Paper Info
Title
Enabling mMTC in Remote Areas: LoRaWAN and LEO Satellite Integration for Offshore Wind Farm Monitoring
Abstract
The offshore wind farms are gaining momentum due to their promise to offer sustainable energy with low pollution and greenhouse gas emission. However, despite all the immense technological progress of recent years, the operation in a harsh and hard-to-reach environment remains challenging. According to the reports, each offshore wind turbine requires five maintenance visits a year on average, and the cumulative repair costs constitute around 30% of the turbine’s life-cycle expenditure. Motivated by the advancement of massive machine-type connectivity (mMTC) and satellite technologies, in this study, we investigate the potential of these to enable remote monitoring of the offshore wind farms. Specifically, the two alternative architectures are considered. The indirect architecture relies on using a local mMTC gateway (GW) with a backbone over a reliable communication channel (e.g., satellite or wire-based). The direct approach implies the transmission of the data by sensors on the wind turbines directly to the mMTC GW on the low-Earth-orbit satellite. The details of the system design, the alternative implementation strategies, and relevant pros, cons, and tradeoffs are pin-pointed. Finally, we employ simulations using realistic deployment and traffic and advanced propagation and collision models to characterize these two approaches’ feasibility and packet delivery probability numerically when implemented over LoRaWAN mMTC technology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TII.2021.3112386
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
LoRaWAN,massive machine-type connectivity (mMTC),monitoring,remote area,renewable,satellites,wind turbines,wireless sensor network
Journal
18
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1551-3203
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muhammad Asad Ullah131.18
Konstantin Mikhaylov211.09
Hirley Alves372.93