As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance connectivity and scalability for IoT deployments, Ubidots now offers a managed ChirpStack LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS). This infrastructure enables seamless integration between LoRaWAN gateways, devices, and Ubidots’ data platform — providing a fully managed, private, and secure environment for LoRaWAN communications.

Whether you’re deploying a small private network or a large-scale industrial LoRaWAN solution, the self-hosted LNS provides the flexibility and reliability required to ensure stable communication between your devices and the Ubidots cloud — all while maintaining compliance with your organization’s data-governance and security policies.

The amount of gateways and devices are determined by your plan:

The LNS rate limit is given by your global account limit:

Go to Ubidots -> Dev Center -> Plugins and create the Ubidots LoRa Network Server plugin:

Follow the the plugin creation steps and then hit the green mark icon to save the plugin:

After that, the plugin will be created:

Upon creating the plugin, you'll receive an email notification from service@ubidots.com with the subject "Your Ubidots LNS activation". This email contains:

After your first successful login, change the temporary password for security:

Applications group your devices and define how they communicate with your system. Create an application by navigating to the Applications tab in the left menu and then click the Add application button:

There fill in the application details and click Submit:

Device profiles define your device's capabilities and LoRaWAN parameters (version, codec, regional settings, etc.) In order to create a device profile do the following:

If your device isn't in the repository, manually fill in the required fields based on your device specifications.

Device templates are configurations that you can create and maintain for quickly setting up your devices. If your device is available in the LoRaWAN Device Repository, use the pre-configured template:

Now add your physical device to the application. Go to Applications and select your created application:

Then click Add device:

Fill in the device information:

After creating the device, you'll be taken to the OTAA Keys tab. here:

After that, you'll be able to see the device in the LNS dashboard:

Login to your Ubidots LNS dashboard and navigate to Gateways tab in the left menu and click Add gateway:

Fill in the gateway's information:

Scroll down and click Submit

Configure your physical gateway to connect to the Ubidots LNS using the appropriate regional endpoint according to your region:

On a RAK 7268 gateway, this configuration looks like:

Just replace nam1.cloud.thethings.network with lns.ubidots.com