Title: Reducing the internet traffic in IoT-based monitoring and control system through a combination of WSN and LoRaWAN networks

Authors: S. Bhavatharangini; Sabitha Ramakrishnan

Addresses: Department of Instrumentation Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology Campus, Anna University, Chennai-600044, Tamil Nadu, India ' Department of Instrumentation Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology Campus, Anna University, Chennai-600044, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract: LoRa is a wireless communication technology with long transmission distance, low power consumption, low transmission speed, low complexity and low cost. Through the comparison and analysis of several wireless communication technologies, a temperature monitoring platform based on LoRa spread spectrum and wireless sensors is proposed. Thus a low-cost and battery-supplied wireless sensor network (WSN) for fine-grained, flexible and data centric temperature monitoring system is proposed. The proposed system uses localised LoRa-based communication among the nodes of a wireless sensor network and IoT-based monitoring and control through a single LoRaWAN gateway. Thus, the proposed system offers several advantages over a conventional IoT-based monitoring and control system, namely: 1) reduced internet traffic; 2) low-cost end devices with simple LoRa transceivers and a single coordinator per cluster with LoRaWAN gateway; 3) remote monitoring and control of end devices through the gateway.

Keywords: LoRa; LoRaWAN; wireless sensor network; WSN; internet of things; IoT; remote control; energy efficient protocol; internet traffic.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2022.121655

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2022 Vol.39 No.4, pp.211 - 222

Received: 01 Jan 2021
Accepted: 11 Jun 2021
Published online: 23 Mar 2022 *

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