RF modules (LoRa et al)

Hmm, My understanding, which may be wrong, is that it would be up to the user (well, whatever you and I would be called) to decide if they wanted to have one node running continually, and call it a base station. I didn't see anything that implied that there had to be a single "special" node. In the case of the Whisker, they do have a base station, but I think that's specific to Whisker, not LoRa in general.