An Alternative Data Gathering of the Air Pollutants In the Urban Environment using LoRa and LoRaWAN

In metropolises, air pollution is constantly increasing due to multiple factors, including high vehicles mobility and manufactures emissions. Nowadays, the urban environment management and control are among the most important issues of network technologies. Compared to the old environmental monitoring methods, the new network technologies provide several advantages such as flexibility, low latency, and real time control. Therefore, to better control the environment, we present an Alternative Data Gathering strategy for the collection of air pollutants data. Our strategy is based on applying LoRa and LoRaWAN protocols as well as on using NS3 simulator. The experiments showed that our strategy reveals better results in term of the Packet Delivery Ratio.