The Internet of Things LoRaWAN Technologies in Academia: A Case Study

Universities are a propitious place to leverage knowledge and bring life to new technologies to enhance their effectiveness when used in the industry. Universities are a special case of non-profit organizations that offer improvements in teaching, research, and extension activities for their academic community. It is a fact that many companies now partner with academia to evaluate new products, perform internal personnel training, and improve the quality of their production for end markets. In this book chapter, we discuss how to connect cloud services to thousands of IoT end devices with low-range technologies. This chapter consists of an explanation about the implementation of a complete and functional low-power long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) using the current local wireless infrastructures. Our objective is to report the core aspects to be considered for learning about low-power long-range WAN IoT technologies. These aspects include the analysis of the coverage area, communication restrictions, network data-link and bandwidth, and many others. We also present a set of experiments carried out at a Brazilian university that currently uses novel LoRaWAN technologies and related devices as teaching tools. We enumerate many real possibilities of application of IoT sensing for smart cities with interesting experimental evaluations.

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