What is it about?

Long-range radio (LoRa) communication is a widespread communication protocol that offers long range transmission and low data rates with minimum power consumption. In the context of solid waste management, only a low amount of data needs to be sent to the remote server. With this advantage, we proposed architecture for designing and developing a customized sensor node and gateway based on LoRa technology for realizing the filling level of the bins with minimal energy consumption. We evaluated the energy consumption of the proposed architecture by simulating it on the Framework for LoRa (FLoRa) simulation by varying distinct fundamental parameters of LoRa communication. This paper also provides the distinct evaluation metrics of the the long-range data rate, time on-air (ToA), LoRa sensitivity, link budget, and battery life of sensor node. Finally, the paper concludes with a real-time experimental setup, where we can receive the sensor data on the cloud server with a customized sensor node and gateway.

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Why is it important?

Waste management is the primary public utility for every community to ensure the protection of public health and the environment. for designing and developing a customized sensor node and gateway based on LoRa technology for realizing the filling level of the bins with minimal energy consumption. We evaluated the energy consumption of the proposed architecture by simulating it on the Framework for LoRa (FLoRa) simulation by varying distinct fundamental parameters of LoRa communication. We provided the distinct evaluation metrics of the long-range data rate, time on-air (ToA), LoRa sensitivity, link budget, and battery life of sensor node. We concluded with a real-time experimental setup, where we received the sensor data on the cloud server with a customized sensor node and gateway.

Perspectives

Wireless communication protocol plays key role for reliable transmission between the sensor nodes and cloud server in IoT. LoRa is one of the prominent and emergent wireless communication that meet the requirements of IoT in terms of minimum power consumption and long-range transmission.

Vaseem Akram Shaik

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This page is a summary of: Performance Analysis of IoT and Long-Range Radio-Based Sensor Node and Gateway Architecture for Solid Waste Management, Sensors, April 2021, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/s21082774.
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