LoRaWAN for Smart City IoT Deployments: A Long Term Evaluation

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 20; no. 3; p. 648
• Main Authors: Basford, Philip J, Bulot, Florentin M J, Apetroaie-Cristea, Mihaela, Cox, Simon J, Ossont, Steven J J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 23.01.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: Accuracy; Air monitoring; Air quality; Commercial off-the-shelf technology; communication networks; Gateways; Global positioning systems; GPS; Infrastructure; Internet of Things; Localization; lorawan; Protocol; Satellites; Smart cities; smart city; Wide area networks; Wireless communications; Wireless networks; wireless sensor networks; wireless sensor networks; Internet of Things; communication networks; LoRaWAN; smart city
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s20030648

LoRaWAN is a Low-PowerWide Area Network (LPWAN) technology designed for Internetof Things (IoT) deployments; this paper presents experiences from deploying a city-scale network across Southampton, UK. This network was deployed to support an installation of air quality monitors and to explore the capabilities of . This deployment uses a mixture of commercial off-the-shelf gateways and custom gateways. These gateway locations were chosen based on network access, site permission and accessibility, and are not necessarily the best locations theoretically. Over 135,000 messages have been transmitted by the twenty devices analysed. Over the course of the complete deployment, 72 . 4 of the messages were successfully received by the data server. Of the messages that were received, 99 were received within 10 s of transmission. We conclude that is an applicable communication technology for city-scale air quality monitoring and other smart city applications.