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Understanding the Limits of LoRaWAN Open
Low-power wide area networking technology offers long-range communication, which enables new types of services. Several solutions exist; LoRaWAN is arguably the most adopted. It promises ubiquitous connectivity in outdoor IoT applications,…
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Long-range communications in unlicensed bands: the rising stars in the IoT and smart city scenarios Open
Connectivity is probably the most basic building block of the IoT paradigm. Up to now, the two main approaches to provide data access to things have been based on either multihop mesh networks using short-range communication technologies i…
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A Survey of LoRaWAN for IoT: From Technology to Application Open
LoRaWAN is one of the low power wide area network (LPWAN) technologies that have received significant attention by the research community in the recent years. It offers low-power, low-data rate communication over a wide range of covered ar…
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Known and Unknown Facts of LoRa Open
Long Range (LoRa) is a Low-power Wide-area Network technology designed for the Internet of Things. In recent years, it has gained significant momentum among industrial and research communities. Patented by Semtech, LoRa makes use of chirp …
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Internet of Mobile Things: Overview of LoRaWAN, DASH7, and NB-IoT in LPWANs Standards and Supported Mobility Open
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Modeling the Energy Performance of LoRaWAN Open
LoRaWAN is a flagship Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technology that has highly attracted much attention from the community in recent years. Many LoRaWAN end-devices, such as sensors or actuators, are expected not to be powered by the…
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An Internet-of-Things (IoT) Network System for Connected Safety and Health Monitoring Applications Open
This paper presents a hybrid wearable sensor network system towards the Internet of Things (IoT) connected safety and health monitoring applications. The system is aimed at improving safety in the outdoor workplace. The proposed system con…
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LPWAN Technologies: Emerging Application Characteristics, Requirements, and Design Considerations Open
Low power wide area network (LPWAN) is a promising solution for long range and low power Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) communication applications. This paper focuses on defining a systematic and powerful approach of…
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A Survey on LoRaWAN Technology: Recent Trends, Opportunities, Simulation Tools and Future Directions Open
Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies play a pivotal role in IoT applications, owing to their capability to meet the key IoT requirements (e.g., long range, low cost, small data volumes, massive device number, and low energy con…
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A Survey on LoRaWAN Architecture, Protocol and Technologies Open
Internet of Things (IoT) expansion led the market to find alternative communication technologies since existing protocols are insufficient in terms of coverage, energy consumption to fit IoT needs. Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) emer…
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Broad‐scale applications of the Raspberry Pi: A review and guide for biologists Open
The field of biology has seen tremendous technological progress in recent years, fuelled by the exponential growth in processing power and high‐level computing, and the rise of global information sharing. Low‐cost single‐board computers ar…
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A Survey on Adaptive Data Rate Optimization in LoRaWAN: Recent Solutions and Major Challenges Open
Long-Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) is a fast-growing communication system for Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) in the Internet of Things (IoTs) deployments. LoRaWAN is built to optimize LPWANs for battery lifetime, capacity, range,…
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Indoor deployment of low-power wide area networks (LPWAN): A LoRaWAN case study Open
The last decade saw the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, which aims to connect any object to the Internet. In this context, a new type of wireless communication network emerged known as Low-Power Wire-Area Network (LPWAN…
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Integration of LoRaWAN and 4G/5G for the Industrial Internet of Things Open
This work is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European
\nRegional Development Fund (projects TEC2016-76795-C6-4-R and UNGR15-CE-3311).
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Smart Agriculture Using IoT Multi-Sensors: A Novel Watering Management System Open
Advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) are helping to make water management smarter and optimizing consumption in the smart agriculture industry. This article proposes a new topology of sensor nodes based on the use of inexpensive and hi…
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A Low Power IoT Sensor Node Architecture for Waste Management Within Smart Cities Context Open
This paper focuses on the realization of an Internet of Things (IoT) architecture to optimize waste management in the context of Smart Cities. In particular, a novel typology of sensor node based on the use of low cost and low power compon…
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An Internet of Energy Things Based on Wireless LPWAN Open
Under intense environmental pressure, the global energy sector is promoting the integration of renewable energy into interconnected energy systems. The demand-side management (DSM) of energy systems has drawn considerable industrial and ac…
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Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT): From Physical (PHY) and Media Access Control (MAC) Layers Perspectives Open
Narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) is a recent cellular radio access technology based on Long-Term Evolution (LTE) introduced by Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN). The main aim of NB-I…
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TinyML for Ultra-Low Power AI and Large Scale IoT Deployments: A Systematic Review Open
The rapid emergence of low-power embedded devices and modern machine learning (ML) algorithms has created a new Internet of Things (IoT) era where lightweight ML frameworks such as TinyML have created new opportunities for ML algorithms ru…
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Sigfox and LoRaWAN Datasets for Fingerprint Localization in Large Urban and Rural Areas Open
Because of the increasing relevance of the Internet of Things and location-based services, researchers are evaluating wireless positioning techniques, such as fingerprinting, on Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) communication. In order t…
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Synchronous LoRa Mesh Network to Monitor Processes in Underground Infrastructure Open
Collecting precise real-time information on urban drainage system performance is essential to identify, predict, and manage critical loading situations, such as urban flash floods and sewer overflows. Although emerging low-power wireless c…
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A Systematic Review on Cognitive Radio in Low Power Wide Area Network for Industrial IoT Applications Open
The Industrial Internet of things (IIoT) helps several applications that require power control and low cost to achieve long life. The progress of IIoT communications, mainly based on cognitive radio (CR), has been guided to the robust netw…
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Advances in machine learning and IoT for water quality monitoring: A comprehensive review Open
Water holds great significance as a vital resource in our everyday lives, highlighting the important to continuously monitor its quality to ensure its usability. The advent of the. The Internet of Things (IoT) has brought about a revolutio…
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City Scale Particulate Matter Monitoring Using LoRaWAN Based Air Quality IoT Devices Open
Air Quality (AQ) is a very topical issue for many cities and has a direct impact on citizen health. The AQ of a large UK city is being investigated using low-cost Particulate Matter (PM) sensors, and the results obtained by these sensors h…
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Energy Consumption Analysis of LPWAN Technologies and Lifetime Estimation for IoT Application Open
The spectrum of Internet of Things (IoT) applications is exponentially growing, driving the demand for better energy performance metrics. In conjunction, Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) have evolved as long-range connectivity enabler …
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Security Risk Analysis of LoRaWAN and Future Directions Open
LoRa (along with its upper layers definition—LoRaWAN) is one of the most promising Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies for implementing Internet of Things (IoT)-based applications. Although being a popular technology, several …
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Monitoring Soil and Ambient Parameters in the IoT Precision Agriculture Scenario: An Original Modeling Approach Dedicated to Low-Cost Soil Water Content Sensors Open
A low power wireless sensor network based on LoRaWAN protocol was designed with a focus on the IoT low-cost Precision Agriculture applications, such as greenhouse sensing and actuation. All subsystems used in this research are designed by …
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Low-Power Wide-Area Networks: Design Goals, Architecture, Suitability to Use Cases and Research Challenges Open
Previous survey articles on Low-Powered Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs) lack a systematic analysis of the design goals of LPWAN and the design decisions adopted by various commercially available and emerging LPWAN technologies, and no study ha…
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Cognitive-LPWAN: Towards Intelligent Wireless Services in Hybrid Low Power Wide Area Networks Open
The relentless development of the Internet of Things (IoT) communication\ntechnologies and the gradual maturity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have led\nto a powerful cognitive computing ability. Users can now access efficient and\nconven…
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LoRaWAN Mesh Networks: A Review and Classification of Multihop Communication Open
The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) led to the deployment of many applications that use wireless networks, like smart cities and smart agriculture. Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) meet many requirements of IoT, such as energy …