An OTAA LoRaWAN end device is identified by: a DevEUI (a 64-bit device-unique identifier, similar in spirit to a MAC address), an AppEUI/JoinEUI (a 64-bit application owner identifier) and an AppKey (a 128-bit pre-shared secret used for the OTAA Join procedure).
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The DevEUI is 8 bytes long and is unique per device — it is either IEEE-assigned (a real EUI-64 from a registered OUI) or vendor-assigned. The JoinEUI (called AppEUI in LoRaWAN 1.0) is also 8 bytes and identifies the application or its owner so that the Join Server knows where to route the Join Request. The AppKey is a 16-byte secret shared between the device and the Join Server, used to authenticate the Join procedure. During the Join, the device and the Network Server derive the session keys (NwkSKey and AppSKey in 1.0, four keys in 1.1) and the Network Server assigns a DevAddr dynamically.
Never reuse the same DevEUI across two devices, even in lab environments — duplicate DevEUIs cause silent Join Accept collisions that are notoriously hard to debug from the device side.
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