Feasibility of Alarm Events upon Smart Metering in LoRa Networks

Filho, Francisco Helder C. dos S.; Dester, Plínio S.; Stancanelli, Elvis M. G.; Cardieri, Paulo

doi:10.1109/iswcs.2019.8877346

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“…Already in Figure 4 the average delay is presented (y-axis plotted in log scale), where we had the worst case for SF reservation getting closer to 80 ms, being a very low delay compared to other cases, but that greatly impaired the performance of regulars. For the SF basic and SF shift cases, the average delay was around 100 ms, keeping the reliability of the regulars above 98%, and it is worth mentioning that the strategy of SF shift was only feasible for a small number of alarms; a large number of alarms led to a long time-on-air, increasing the probability of collisions as presented in [20].…”

Section: Numerical Results and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Currently, there is a growing interest on LPWAN technology like LoRa and IEEE 802.11ah [15][16][17], in which some focus is given on the use of LoRaWAN in Industry 4.0 applications and other studies focus on alarm events triggered by protection systems [18][19][20]. For instance, in [15], the authors investigate LoRa technology for the implementation of industrial wireless networks suitable for sensors and actuators in an industrial setting and discuss the viability of using LoRaWAN technology as compared to traditional industrial wireless systems.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The authors of [19] carried out an overview and study of the industrial alarm systems, contributing to the major causes of alarm overload in many industrial alarm systems, which play critically important roles for the safe and efficient operation of modern industrial plants. An investigation of the feasibility of alarms for a smart metering scenario is done in [20], employing simulation and mathematical modeling.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Performance of LoRaWAN for Handling Telemetry and Alarm Messages in Industrial Applications

Filho

Dester

Stancanelli

et al. 2020

Sensors

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This paper analyzes the feasibility of the coexistence of telemetry and alarm messages employing Long-Range Wide-Area Network (LoRaWAN) technology in industrial environments. The regular telemetry messages come from periodic measurements from the majority of sensors while the alarm messages come from sensors whose transmissions are triggered by rarer (random) events that require highly reliable communication. To reach such a strict requirement, we propose here strategies of allocation of spreading factor, by treating alarm and regular (telemetry) messages differently. The potential of such allocation strategies has also been investigated under retransmission and diversity of gateways. Both indoor industrial plant and open-field scenarios are investigated. We compare the proposed solution with a benchmark scenario—where no alarm is considered—by using system level simulation. Our results show that it is possible to achieve high reliability with reasonably low delay for the alarm messages without significantly affecting the performance of the regular links.

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Section: Numerical Results and Discussionmentioning

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Performance of LoRaWAN for Handling Telemetry and Alarm Messages in Industrial Applications

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Dester

Stancanelli

et al. 2020

Sensors

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“…Helder et al 55 have focused on wireless communication of alarm messages in a smart metering system. Besides, Purnama and Nashiruddin 56 have proposed a LoRaWAN technology‐based IoT network for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) services.…”

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The role of low‐power wide‐area network technologies in Internet of Things: A systematic and comprehensive review

Mousavi

Khademzadeh

Rahmani

2021

Int J Communication

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Summary With the quick progress of wireless technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been recognized as the main part of daily people's lives that makes their life more convenient by utilizing a diverse range of smart devices. Over the last decade, various useful and forthcoming application fields have been developed by taking advantage of the IoT concept. In this regard, LPWAN technologies such as LoRa, Sigfox, and NB‐IoT play an important role in advancing. These technologies are suitable wireless communication protocols for battery‐powered IoT objects that enable long‐distance communication in low‐power devices at a low operation cost. Some review papers have investigated the LPWAN technology in the IoT from different perspectives. However, the lack of detailed and systematic study outlining the role of these technologies in different IoT applications is very clear. Consequently, this gap inspired us to write the current study. The current works are classified into three main classes, including smart city, home automation, and smart healthcare. Besides, the involved models in the smart city group are categorized into five subgroups, including smart monitoring, smart metering, air pollution, smart agriculture, and smart parking. The selected works are reviewed, and their main features, including main idea, coverage range, sensor types, processing board, frequency band, communication protocols, power consumption analysis, and achievement, are specified. Generally, our main aim is to describe the challenging problems of applying LPWAN to various IoT applications, specify the efficient models, and recommend some hints for upcoming studies.

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“…LoRa has found applications in smart metering devices that require low data rates and long-range communication [38]. [39] successfully use LoRa technology for transmission of data from smart meters to utility servers. In Slabicki et al, (2018), OMNeT++ was used for LoRa simulation to study the adaptive configuration of LoRa when deployed in handling dense internet of things (IoT).…”

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Communication Network Simulation for Smart Metering Applications: A Review

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Olayanju²,

Ponnle³

et al. 2021

Journal of Innovative Science and Engineering (JISE)

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Many countries are witnessing the deployment of millions of smart meters, as they strive to upgrade their traditional grid to the smart grid already prominent in the developed parts of the world. Communication networks that can offer high-speed communication will be required for transmission of the copious amount of data resulting from the numerous smart meters and other intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) in the distribution network substation. Therefore, there is a need to critically assess the available communication infrastructure for eventual upgrade and deployment. In this paper, a survey of the communication network and networks simulation software used for this purpose was carried out, with specific emphasis on smart metering applications. Some critical requirements identified are security, quality of service (QoS) and optimal cost for system operation. Also discussed are methods employed in the works of literature to handle the critical issues raised. For data transmission between the meters and data concentrators; power line communication (PLC) was mostly cost-effective and hence, mostly deployed. In the wireless category, ZigBee (802.15.4), and WiMAX (802.16) among others are suitable and have been successfully deployed. OPNET, NS-3, NS-2, and OMNET++ have been successfully employed for communication network simulations in smart metering applications.

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Feasibility of Alarm Events upon Smart Metering in LoRa Networks

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Performance of LoRaWAN for Handling Telemetry and Alarm Messages in Industrial Applications

Performance of LoRaWAN for Handling Telemetry and Alarm Messages in Industrial Applications

The role of low‐power wide‐area network technologies in Internet of Things: A systematic and comprehensive review

Communication Network Simulation for Smart Metering Applications: A Review

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