Paper Info
Title
Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) at Sea: Performance Analysis of Offshore Data Transmission by Means of LoRaWAN Connectivity for Marine Monitoring Applications.
Abstract
In this paper the authors discuss the realization of a Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) network infrastructure to be employed for monitoring activities within the marine environment. In particular, transmission ranges as well as the assessment of parameters like Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) are analyzed in the specific context of an aquaculture industrial plant, setting up a transmission channel from an offshore monitoring structure provided with a LoRaWAN transmitter, to an ashore receiving device composed of two LoRaWAN Gateways. A theoretical analysis about the feasibility of the transmission is provided. The performances of the system are then measured with different network parameters (in particular the Spreading Factor-SF) as well as with two different heights for the transmitting antenna. Test results prove that efficient data transmission can be achieved at a distance of 8.33 km even using worst case network settings: this suggests the effectiveness of the system even in harsher environmental conditions, thus entailing a lower quality of the transmission channel, or for larger transmission ranges.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19143239
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
LPWAN,LoRaWAN,IoT,marine monitoring,offshore data transmission
Transmitter,Transmission (mechanics),Data transmission,Signal-to-noise ratio,Electronic engineering,Long range wide area network,Signal strength,Engineering,LPWAN,Submarine pipeline
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
19
14
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lorenzo Parri135.10
Stefano Parrino284.25
Giacomo Peruzzi3123.31
Alessandro Pozzebon44216.63