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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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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7727831/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33255405 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20236721 |
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author | Yasmin, Rumana Mikhaylov, Konstantin Pouttu, Ari |
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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 | pubmed-77278312020-12-11 LoRaWAN for Smart Campus: Deployment and Long-Term Operation Analysis Yasmin, Rumana Mikhaylov, Konstantin Pouttu, Ari Sensors (Basel) Article 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. MDPI 2020-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7727831/ /pubmed/33255405 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20236721 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Yasmin, Rumana Mikhaylov, Konstantin Pouttu, Ari LoRaWAN for Smart Campus: Deployment and Long-Term Operation Analysis |
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 | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7727831/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33255405 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20236721 |
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