One unique selling point of LoRaBridge 2 is that our custom home automation gateway can be mounted far away from a user. To test this, we mounted our hardware into a weather proof enclosure and powered the gateway Raspberry PI with a beefy powerbank. As test cases we selected one indoor and one outdoor scenario. The former scenario represents a use-case, e.g. in a tower block, where tenants have installed automations on ground floor/cellar. The latter scenario represents a gardening use-case, where outdoor garden resides within some hundreds of meters from an apartment building. 

At each location, we transferred a test automation, consisting of smart lightbulb controlled via motion sensor, to the automation gateway. Even with the limited LoRaWAN downlink capacity, we were able to establish the automations within a few minutes in both scenarios. Hence, we are optimistic to assume that LoRaBridge based automation setup can support for even more complex automation configurations (e.g. sensor groups/light groups) and still manage successful configuration update within a reasonable time. 

After test with mobile testbed, we shifted our focus to finish the last missing features such as event notifications. So far the project runs good within the planned timeframe and we're already keen making the sources public.