Fee Money for having a LoRaWAN on your house

Only if I was desperate for money, besides not wanting an eyesore of an antenna on the house, I can imagine the terms of whatever you need to sign up to would be a nuisance when selling the house.
 
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In some ways it seems like free money (£3,500 after 10 years? There's a nice new OLED TV and a gaming PC) but I think I'd be leaving towards the sceptical side.

If it needs power then there will have to be some kind of internal installation. What if they want to inspect it? What if you need to get some electrical work done, will they complain if the power's off or want to inspect it themselves? Will it affect the value of your house when you come to sell (might well do, some people won't be keen on having that on a house), and can you get it removed?

If it was more like £1000/year it would be a lot more tempting.
 
As others have said, you would need to make sure it could easily be removed in the event of a house move or the business fails.

Werewolf said:
I remember a lot of people in my area ending up with those funny little telephone receivers on the sides of their houses for many years after the company that fitted them went bust, although that was a different thing as it was something to do with a telephone service. Now I've remembered it I can't for the life of me remember the name of the company, or find anything about them on google :p
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Sounds like Ionica; was reasonably popular around here and you still occasionally see houses with the octagonal antenna mounted to the side of the house.
 
Not for £350 a year. That's paltry considering the benefit you are giving them. £350 may seem like a reasonable amount for doing nothing but if you consider the value you are offering the company it is worth a lot more. I would maybe consider it for £1k+ a year. But also make sure there are appropriate agreements in place if you want it removed, notice periods for them to access it, etc.
 
Didn't the developer rush to get your house finished?

I'm going to guess they forgot to install this in a mast somewhere, like why would they not just stick it on a street light?
 
visibleman said:
As others have said, you would need to make sure it could easily be removed in the event of a house move or the business fails.


Sounds like Ionica; was reasonably popular around here and you still occasionally see houses with the octagonal antenna mounted to the side of the house.
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That's the one, I think about 5 houses on my street had them at one point and I seem to remember the last one only going down a few years back when one of the houses had it's sofits etc replaced.

Azza said:
Didn't the developer rush to get your house finished?

I'm going to guess they forgot to install this in a mast somewhere, like why would they not just stick it on a street light?
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Street lights are far less permanent than houses and it's far more likely to get damaged or disturbed on a street light with little warning as they're relying on both the council and all it's contractors and subcontractors to remember/be aware of what it is and that it needs to be replaced if any work is done to the street light, if it's on a house (especially a new build) they can be fairly sure it's not going to be disturbed for potentially 10-15 years minimum (and it's probably easier/cheaper overall).

I've seen some of the street lamps on my road be replaced about 4 times in the last 20 years, either because of damage to the actual post, or because the lamp head has failed and they've not got a suitable replacement or they've done a scheduled roll out of new standard posts and taken down all the "old" ones, even if some were only a couple of years old so that they've got all the posts to the current standard and same style as it's much cheaper long term to replace a few fairly new ones than skip them and worry about spares for multiple styles/ages of post (most of the cost of replacing the post is probably the work crew and equipment if it's being done one at a time).
Basically if it's on a streetlight you've got a higher risk of damage to the thing it's on, and a higher risk of it being disturbed/removed during "routine" works.

However it might be they've got the housing in they've discovered they've got blind spots in the coverage so didn't originally plan on having one at all.
 
Ive got one on my roof :) - Mine is owned by me though and not some company! mine is also on top of the roof rather than tagged to the side of my house so you cant really see it or know it is there.
 
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I've decided not to go ahead. For anyone wanting to know, the company is called Netmore. I'm not sure what the terms are that I would have to sign but I would have thought internal access would not be needed after the installation as I assume it's only powered by a standard 13amp socket.

It's nothing to do with the housing developer though. Maybe if I was skint or pre-lottery win then I might have been all over it but you are right, I don't need that extra £350 a year. :D
 
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