For those that don't know, LoRaWAN is an IoT networking technology. The main features are:
The sensors or things are generally very low power, with battery-lives of 10+ years.
The data bandwidth is very low, often a few bytes a second.
The connection range can be very high, 10+ kilometres.
The sensors or things can go in places where there's no wiring, power or wifi, and they can relay messages for almost unlimited distance coverage.
Example usage:
Car park sensors - is there something in this space?
Sonic sensors - how much fluid is in this tank?
Current sensors - how much power is this thing using?
Location sensors - where's my thing?
Movement sensors - is my thing being hit?
Weight sensors - how full is my thing?
etc, etc
The common use case would be to hook up to something like Prometheus or Influx time-series databases for recording measurements over time, then Grafana for charting time-series data, and NodeRED for reacting to measurements as required, perhaps with alerts or responses.
As you can see, we have 2 of the 4 components (Prometheus & Grafana) to make Cloudron a rapid IoT development platform stack.
I can think of many use-cases, the easier this is made, the more things people can come up with?
It's Thursday, did I put the bins/trash out?
Did I leave the oven/lights on?
Where's my kid?
Then for businesses:
How many people walked through my doors?
What's being used?
What needs replacing?
Hopefully that helps explain, and Chirpstack does seem to be the de-facto in this areas, as much as Prometheus, Grafana and NodeRED seem to be the de-facto apps in their areas.
Plus, this is another reason why Cloudron on Raspberry Pii etc is good, as it can give another use-case for off-grid servers that only have a need within a building or property but no need for the outside world to access.