Private Networks · CBRS / Private LTE + LoRaWAN

One site. Two radios. One operating system.

Cameras, AI vision and automation need the throughput of private LTE on CBRS. Battery sensors spread across miles need the range and decade-long life of LoRaWAN. Senzary runs both on a single private network — and unifies every reading inside IoT-LogIQ.

3.5 GHz
CBRS band 48
6–10 mi
LoRaWAN reach
0
SIM & carrier fees
Site coverage · live
Both layers up
Small cell Gateway
CBRS / Private LTE — high throughput
LoRaWAN — long range, battery
Why public networks fall short

For industrial operations, wireless is the fourth utility — and the public grid keeps failing it.

Public LTE and Wi-Fi were built for phones and offices, not refineries, ports and 180-facility operations. Three gaps push enterprises onto private spectrum.

Coverage

The signal never reaches

Public towers stop at the property line. Wi-Fi dies past a few hundred feet and won't punch through steel, concrete or tank farms. Remote pump stations and substations simply go dark.

Capacity

The pipe is already full

When a network is congested, telemetry from thousands of devices crawls or drops. Mission-critical data can't wait behind consumer traffic on a shared public channel.

Control

Your data leaves your fence

Regulated sites need data that never touches a carrier's core. No SIM-level whitelisting, no deterministic latency, no guarantee — no deal for OT security teams.

Where it pays off — in plain terms

Wi-Fi was built for the coffee shop. Your operation isn't a coffee shop.

Wi-Fi drops when you walk to the far end of the building. It chokes when too many devices pile on. And anyone in the parking lot can see it's there. A private network on CBRS — paired with LoRaWAN for the small stuff — fixes all three. Here's what that looks like, site by site.

2–3×
the range of Wi-Fi
One CBRS radio covers what four or five Wi-Fi access points would
96
devices per radio, no slowdown
Traffic gets prioritized — critical data never waits in line
SIM-locked
only your devices get on
No password to leak, no rogue laptop, no guesswork
Stays in
your data never leaves the building
Nothing rides a public carrier or the open internet to get home
1 CBRS radio magenta = LoRaWAN pallet & forklift tags
Private LTE / CBRS LoRaWAN

Warehousing & 3PL

Scanners, tablets and autonomous forklifts need a signal that holds from the dock door to the back wall — through steel racking packed with inventory. One CBRS radio blankets the whole floor; LoRaWAN tags track pallets, dock-door status and forklift location for pennies a year.

Versus Wi-Fi: a warehouse usually needs a forest of access points, and handheld scanners still drop signal between aisles. One private radio replaces most of them — and a roaming scanner hands off cleanly instead of disconnecting.
indigo = cameras & controllers · magenta = motor / leak sensors
Private LTE / CBRS LoRaWAN

Refineries & energy plants

Safety cameras and control systems ride the private LTE network, where a held connection and fast response actually matter. Out on the tank farm, battery sensors watch motor vibration, valve leaks and gas in the air — and run for years without anyone touching them. Predictive maintenance on 200+ motors, no new cable trenched.

Why not public cellular: a refinery can't have its safety video and equipment data sitting on a carrier's network behind everyone else's phone traffic. On a private network it stays inside the fence, and it keeps working when the public network is congested.
indigo = ground vehicles & equipment · magenta = baggage / asset tags
Private LTE / CBRS LoRaWAN

Ports, airports & logistics

Ground vehicles and equipment stay connected as they move across acres of apron and yard — the kind of seamless hand-off Wi-Fi can't do. LoRaWAN handles the quiet jobs: baggage telemetry, asset tracking, even restroom and concession sensors spread across the terminals.

Versus Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi can't cover open yards and aprons, and a vehicle crossing between access points keeps dropping. Private LTE covers the whole area from far fewer points and hands moving vehicles off without a hiccup.
no public tower for miles indigo = active face · magenta = perimeter sensors & worker badges
Private LTE / CBRS LoRaWAN

Mining & remote operations

A site can span square miles with no public tower in sight. Private LTE covers the active working face for vehicles and video; LoRaWAN reaches all the way out to perimeter sensors and worker-safety badges — places where nothing else will reach. When the public grid is simply not there, you bring your own.

The honest reality: Wi-Fi and public cellular both quit at the property edge. A private network is the only thing that covers the whole operation, and it's built to keep running through the outage that takes the public network down.
magenta blanket = LoRaWAN sensing · indigo = camera / response zone
LoRaWAN Private LTE / CBRS

Smart cities & campuses

LoRaWAN blankets a district with environmental, waste-bin and crowd sensors that sip battery for years. Private LTE handles the heavy hitters — cameras and emergency response — where the district needs them. Both feed Campus360 and SmartCity dashboards inside IoT-LogIQ.

Why both: no single radio fits a whole city. The wide, cheap layer carries thousands of sensors; the fast, private layer carries the video. The platform stitches them into one picture.
The honest answer: it depends on the device

No single radio wins a real site. So we run the two that complement each other.

Private LTE on CBRS and LoRaWAN sit at opposite ends of the wireless spectrum — and that's exactly why they pair so well. Match the link to the job.

What you're connecting
Private LTE · CBRS
LoRaWAN
ThroughputVideo, AI vision, file transfer
High — streams 4K cameras & edge AI
Tiny payloads only — readings, not video
Range per radioCoverage from one point
Tens of thousands of sq ft per small cell
6–10 miles line-of-sight per gateway
Battery lifeField device endurance
Powered / frequently charged devices
5–10 years on a coin cell
Latency & QoSTime-critical control
Deterministic, prioritized traffic
Best-effort, periodic reporting
Recurring costPer-device economics
SIM-managed; free Tier-3 CBRS spectrum
No SIM, no carrier, no monthly fee
Best fitWhere it shines
Cameras, autonomous equipment, AR/VR, PLC backhaul, vehicles
Temperature, vibration, level, leak, worker-safety badges, asset trackers
The hybrid stack

Three hops from sensor to screen — across both radios, into one platform.

Each sensor whispers its data. A gateway or small cell hears every whisper across the site and forwards it to the cloud. No wires to trench, no carrier in the middle. IoT-LogIQ is where it all becomes operational intelligence.

01 · EDGE

Devices & sensors

  • LoRaWAN sensors — vibration, temp, level, leak
  • Nodes on analog, digital, Modbus & serial ports
  • Cameras & PLCs on private LTE
  • Worker-safety badges & trackers
02 · ACCESS

Private radio layer

  • CBRS small cells in the 3.5 GHz band
  • LoRaWAN gateways, 6–10 mi reach
  • SIM-secured device whitelisting
  • Optional public-LTE / Starlink fallback
03 · CORE

On-site core & edge

  • Private packet core — data stays on your network
  • LoRaWAN network server
  • Edge compute for low-latency reactions
  • Spectrum Access System for CBRS channels
04 · INTELLIGENCE

IoT-LogIQ platform

  • Smart Industry model: Company → Location → Area → Asset → Device
  • Unifies both radios into one data model
  • MCP servers & AI analysis on every reading
  • Predictive maintenance, safety & compliance
The hardware, in the open

Real radios, real gateways — the kit that stands the network up.

Two boxes run the private cellular side: a local 5G/LTE core server and the CBRS radio that talks to your devices. Two Kerlink gateways run the LoRaWAN side — one for outdoors, one for inside. All four report into IoT-LogIQ.

FreedomFi 5G gateway — local LTE/5G core server, built with Sercomm
Local 5G core

FreedomFi 5G Gateway

Sercomm-built · 4-core x86 · 3× GbE · runs the on-site packet core

The brain of the private cellular network. It runs the local core so your data is processed and kept on-site, and drives up to three CBRS radios. No carrier in the middle.

Baicells Nova430 CBRS outdoor LTE radio for the 3.5 GHz band
CBRS radio

Baicells CBRS Radio

Nova430 · 3.5 GHz band 48 · outdoor-rated · ~96 devices/carrier

The CBRS small cell that actually broadcasts the private signal — 2–3× the reach of Wi-Fi, with prioritized traffic. Plugs into the FreedomFi gateway and covers the site.

Kerlink Wirnet iStation outdoor LoRaWAN gateway, IP67
LoRaWAN · outdoor

Kerlink Wirnet iStation

8-channel · IP67 · 4G / Ethernet / Wi-Fi backhaul · GPS

The carrier-grade outdoor gateway. Sealed against weather, it hears battery sensors across miles of plant, yard or city and forwards every reading to IoT-LogIQ.

Kerlink Wirnet iFemtoCell indoor LoRaWAN gateway
LoRaWAN · indoor

Kerlink Wirnet iFemtoCell

Compact indoor · 10-channel · Ethernet / Wi-Fi / cellular backhaul

The indoor LoRaWAN gateway for deep coverage — basements, parking, elevator shafts, factory floors. Small, quiet and easy to mount wherever the sensors are.

Why private, why both

The control of a private network. The economics of LoRaWAN. The intelligence of IoT-LogIQ.

Data stays inside the fence

On a private network, telemetry never leaves your infrastructure. SIM-level authentication controls exactly which devices connect — built for regulated energy, utility and industrial sites.

Deterministic where it counts

Private LTE delivers prioritized, fixed-latency links for cameras, automation and control — so critical traffic keeps moving when a public network would buckle.

Decade-long sensor life

LoRaWAN sensors run 5–10 years on a single cell across miles of plant — no trenching, no SIMs, no monthly fees. Blanket a site in instrumentation for a fraction of wired cost.

One model, every reading

Throughput from LTE and telemetry from LoRaWAN land in the same Smart Industry hierarchy — so you analyze the asset, not the protocol it spoke.

Resilient by design

Add small cells for redundancy and fall back to public LTE or Starlink on the same hardware. Coverage that survives the outage that takes the public grid down.

AI at the edge & in the cloud

Edge compute reacts in milliseconds; IoT-LogIQ's MCP servers and AI analysis surface predictive maintenance, safety risks and compliance signals across the whole operation.

Connectivity is a means — operational control is the goal

Let's design the right network for your site.

Tell us what you're connecting and where. We'll map the CBRS, LoRaWAN and fallback layers, size the gateways and small cells, and show you what it looks like inside IoT-LogIQ — before you commit a dollar.

Stop waste. Gain control. Be safe. Real time. Every time.