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Overview of the system
Wittras sensor tags, mesh-routers and gateway together form a mesh network based on 6LoWPAN
(IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks). The network is IP-enabled down to the
sensor tags, where data is communicated wirelessly over IEEE 802.15.4g radios in the Sub-GHz RF
band.
The data can easily be accessed via our Wittra portal by adding an integration; For further
information please have a look at Accessing your data.
Mesh network
In a mesh network, data can be routed from one node to another to reach the end destination (in
our case a gateway). In comparison, in a star network all nodes would communicate directly with
a central hub.
By using a mesh network we extend the range of a network further than one single hop. Mesh
networks are self-healing in the sense that data can be re-routed when nodes fail along the path.
In our mesh network we have sensor tags, mesh-routers and a border-router (attached to a
gateway).
A sensor tag acts as a leaf node in a mesh network topology, which means that it will only
produce and send data but not forward data packets from other devices. Thus, the radio of a

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