Leveraging LoRaWAN to Support IoBT in Urban Environments

Michaelis, James; Morelli, Alessandro; Raglin, Adrienne; James, Deryck D.; Suri, Niranjan

doi:10.1109/wf-iot.2019.8767294

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“…From our tests, the software performed as expected and could be a tool for asset tracking in search and rescue operations. Our findings show that though the Pycom units we used with PyMesh exhibited a shorter range than previous experiments conducted with LoRaWAN (see, e.g., [24], [25]), it should be noted that in our experiment all nodes were equally capable, whereas the LoRaWAN experiments had a dedicated, more capable gateway deployed. Still, coupling LoRa with PyMesh on the Pycom units effectively doubled the operating range, as we found, due to the multi-hop and routing capabilities of the mesh network.…”

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“…LoRa is a building block of LoRaWAN [10], which adds security and the means to organize a LoRa network with one or more gateways bridging LoRa to other networks, e.g., the Internet. The military application aspect of LoRaWAN has been investigated by Michaelis et al [24], who used the USA version of LoRaWAN in the 915 MHz band to track vehicles in an urban environment (downtown Montreal, Canada). Their findings show a usable range of LoRaWAN of up to 5 Km under the conditions tested.…”

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A LoRa Mesh Network Asset Tracking Prototype

Andersen

Blaalid

Engstad

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

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Long Range (LoRa) is a low powered wide area communications technology, which uses radio frequencies in the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band to transmit data over long distances. Due to these properties, i.e., the long range and little restrictions on deployment and use, LoRa is a good candidate for building an asset tracking application on, for example targeting search and rescue operations. This paper describes the development and testing of such a prototype, using commercial off-the-shelf Internet of Things (IoT) consumer devices and a proprietary mesh protocol.The prototype enables distributed position tracking utilizing the Global Positioning System (GPS), a gateway to the Internet, a server for data storage and analysis, as well as a Web application for visualizing position tracking data. The devices are small, and our tests have included both personnel on foot carrying the equipment, as well as having the devices on vehicles.

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A LoRa Mesh Network Asset Tracking Prototype

Andersen

Blaalid

Engstad

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

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“…Critical Infrastructure: LoRaWAN's wireless signal range and broad support of multiple devices could prove to be effective in streamlining the monitoring of critical infrastructure such as electricity, natural gas, water, and sewage. (Conceição, et al, 2020) (Michaelis, et al, 2019). One such example utilizes LoRaWAN for smart infrastructure to monitor physical access to city sewer systems to increase civic response (Chaudhari, et al, 2021).…”

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LoRaWAN & The Helium Blockchain: A Study on Military IoT Deployment

Reyneke

Mullins

Reith

2023

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Technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and the demand for a reliable, far-reaching Internet of Things (IoT) network has never been higher. Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) offers an energy-efficient, low-cost, long-range wireless communication protocol catered to IoT devices. A subset of LPWAN, Long Range Wireless Access Network (LoRaWAN), is being rapidly adopted due to its effortless integration into existing system architectures and real-world success. The Helium Network cryptocurrency blockchain’s financial incentives have been used to speed up the LoRaWAN adoption and deployment in urban and rural areas by financially incentivizing gateway owners to establish a redundant network based out of their homes and businesses. In addition to ease of deployment, the Helium Network allows for enhanced security by utilizing a public blockchain ledger to verify the identities of both sender and recipient to combat packet replay and man-in-the-middle attacks. This research argues for the effectiveness of LoRaWAN and Helium Network technology fusion based on real-world examples of a robust and dependable worldwide network. Further, this research advocates for adoption and modification of this technology by the Department of Defense (DoD), to enhance environmental sensing, establish real-time tactical networks, and critical infrastructure and logistics monitoring. If the DoD chooses to integrate these two technologies with its existing IoT infrastructure; it can reliably, securely, and anonymously use LoRaWAN nodes and routers as both a long-range and backup encrypted communication network capable of supporting end-to-end encryption up to AES-128 (DoD SECRET-classification standard). The DoD could capitalize on these successes to advance information dominance in both domestic and international environments. The demonstrated performance and low adoption cost of LoRaWAN and Helium Network technologies could greatly enhance the DoD’s mission of maintaining its lethality and dominance in information warfare.

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