Low power and long-range communications are essential features of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm that is becoming widespread across a spectrum of industrial applications. In this paper, we present performance evaluation of the most promising long-range communication technologies, namely LoRaWAN and NB-IoT. We present accurate in-field measurements using a monitoring application as a testbench for a fair comparison in terms of energy efficiency and lifetime. Experimental results highlight that NB-IoT payload length does not impact on transmission energy. Thus, applications that implement buffering and caching techniques are favored. On the other hand, LoRaWAN consumes 10x less energy to transmit a payload equivalent to that of NB-IoT, thereby allowing longer end-device lifetime.
Ballerini, M., Polonelli, T., Brunelli, D., Magno, M., Benini, L. (2019). Experimental Evaluation on NB-IoT and LoRaWAN for Industrial and IoT Applications [10.1109/INDIN41052.2019.8972066].
Experimental Evaluation on NB-IoT and LoRaWAN for Industrial and IoT Applications
Massimo Ballerini
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
;Tommaso Polonelli
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
;Davide BrunelliWriting – Original Draft Preparation
;Michele MagnoWriting – Original Draft Preparation
;Luca BeniniSupervision
2019
Abstract
Low power and long-range communications are essential features of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm that is becoming widespread across a spectrum of industrial applications. In this paper, we present performance evaluation of the most promising long-range communication technologies, namely LoRaWAN and NB-IoT. We present accurate in-field measurements using a monitoring application as a testbench for a fair comparison in terms of energy efficiency and lifetime. Experimental results highlight that NB-IoT payload length does not impact on transmission energy. Thus, applications that implement buffering and caching techniques are favored. On the other hand, LoRaWAN consumes 10x less energy to transmit a payload equivalent to that of NB-IoT, thereby allowing longer end-device lifetime.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
