Low power and long-range communications are essential features of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm that is becoming widespread across a spectrum of industrial applications. In this paper, we present performance evaluation of the most promising long-range communication technologies, namely LoRaWAN and NB-IoT. We present accurate in-field measurements using a monitoring application as a testbench for a fair comparison in terms of energy efficiency and lifetime. Experimental results highlight that NB-IoT payload length does not impact on transmission energy. Thus, applications that implement buffering and caching techniques are favored. On the other hand, LoRaWAN consumes 10× less energy to transmit a payload equivalent to that of NB-IoT, thereby allowing longer end-device lifetime.
Experimental evaluation on NB-IoT and LoRaWAN for industrial and IoT applications / Ballerini, M.; Polonelli, T.; Brunelli, D.; Magno, M.; Benini, L.. - ELETTRONICO. - 2019-:(2019), pp. 1729-1732. (Intervento presentato al convegno 17th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN 2019 tenutosi a FInlandia nel 2019) [10.1109/INDIN41052.2019.8972066].
Experimental evaluation on NB-IoT and LoRaWAN for industrial and IoT applications
Brunelli D.;
2019-01-01
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Low power and long-range communications are essential features of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm that is becoming widespread across a spectrum of industrial applications. In this paper, we present performance evaluation of the most promising long-range communication technologies, namely LoRaWAN and NB-IoT. We present accurate in-field measurements using a monitoring application as a testbench for a fair comparison in terms of energy efficiency and lifetime. Experimental results highlight that NB-IoT payload length does not impact on transmission energy. Thus, applications that implement buffering and caching techniques are favored. On the other hand, LoRaWAN consumes 10× less energy to transmit a payload equivalent to that of NB-IoT, thereby allowing longer end-device lifetime.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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