Introduction
Everything can be networked, monitored, controlled, and evaluated, from the wastewater pumping station to construction site equipment and cows under the Lora gateway. For this to work, suitable transmission technology for machines is required. It must have a long-range and penetrate walls well to obtain data from the last corner under LoRaWAN.
Low power consumption is also significant, so you keep batteries the same in challenging places.
The major mobile phone providers are building the NB-lot or Narrowband IoT network for this purpose – where it makes economic sense for them, which involves transmission costs for each sensor or actuator under the Lora gateway.
Akenza
You have full authority over all of your assets because of akenza device management. It provides comprehensive solutions to administer your device network at scale and is intended to support you throughout the complete device lifecycle.
Thus, the LoRaWAN is optimally suited for regional or local machine networks. Here are a few examples:
Construction site networking
On the construction site, work is carried out in many places simultaneously, materials and tools disappear, and equipment is not found under the Lora gateway. Sometimes unexpected material problems occur due to temperature fluctuations, or the toilet house is complete under LoRaWAN. All this causes additional costs and dissatisfaction among the employees.
Monitor the sewage system without climbing into the sewer
Currently, monitoring the sewage system is associated with a high expenditure of time and money. At each measuring point, a construction site must be blocked off; two sewage experts must go down and determine the data under the Lora gateway.
Networked agriculture or Smart farming
Each farm can build its own LoRaWAN at a relatively low cost. Sensors can constantly monitor fields with plants and animals to create optimal conditions under the Lora gateway.
One example is the health of farm animals. It has been difficult for farmers to have a constant overview of the health status of animals under LoRaWAN.
Bright town – building a city network with LoRaWAN
In developing a city into a Smart town, the LoRaWAN offers an excellent complement to mobile communications. All applications not consuming large amounts of data can run over the city’s machine network under the Lora gateway.
In contrast to the use of the mobile phone network, the city itself determines the area coverage. Depending on their authorization, it can forward the collected data to the right people, apps, or offices under LoRaWAN.
Facts:
Open standards guarantee application-specific implementations.
Various wireless technologies are available to connect objects and applications in Smart solutions. These include established short-range solutions such as ZigBee, WiFi, BLE, mobile network technologies such as 2G to 4G, and soon 5G, and LPWAN technologies with extended ranges under the Lora gateway.
Low energy consumption and long ranges
Technologies with a similar application spectrum, such as 5G or NB IoT, consume up to five times as much energy as LoRaWAN technologies.
The use of LoRaWAN pays off, particularly in applications that do not require large amounts of data or real-time information under the Lora gateway. Depending on data transfer volume and frequency, the battery life lasts between five and 15 years.
The structure of a LoRaWAN network
A Lora architecture is designed in a star shape; end devices, such as nodes or sensor transponders, communicate measured values and information with gateways, which forward the individual data packets to a central server under the Lora gateway.
The collected data is available to IoT platforms and applications via various interfaces. LoRaWAN applications operate in globally and regionally different frequency ranges of the ISM band and the SRD band.
Indoor and outdoor suitability support a faster ROI
The energy efficiency of products using the LoRaWAN protocol is a unique selling point compared to other wireless IoT technologies under the Lora gateway. With LoRaWAN, use cases can be realized in which battery replacement would incur high costs.
Complete flexibility for organizational and business models
A Wireless IoT solution’s purchase and operating costs are critical decision criteria for implementation. Public network operators usually charge running costs per connected device and month under LoRaWAN.
Using LoRaWAN, cities, companies, or system integrators can build a dedicated private network. It offers complete freedom for business models and gives the user independence in terms of coverage under the Lora gateway. Recurring costs are avoided.
Smart Cities
With LoRaWAN-based applications, public and private companies can generate data in Smart cities that contribute to the realization of sustainable and comfortable city life.
Data collection via LoRaWAN includes, for example, the fill levels of waste containers, the control of street lighting, automatic reading of energy consumption, various environmental data such as CO2 or noise pollution, or sensors that report the occupancy of parking spaces under the Lora gateway.
Shared offices
In Smart buildings such as shared offices, the acquisition of usage data in offices, conference rooms, and workstations enable the optimization of expensive office space.
Desks or rooms can be booked in real-time and made available online again in no-show situations.
If a company knows how many workstations are needed for shared use, this can reduce the amount of rented office space under LoRaWAN. On the other hand, room parameters such as humidity and temperature can be continuously controlled and flexibly adjusted by the user under the Lora gateway.
