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Docker stack to setup a LoRaWAN infrastructure including a FROST-Server on a Raspberry Pi
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Docker stack to setup a LoRaWAN infrastructure including a FROST-Server on a Raspberry Pi

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## Docker stack including all software components to run a private LoRaWAN infrastructure on a Raspberry Pi



It's based on the docker-compose.yaml from the [ChirpStack](https://github.com/brocaar/chirpstack-docker).

project but also includes [Node-RED](https://nodered.org) and the [FROST-Server](https://github.com/FraunhoferIOSB/FROST-Server)

which the OCG [SensorThings API stanadard](https://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sensorthings) to store

sensor data 'the right way'.



The ChirpStack and the FROST-Server are sharing the included [PostgreSQL 11](https://postgresql.org) instance.

Node-RED is basically used to turn the sensor data published via [MQTT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQTT)

by the ChirpStack application server into [observations](https://docs.opengeospatial.org/is/15-078r6/15-078r6.html#31)

which are then posted via REST API to the FROST-Server. You need to setup the corresponding flows yourself!

A flow consists of a MQTT source connected to the ChirpStack application server, a function node to decode

the binary sensor payload and a HTTP output node to post an observation as JSON to the FROST-Server.



To run the stack on your Raspberry Pi just clone the repository, open the file `docker-compose.yaml`

with a text editor and replace the ip address for the option `serviceRootUrl` with the ip address

of your Raspberry Pi. Start the docker stack with `docker-compose up` in this directory and

grab a coffee. Docker will first download all required docker images (about 1.5 GB) and then

start eight services altogether. Don't worry about intermediate `ping PostgreSQL database` errors

during the initial setup process, it takes a while to create and configure a PostgreSQL instance

on a Raspberry Pi. Same holds true for the initial deployment of the FROST-Server (Java11/Tomcat9).



Eventually, when the load on your Raspberry Pi has settled (check with `top` in another terminal window),

you can connect to the ChirpStack UI with your favourite webbrowser at `http://:8000/`

replacing `` with the current ip address of your Raspberry Pi. The network-server is

configured for EU868 by default. Use a different configuration file from ``examples`` directory

if you need to switch to a different frequency band like US915. The FROST-Servers RESTful API is

 available at `http://:8080/FROST-Server/` and Node-RED at `http://:1880`.



If the stack was started successfully and all services are online (see above), hit Ctrl-C to stop

it followed by ``docker-compose start`` to restart it in the background. You should see only green

``done `` messages when restarting the stack.



The subdirectory `helper` contains a few shell scripts to reset the stack if you want to start

from scratch, to remove it altogether including all docker images and to grand the stack components

full access to the internet, for example if you need to install additional Node-RED nodes.



This stack was originally composed for a [barcamp](https://barcamptools.eu/SensorCamp/) session on

LoRaWAN infrastructure presented on the "2. Fachtagung Sensordaten" on the 13./14.11.2019 in Munich

and updated to recent ChirpStack components, FROST 1.14 and PostgreSQL/Postgis 11/2.5.1 in July 2021.