Enabling a Flexible and Sustainable Smart Campus Networking Backbone Using LoRaWAN: Poster Abstract

Abstract

Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology is key for smart-campus applications, and the needed IoT infrastructure must be flexible, fault-tolerant, and power-saving to offer a continuous service for such applications. Among Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) technologies, LoRaWAN is a promising candidate to meet the requirements. In this paper, we present our on-going research work for a LoRaWAN smart-campus networking architecture. We aim to increase fault tolerance by backing up data between gateways under the LoRaWAN network. At the same time, because now there are multiple gateways, IoT end devices may select appropriate transmission power and spreading factor, to achieve both higher energy efficiency and deployment flexibility.