LPWAN-Based Vehicular Monitoring Platform with a Generic IP Network Interface

Abstract

Remote vehicle monitoring is a field that has recently attracted the attention of both academia and industry. With the dawn of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, the possibilities for performing this task have multiplied, due to the emergence of low-cost and multi-purpose monitoring devices and the evolution of wireless transmission technologies. Low Power-Wide Area Network (LPWAN) encompasses a set of IoT communication technologies that are gaining momentum, due to their highly valued features regarding transmission distance and end-device energy consumption. For that reason, in this work we present a vehicular monitoring platform enabled by LPWAN-based technology, namely Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN). Concretely, we explore the end-to-end architecture considering vehicle data retrieving by using an On-Board Diagnostics II (OBD-II) interface, their compression with a novel IETF compression scheme in order to transmit them over the constrained LoRaWAN link, and information visualization through a data server hosted in the cloud, by means of a web-based dashboard. A key advance of the proposal is the design and development of a UNIX-based network interface for LPWAN communications. The whole system has been tested in a university campus environment, showing its capabilities to remotely track vehicle status in real-time. The conducted performance evaluation also shows high levels of reliability in the transmission link, with packet delivery ratios over 95%. The platform boosts the process of monitoring vehicles, enabling a variety of services such as mechanical failure prediction and detection, fleet management, and traffic monitoring, and is extensible to light vehicles with severe power constraints.

On the Use of LoRaWAN for the Monitoring and Control of Distributed Energy Resources in a Smart Campus

“…Differently from other LPWANs, LoRaWAN is an open standard, supported by an alliance in charge of drafting standards, with many manufacturers offering development solutions. Not surprisingly, very different application scenarios have been addressed in the market and in the literature, including precision agriculture [47,48], electric vehicles management [49,50], industry [51,52], buildings [53,54], and finally, smart campus [55,56].…”

ZigBee Radio Frequency (RF) Performance on Raspberry Pi 3 for Internet of Things (IoT) based Blood Pressure Sensors Monitoring

“…ECG has more complex output than Blood Pressure, ECG placement is also in patients 'chest and sensor placement which is at several points on patients' chest, while blood pressure only takes on the base of the wrist or wrist tip. Gaël Loubet, Alexandru Takacs, Ethan Gardner, Andrea De Luca, Florin Udrea and Daniela Dragomirescu [16], using LoRa as a Wireless Sensor Network device to monitor patient health, LoRAWAN is Vehicular-based communication [17]. This LoR works on the 868 MHz ISM frequency radio.…”

SURROGATES: Virtual OBUs to Foster 5G Vehicular Services

“…As compared with other solutions for vehicle data gathering, such as those based on VANET clustering and the use of proxies for V2I communications [5][6][7], SURROGATES focuses on downstream data requests and the reduction of their impact by vOBU caching, and moves data aggregation and further pre-processing capabilities to the MEC layer. For continuous monitoring of vehicles, uplink messages are sent using multiple communication technologies [25], following the recent trend of hybridizing data links, and integrating new-generation 5G and IoT technologies such as Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) in the vehicular domain [26].…”