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A Smart Cities LoRaWAN Network Based on Autonomous Base Stations (BS) for Some Countries with Limited Internet Access

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  • Pape Abdoulaye Barro

    (Department of Information and Communications Technology, Institute of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Porto-Novo 3730-301, Benin)

  • Marco Zennaro

    (T/ICT4D Laboratory of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 34151 Trieste, Italy)

  • Jules Degila

    (Department of Information and Communications Technology, Institute of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Porto-Novo 3730-301, Benin)

  • Ermanno Pietrosemoli

    (T/ICT4D Laboratory of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 34151 Trieste, Italy)

Abstract

An increasing number of implementations of IoT for development use the LoRaWAN protocol as many of them leverage the free network and application servers provided by The Things Networks (TTN) to fulfill their needs. Unfortunately, in some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, Internet access cannot be taken for granted, therefore, TTN might not be available. Moreover, low-cost and low-power consumption options devices are the most sustainable ones. In this paper, we propose a LoRaWAN network with autonomous base stations that can work without Internet connectivity for essential services, while being able to provide additional features whenever Internet access becomes available, even in an intermittent fashion. Security and privacy are preserved, with support for mobile nodes.

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  • Pape Abdoulaye Barro & Marco Zennaro & Jules Degila & Ermanno Pietrosemoli, 2019. "A Smart Cities LoRaWAN Network Based on Autonomous Base Stations (BS) for Some Countries with Limited Internet Access," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 11(4), pages 1-12, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:11:y:2019:i:4:p:93-:d:220809
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