NB-IoT and LoRA connectivity analysis for M2M/IoT smart grids applications

Persia, Samuela; Carciofi, Claudia; Faccioli, Manuel

doi:10.23919/aeit.2017.8240558

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“…• With respect to the second task, comparing LoRa performance, thanks to the popularity of this technology, all the long-range, low-power alternatives have been analyzed and their differences outlined. Among them, we highlight license-free alternatives such as Sigfox [17] or Weightless [18], as well as licensed options such as NB-IoT [19]. • Finally, regarding LoRa performance prediction, two works stand out for their rigorousness: The work in [13] thoroughly evaluated the potential throughput and coverage range of an IoT-based smart city deployment under different propagation conditions, via simulation.…”

Section: Research On Lora-based Iot Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance optimization of LoRa nodes for the future smart city/industry

Sandoval

García-Sánchez

2019

J Wireless Com Network

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The application of long-range communication technologies such as LoRa to certain environments like smart cities/industries is a natural step forward towards the future IoT. However, the strict limitations imposed in some countries on the duty cycle of ISM bands can jeopardize this technological progress. To overcome this and, at the same time, improve IoT nodes' transmission and power efficiency, a novel mathematical model has been derived. Its numerical analysis leads to a closed-form formula that characterizes node performance in terms of its transmission policy. The maximization of this formula-required to increase node performance-is then posed as an optimization problem whose solution yields smart transmission policies that maximize throughput while limiting energy consumption. The results achieved under this approach are compared to those obtained using the ADR algorithm (the most extended mechanism for choosing transmission parameters in LoRaWAN networks) and to random/conservative policies to further highlight the benefits of the proposal. Results reveal that the proposed method outperforms ADR by 33.20%, the conservative policy by 91.81%, and the random policy by 238.8%.

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Section: Research On Lora-based Iot Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance optimization of LoRa nodes for the future smart city/industry

Sandoval

García-Sánchez

2019

J Wireless Com Network

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“…The use of Narrowband-IoT has widely been applied on the smart metering or smart grid application [7][8] [9][10] [11]. Other Narrowband-IoT-based applications include smart parking [12] [13], smart cities [14] [21].…”

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A Performance Analysis of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) in Indonesia

Bima

Suryani

Wardana

2020

KINETIK

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Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a concept connecting any devices onto the internet. The IoT devices are able to not only use a service or server to be control at distance but also to do computation. IoT has been applied in many fields such as smart city, industries and logistics. The sending of IoT data can use the existing GSM networks such as GPRS. However, GPRS is not dedicated particularly for the transmission of IoT data in consideration to its weaknesses in terms of coverage and power efficiency. To increase the performance of the transmission of IoT data, Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT), one alternative to replace GPRS, is offered for its excellences in coverage and power. This paper aims to compare the GPRS and NB-IoT technology for the transmission of IoT data, specifically in Bandung region, Indonesia. Considering that NB-IoT is a new technology, a preliminary feasibility study of this technology is needed, especially in Indonesia. This paper is the first paper to discuss the performance analysis of NB-IoT technology in Indonesia in terms of network performances. This research results can be useful for other further researches in NB-IoT area. The results obtained showed that the packet loss from clients for the GPRS network was at 68%, while the one for NB-IoT was at 44%. Moreover, NB-IoT technology was found excellent in terms of battery saving compared to GPRS for the transmission of IoT data. This then showed that NB-IoT was found more suitable for transmitting the IoT data compared to GPRS.

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“…Most grid utilities still rely on traditional cellular networks to completely control and monitor energy utilization in decentralized grid centers. Nonetheless, each mini-grid center usually has a large number of consumer meters, making it not a cost-effective solution to rely entirely on cellular networks for electricity usage monitoring [6]. The mini-grid company might have to negotiate data plan agreements with cellular network providers to accommodate all the enormous data traffic, depending on the number of customers each mini-grid center serves [7].…”

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Performance Evaluation LoRa-GPRS Integrated Electricity usage Monitoring System for Decentralized Mini-Grids

Omary¹,

Sam²

2020

IJACSA

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The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) technologies such as Long-Range (LoRa), combined with traditional cellular communications technologies such as General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offers decentralized mini-grid companies the opportunity to have cost-effective monitoring systems for the mini-grid resources. Nevertheless, most of the existing decentralized mini-grid companies still rely on traditional cellular networks to fully monitor electricity consumption information, which is not a feasible solution especially for the resource-constrained mini-grid systems. This paper presents the performance evaluation of the proposed LoRa-GPRS integrated power consumption monitoring system for decentralized minigrid centers. Each mini-grid center consists of a network of custom designed smart meters equipped with LoRa modules for local data collection, while the GPRS gateway is used to transmit collected data from the local monitoring centre to the cloud server. Performance testing was conducted by using five electrical appliances whose power consumption data form the cloud server was compared to the same data collected by using a reference digital meter. The correlation between the two data sets was used as a key performance metric of the proposed system. The performance results show that the proposed system has a good accuracy hence providing a cost-effective framework for monitoring and managing of power resources in decentralized mini-grid centers.

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NB-IoT and LoRA connectivity analysis for M2M/IoT smart grids applications

Cited by 31 publications

References 7 publications

Performance optimization of LoRa nodes for the future smart city/industry

Performance optimization of LoRa nodes for the future smart city/industry

A Performance Analysis of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) in Indonesia

Performance Evaluation LoRa-GPRS Integrated Electricity usage Monitoring System for Decentralized Mini-Grids

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