifier which is the same as the second identity identifier does not exist in the first database. Comparing the second identity with the identity of each terminal in the first database respectively can be understood as comparing the second identity with the identity of each terminal in the first database one by one.

In an optional embodiment of the invention, the method further comprises:

In this embodiment, the first LoRa communication base station refers to any LoRa communication base station in a broad sense, the cloud platform server may also be referred to as an LoRa communication management network cloud platform, the cloud platform server may manage a plurality of LoRa communication base stations, each LoRa communication base station is located in a plurality of LoRa terminals in a signal coverage range of the LoRa communication base station, and for convenience of description, the LoRa communication base station may be understood with reference to fig. 4, but only one LoRa communication base station 2 is shown in fig. 4, and other LoRa communication base stations are not shown, and are not limited herein. In practical application, the cloud platform server 3 may correspond to a plurality of LoRa communication base stations 2, and each LoRa communication base station 2 corresponds to a plurality of LoRa terminals 1.

Under the condition that a communication link between the first loRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is not interrupted, the first loRa communication base station sends the first identity and the second identity to the cloud platform server, wherein the condition that the communication link between the first loRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is smooth (not blocked) can be understood by the cloud platform server, and the first loRa communication base station sends the first identity and the second identity to the cloud platform server.

The cloud platform server is used for establishing communication connection with the first LoRa terminal based on the first identity, and establishing communication connection with the second LoRa terminal based on the second identity; the first LoRa terminal may be a calling terminal, the second LoRa terminal may be a called terminal, the first identity may be a UUID of the calling terminal, and the second identity may be a UUID of the called terminal. The cloud platform server can establish communication connection with the calling terminal based on the UUID of the calling terminal, and can also establish communication connection with the called terminal based on the UUID of the called terminal. As an example, the communication connection may be a data connection.

Establishing the communication link between the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal based on the communication connection with the first LoRa terminal and the communication connection with the second LoRa terminal may be understood as that the cloud platform server establishes the communication link between the calling terminal and the called terminal based on the communication connection with the calling terminal and the communication connection with the called terminal.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a communication device based on the LoRa technology according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 5, the communication device 200 includes: a receiving unit 201, a judging unit 202 and a establishing unit 203, wherein:

the receiving unit 201 is configured to receive a communication request of a first LoRa terminal; determining a second identity of a second LoRa terminal as a called terminal based on the communication request; the communication request comprises a first identity identifier of the first LoRa terminal as a calling terminal.

The determining unit 202 is configured to determine whether the second identity identifier determined by the receiving unit 201 is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a preset condition is met, so as to obtain a determination result; the first database stores the identity identifications of a plurality of LoRa terminals in the signal coverage range of the first LoRa communication base station.

The establishing unit 203 is configured to establish a communication connection with the second LoRa terminal according to the second identity if the determination result obtained by the determining unit 202 indicates that the second identity is stored in the first database, and establish a communication link between the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal based on the communication connection with the first LoRa terminal and the communication connection with the second LoRa terminal.

In other embodiments, the apparatus 200 further comprises: an extraction unit, wherein:

the receiving unit 201 is further configured to receive a data packet sent by an LoRa terminal; the LoRa terminal is any terminal in the signal coverage range of the first LoRa communication base station.

In other embodiments, the apparatus 200 further comprises: the sending unit is used for sending the identity of the LoRa terminal to a cloud platform server; and a communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is not interrupted.

In other embodiments, the determining unit 202 is further configured to determine whether the second identity is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and a cloud platform server is interrupted.

In other embodiments, the sending unit is further configured to send the first identity identifier and the second identity identifier to the cloud platform server under the condition that a communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is not interrupted, where the cloud platform server is configured to establish a communication connection with the first LoRa terminal based on the first identity identifier, establish a communication connection with the second LoRa terminal based on the second identity identifier, and establish a communication link between the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal based on the communication connection with the first LoRa terminal and the communication connection with the second LoRa terminal.

The above description of the apparatus embodiments, similar to the above description of the method embodiments, has similar beneficial effects as the method embodiments. For technical details not disclosed in the embodiments of the apparatus according to the invention, reference is made to the description of the embodiments of the method according to the invention for understanding.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, if the communication method based on the LoRa technology is implemented in the form of a software functional module and sold or used as a standalone product, the communication method may also be stored in a computer readable storage medium. With this understanding, technical embodiments of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a communication base station (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) based on the LoRa technology to perform all or part of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes, such as a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a Read Only Memory (ROM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk. Thus, embodiments of the invention are not limited to any specific combination of hardware and software.

Correspondingly, an embodiment of the present invention provides a communication base station based on an LoRa technology, where the communication base station includes: the system comprises a processor, a memory, a LoRa communication module and an Ethernet communication module; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the LoRa communication module is used for communicating with a LoRa terminal;

the Ethernet communication module is used for communicating with the cloud platform server;

the memory for storing a computer program;

the processor is configured to implement the steps in the communication method based on the LoRa technique provided in the foregoing embodiment when the computer program stored in the memory is executed.

Correspondingly, an embodiment of the present invention provides a communication terminal based on an LoRa technique, where the communication terminal includes: the system comprises a processor, a memory and a LoRa communication module; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the memory for storing a computer program;

Correspondingly, the embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when being executed by a processor, implements the steps in the communication method based on the LoRa technique provided by the above-mentioned embodiment.

Here, it should be noted that: the above description of the storage medium and device embodiments is similar to the description of the method embodiments above, with similar advantageous effects as the method embodiments. For technical details not disclosed in the embodiments of the storage medium and the apparatus according to the invention, reference is made to the description of the embodiments of the method according to the invention.

It should be noted that fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a hardware entity structure of a communication base station based on the LoRa technology in the embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 6, the hardware entity of the communication base station 300 based on the LoRa technology includes: the communication base station 300 based on the LoRa technology may further include an ethernet communication module 302, and the processor 301, the memory 303, and the LoRa communication module 304.

It will be appreciated that the memory 303 can be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, and can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. Among them, the nonvolatile Memory may be a Read Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable Read Only Memory (PROM), an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), a magnetic random access Memory (FRAM), a Flash Memory (Flash Memory), a magnetic surface Memory, an optical disk, or a Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM); the magnetic surface storage may be disk storage or tape storage. Volatile memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. By way of illustration and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Synchronous Static Random Access Memory (SSRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (DDRSDRAM), Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (ESDRAM), Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (Enhanced DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SLDRAM), Direct Memory (DRmb Access), and Random Access Memory (DRAM). The memory 303 described in connection with the embodiments of the invention is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

The method disclosed in the above embodiments of the present invention may be applied to the processor 301, or implemented by the processor 301. The processor 301 may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware or instructions in the form of software in the processor 301. The Processor 301 may be a general purpose Processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware components, or the like. Processor 301 may implement or perform the methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed by the embodiment of the invention can be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or can be implemented by combining hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software modules may be located in a storage medium located in the memory 303, and the processor 301 reads the information in the memory 303 and performs the steps of the aforementioned methods in conjunction with its hardware.

In an exemplary embodiment, the LoRa technology-based communication base station may be implemented by one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), DSPs, Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), general purpose processors (gpus), controllers, Micro Controllers (MCUs), microprocessors (microprocessors), or other electronic components for performing the foregoing methods.

It should be noted that fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of a hardware entity structure of a communication terminal based on the LoRa technology in the embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 7, the hardware entity of the communication terminal 400 based on the LoRa technology includes: the processor 401 and the memory 403, optionally, the communication terminal 400 based on the LoRa technology may further include an LoRa communication module 402.

It will be appreciated that the memory 403 can be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, and can include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. Among them, the nonvolatile Memory may be a Read Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable Read Only Memory (PROM), an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), a magnetic random access Memory (FRAM), a Flash Memory (Flash Memory), a magnetic surface Memory, an optical disk, or a Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM); the magnetic surface storage may be disk storage or tape storage. Volatile memory can be Random Access Memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. By way of illustration and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Synchronous Static Random Access Memory (SSRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (DDRSDRAM), Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (ESDRAM), Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (Enhanced DRAM), Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SLDRAM), Direct Memory (DRmb Access), and Random Access Memory (DRAM). The memory 403 described in connection with the embodiments of the invention is intended to comprise, without being limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

The method disclosed in the above embodiments of the present invention may be applied to the processor 401, or implemented by the processor 401. The processor 401 may be an integrated circuit chip having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the above method may be performed by integrated logic circuits of hardware or instructions in the form of software in the processor 401. The Processor 401 described above may be a general purpose Processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware components, or the like. Processor 401 may implement or perform the methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method disclosed by the embodiment of the invention can be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or can be implemented by combining hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software modules may be located in a storage medium located in memory 403, and processor 401 reads the information in memory 403 and performs the steps of the foregoing method in conjunction with its hardware.

In the embodiments provided in the present invention, it should be understood that the disclosed method and apparatus can be implemented in other ways. The above-described device embodiments are merely illustrative, for example, the division of the unit is only a logical functional division, and there may be other division ways in actual implementation, such as: multiple units or components may be combined, or may be integrated into another observation, or some features may be omitted, or not performed. In addition, the communication connections between the components shown or discussed may be through interfaces, indirect couplings or communication connections of devices or units, and may be electrical, mechanical or other.

The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, that is, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units; some or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the embodiment.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: all or part of the steps for realizing the method embodiments can be completed by hardware related to program instructions, the program can be stored in a computer readable storage medium, and the program executes the steps comprising the method embodiments when executed; and the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media that can store program codes, such as a removable Memory device, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

Alternatively, the integrated unit according to the embodiment of the present invention may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium if it is implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as a separate product. With this understanding, technical embodiments of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a communication base station (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) based on the LoRa technology to perform all or part of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a removable storage device, a ROM, a magnetic or optical disk, or other various media that can store program code.

The communication method, apparatus, base station and storage medium based on the LoRa technique described in the embodiments of the present invention are only examples of the embodiments of the present invention, but are not limited thereto, and the communication method, apparatus, base station and storage medium based on the LoRa technique are within the scope of the present invention.

It should be appreciated that reference throughout this specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus, the appearances of the phrases "in one embodiment" or "in an embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. It should be understood that, in various embodiments of the present invention, the sequence numbers of the above-mentioned processes do not mean the execution sequence, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by its function and inherent logic, and should not constitute any limitation on the implementation process of the embodiments of the present invention. The above-mentioned serial numbers of the embodiments of the present invention are merely for description and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The above description is only an embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all such changes or substitutions are included in the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. A communication method based on long-range radio LoRa technology, the method comprising:

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determining whether the second identifier is stored in a first database obtained in advance when a preset condition is met comprises:

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

6. A communication apparatus based on long range radio LoRa technology, the apparatus comprising: receiving unit, judgement unit and establishment unit, wherein:

7. The apparatus of claim 6, further comprising: an extraction unit, wherein:

8. The apparatus of claim 7, further comprising: the sending unit is used for sending the identity of the LoRa terminal to a cloud platform server; and a communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is not interrupted.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the determining unit is further configured to determine whether the second identity is stored in a first database obtained in advance, in a case that a communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and a cloud platform server is interrupted.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the sending unit is further configured to send the first identity and the second identity to the cloud platform server when a communication link between the first LoRa communication base station and the cloud platform server is not interrupted, where the cloud platform server is configured to establish a communication connection with the first LoRa terminal based on the first identity, establish a communication connection with the second LoRa terminal based on the second identity, and establish a communication link between the first LoRa terminal and the second LoRa terminal based on the communication connection with the first LoRa terminal and the communication connection with the second LoRa terminal.

11. A communication base station based on long range radio LoRa technology, comprising: the system comprises a processor, a memory, a LoRa communication module and an Ethernet communication module; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the LoRa communication module is used for communicating with a LoRa terminal;

the memory for storing a computer program;

the processor, when executing the computer program stored in the memory, is configured to perform the steps of the method of any of claims 1 to 5.

12. A communication terminal based on long range radio LoRa technology, the communication terminal comprising: the system comprises a processor, a memory and a LoRa communication module; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the memory for storing a computer program;

13. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the method of any one of claims 1 to 5.