LoRaWAN for city scale IoT deployments

LoRaWAN is a Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technology designed for Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, this paper presents experiences gained from deploying a citywide LoRaWAN network across Southampton, UK. This network has been deployed to support an installation of air quality sensors and...

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Published in2019 Global IoT Summit (GIoTS) pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Basford, Philip J., Johnston, Steven J., Apetroaie-Cristea, Mihaela, Bulot, Florentin M. J., Cox, Simon J.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2019
Subjects
Air quality
Communication networks
Hardware
Internet of Things
Logic gates
Sensors
Urban areas
Wide area networks
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:LoRaWAN is a Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technology designed for Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, this paper presents experiences gained from deploying a citywide LoRaWAN network across Southampton, UK. This network has been deployed to support an installation of air quality sensors and to explore the LoRaWAN technology. This deployment uses a mixture of commercial off-the-shelf gateways and custom gateways. The custom gateways have required the development of a new printed circuit board interface which is available open-source. The gateway locations have been chosen based on combination of availability and predicted coverage. This paper shows that this approach has provided a reasonable coverage of the city.
DOI:10.1109/GIOTS.2019.8766359