WiFi and Bluetooth were never meant to be the radios used by a billion Internet of Things hats, umbrellas, irrigation systems, or any other device that makes a worldwide network of things interesting.

If you are interested in deploying LoRa — the low power long-range wireless technology — you might enjoy [Rui Santos’] project and video about using the ESP32 with the Arduino IDE to implement LoRa.

I've been aware of LoRa ("Long Range" radio comms) for a while - it comes up on the Arduino forums from time to time. There was a post yesterday where someone in Australia wanted to get measurements ...