chirpstack-gateway-os VS mainflux

FWIW, for building your own private network, there is no need to rely on something like TTN. ChirpStack (https://www.chirpstack.io/) is a very mature and easy to deploy LoRaWAN suite that's worth looking at!

Next, setup your own LoRaWAN Server on the Raspberry PI using ChirpStack: https://www.chirpstack.io/

I saw that Reticulum (https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/) is already using I2P for Internet communication. What I would like to create is a similar infrastructure but a bit more advanced using Chirpstack (https://www.chirpstack.io/) servers connected between each other over I2P. Everyone who wants to use the infrastructure can connect a limited number of sensors for each Chirpstack server available nearby. If they want to join more sensors, or improve the infrastructure, they can give their contribute joining new Chirpstack servers to I2P network.

My setup involved https://www.chirpstack.io/ feeding data to self-hosted InfluxDB (or FarmOS via our code at https://github.com/mockingbirdconsulting/FarmOSMQTT), with dashboards in Grafana. I started to write my own dashboard that had dedicated overview screens etc, but it was a serious effort for very little reward.

You can easily setup your own offline LoRaWAN Server Stack on a Raspberry Pi, for example this one https://www.chirpstack.io/, thats what I did. Therefore I would definitely recommend the use LoRaWAN instead of only the LoRa Modulation.

https://www.chirpstack.io/ is a complete solution written in go & open source, including mqtt broker, app server, gateway, gateway bridge and more. It also comes with docker-compose for local development. I worked with it for a while, it's a good project.

If you want to get more involved and run your own infrastructure you could look at something like ChirpStack.

Hi! I'm a new Yocto user trying to develop a fork of Chirpstack's Gateway OS for Raspberry Pi based LoRaWAN gateways. Although I have successfully modified and added new recipes, I'm struggling with adding a USB cellular modem to my image.

For something more advanced you can look at this example but this is very advanced, its from an IoT platform written in Golang - https://github.com/mainflux/mainflux

There is lots of software to choose from, I suggest you have a look at Mainflux, and Mosquitto is popular for broker. Thingsboard is a turnkey solution, it's nice in some ways, but also very slow and heavy. Other options to research in this wikipedia article.