Performance Analysis of a Smart Street Lighting Application Using LoRa Wan

Abstract

Internet of things has allowed the development of a set of services and applications such as Smart Cities and Smart Homes. This paper proposes a realistic implementation of a large-scale smart Street Lighting Control System which allows solar lampposts to dynamically manage the street lighting. The application is simulated for the district of HLM route de Mbour in Thies, Senegal. It is a fully remote-controlled city of lampposts based on Long Range (LoRa) technology. Lamps are equipped with sensors that sense and send information to a network server for management. Simulation results show a high packet loss rate when only one gateway is deployed due to collisions. We then increase the number of gateways and study the performances of the network. Results show that multiple gateways deployment in large scale LoRa network achieves better packet delivery ratio and lower energy consumption.