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Overview Internet of Things

LoRaWAN™

ChingYao Huang 黃經堯 , Ph.D.

Wireless Information and Technology Laboratory

無線資訊及技術發展實驗室
National Chiao Tung University

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KflfJwXncy8
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LoRaWAN™

is designed from the bottom up to

optimize LPWANs for battery lifetime,
capacity, range, and cost.

LPWAN: Low–Power, Wide-Area Networks

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Long Range: LoRa (Belgium Development)

 A single gateway or base station can cover entire cities or

hundreds of square kilometers.
 LoRaWAN™ have a link budget greater than any other
standardized communication technology.
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LoRa Network Architecture

Long range star architecture makes the most sense for preserving
battery lifetime when long-range connectivity can be achieved.
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LoRa Network Architecture

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LoRa Protocol Layer

ISM: Industrial Scientific Medical Band 1-6

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LoRa System

• SPI: Serial Peripheral Interface

• HAL: The Hypertext Application Language/HAL is a simple way of linking in
REST APIs with either JSON or XML
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IoT Technologies

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LoRa Feature - Battery Lifetime
 The nodes in a LoRaWAN™ network are
asynchronous and communicate when they have
data ready to send whether event-driven or
scheduled.
– This type of protocol is typically referred to as the Aloha
method.
 In a mesh network or with a synchronous
network, such as cellular, the nodes frequently
have to ‘wake up’ to synchronize with the network
and check for messages.

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LoRa Device Classes

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Class A Tx/Rx

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LoRa RF

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LoRa Adaptive Data Rates

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Technology Comparison – view from NB-IoT

View from : Huawei, The Way to The Connected Planet,

2015
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Technology Comparison – view from LoRa

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IoT connectivity market structure

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LPWA vs 3GPP IoT

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Information rate and power consumption
performance of wide area connectivity
protocols

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Current Example: Applications

UNB: ultra narrow band

RPMA: Random Phase Multiple Access

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