Performance of LoRaWAN for Handling Telemetry and Alarm Messages in Industrial Applications

Autor(es)

dos Santos Filho, Francisco Helder C. ^{[1, 2]} ; Dester, Plinio S. ^[1] ; Stancanelli, Elvis M. G. ^[2] ; Cardieri, Paulo ^[1] ; Nardelli, Pedro H. J. ^[3] ; Carrillo, Dick ^[3] ; Alves, Hirley ^[4]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Univ Estadual Campinas, Sch Elect & Comp Engn, BR-13083970 Campinas - Brazil

^[2] Univ Fed Ceara, BR-63902580 Quixada - Brazil

^[3] Lappeenranta Univ Technol, Dept Elect Engn, POB 20, FI-53851 Lappeenranta - Finland

^[4] Univ Oulu, Ctr Wireless Commun, POB 4500, Oulu 90014 - Finland

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: SENSORS; v. 20, n. 11 JUN 2020.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

This paper analyzes the feasibility of the coexistence of telemetry and alarm messages employing Long-Range Wide-Area Network (LoRaWAN) technology in industrial environments. The regular telemetry messages come from periodic measurements from the majority of sensors while the alarm messages come from sensors whose transmissions are triggered by rarer (random) events that require highly reliable communication. To reach such a strict requirement, we propose here strategies of allocation of spreading factor, by treating alarm and regular (telemetry) messages differently. The potential of such allocation strategies has also been investigated under retransmission and diversity of gateways. Both indoor industrial plant and open-field scenarios are investigated. We compare the proposed solution with a benchmark scenario-where no alarm is considered-by using system level simulation. Our results show that it is possible to achieve high reliability with reasonably low delay for the alarm messages without significantly affecting the performance of the regular links. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 17/21347-0 - Interferência e atraso em redes de comunicação com tráfego espaço-temporal
• Beneficiário: Plínio Santini Dester
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado Direto