LoRaWAN for Smart Campus: Deployment and Long-Term Operation Analysis
The recent years have gradually increased the value of wireless connectivity, making it the de facto commodity for both human users and the machines. In this paper, we summarize our experiences of deploying and managing for over two years the extensive indoor sensor network composed of more than thr...
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| description | The recent years have gradually increased the value of wireless connectivity, making it the de facto commodity for both human users and the machines. In this paper, we summarize our experiences of deploying and managing for over two years the extensive indoor sensor network composed of more than three hundred devices connected over LoRaWAN low power wide area network (LPWAN) technology. We start by detailing the background and methodology of our deployment and then present the results of analyzing the network’s operation over a period of two years, focusing specifically on identifying the reasons after the packet losses. Our results reveal that despite the common assumptions, in a real-life network, the packets are lost not only during the on-air transmission but also within the backbone. Among the other interesting findings are the observed nonuniform distribution of the packet transmissions by the nodes in the networks, the seasonal effects on the packet delivery, and the observed effects of the interferences on network performance. The empirical results presented in the paper provide valuable insight into the performance of a real-life extensive LoRaWAN network deployed in an indoor environment and thus may be of interest both to the practitioners and academics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-46b2397afd4a443391c26ee740b757652023-11-20T22:10:10ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-11-012023672110.3390/s20236721LoRaWAN for Smart Campus: Deployment and Long-Term Operation AnalysisRumana Yasmin0Konstantin Mikhaylov1Ari Pouttu2Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 4500, 90014 Oulu, FinlandCentre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 4500, 90014 Oulu, FinlandCentre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 4500, 90014 Oulu, FinlandThe recent years have gradually increased the value of wireless connectivity, making it the de facto commodity for both human users and the machines. In this paper, we summarize our experiences of deploying and managing for over two years the extensive indoor sensor network composed of more than three hundred devices connected over LoRaWAN low power wide area network (LPWAN) technology. We start by detailing the background and methodology of our deployment and then present the results of analyzing the network’s operation over a period of two years, focusing specifically on identifying the reasons after the packet losses. Our results reveal that despite the common assumptions, in a real-life network, the packets are lost not only during the on-air transmission but also within the backbone. Among the other interesting findings are the observed nonuniform distribution of the packet transmissions by the nodes in the networks, the seasonal effects on the packet delivery, and the observed effects of the interferences on network performance. The empirical results presented in the paper provide valuable insight into the performance of a real-life extensive LoRaWAN network deployed in an indoor environment and thus may be of interest both to the practitioners and academics.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/23/6721LoRaWANIoTsmart campusexperimenttestbedempirical |
| spellingShingle | Rumana Yasmin Konstantin Mikhaylov Ari Pouttu LoRaWAN for Smart Campus: Deployment and Long-Term Operation Analysis Sensors LoRaWAN IoT smart campus experiment testbed empirical |
| title | LoRaWAN for Smart Campus: Deployment and Long-Term Operation Analysis |
| title_full | LoRaWAN for Smart Campus: Deployment and Long-Term Operation Analysis |
| title_fullStr | LoRaWAN for Smart Campus: Deployment and Long-Term Operation Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | LoRaWAN for Smart Campus: Deployment and Long-Term Operation Analysis |
| title_short | LoRaWAN for Smart Campus: Deployment and Long-Term Operation Analysis |
| title_sort | lorawan for smart campus deployment and long term operation analysis |
| topic | LoRaWAN IoT smart campus experiment testbed empirical |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/23/6721 |
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