Techno-Economic Analysis of LoRa WAN Deployment for Typical Massive IoT Applications in Urban and Suburban Areas

Authors

  • Muhammad Imam Nashiruddin
  • Amriane Hidayati

Abstract

LoRa WAN is a connectivity option candidate for typical massive IoT applications like a smart city, metering, smart manufacturing, environmental monitoring, and so forth. LoRa WAN is an unlicensed Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks that can potentially address the challenge of massive IoT deployment. It is designed to optimize battery lifetime, capacity, range, and cost. LoRa has an enormous advantage concerning cost when compared to 3GPP technologies because the given spectrum for LoRa is free. Although LoRa is a technology adopted from IoT, LoRa also has limitations related to massive deployment. This paper aims to provide techno-economic analysis of LoRa WAN for typical large-scale IoT application and what factors that give impact to the success of the implementation. The urban and suburban areas were chosen to see the differences between those two scenarios.

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Published

2020-04-09

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