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Evaluation of LP-WAN Technologies for Fire Forest Detection Systems

Authors:
Daniel Adorno
Salviano Soares
José Lima
Antonio Valente

Keywords: Keywords–IoT; LoRaWAN; Sigfox; Fire detection

Abstract:
Low Power Wide Area Networks (LP-WAN)are receiving a lot of attention because of their ability to communicate using radio frequency in long distances,with low-power consumption and low-cost devices. In this paper, we provide a comparison between the two LP-WAN platforms that are leading the market, Sigfox and LoRaWAN, based on the literature. Both platforms are analysed considering the context of the forest fire detection and verification systems. Many aspects are being considered as battery lifetime, coverage range, business model and costs, to identify which of them is more adequate to be used in this kind of system. The comparison shows that both platforms are very similar in most of the aspects, but LoRaWAN has an advantage to be more flexible than Sigfox on the deployment and management of the network infrastructure. LoRaWAN permits customers implement and manage your own infrastructure network, which is essential in systems to monitor vast forest areas.

Pages: 49 to 53

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019

Publication date: February 24, 2019

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-836X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-691-0

Location: Athens, Greece

Dates: from February 24, 2019 to February 28, 2019