Low-Power Agriculture IoT System with LoRa: Open Field Storage Observation

Esma Kökten; Bahadır Can Çalışkan; Saeid Karamzadeh; Ece Gelal Soyak

doi:10.2478/ecce-2020-0013

Low-Power Agriculture IoT System with LoRa: Open Field Storage Observation

Authors

Esma Kökten Bahcesehir University
Bahadır Can Çalışkan Bahcesehir University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8414-265X
Saeid Karamzadeh Associate Professor, Bahcesehir University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0669-0746
Ece Gelal Soyak Assistant Professor, Bahcesehir University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2410-6267

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/ecce-2020-0013

Keywords:

Agriculture, Battery lifetime, Food storage, IoT, LoRa, Low-power application

Abstract

The last decade has seen multiple research work on the use of LoRaWAN technology in smart agriculture. In open field storage, monitoring is crucial for increasing the logistics efficiency and improving crop quality. As battery maintenance is expensive in such areas, LoRa is a suitable technology that allows for low-power communications. Within the framework of the research, a prototype has been built for tracking goods in open field storage. The battery lifetime has been analysed through calculations and measurements using LoRa communications. Our findings indicate that although sleeping current has the smallest percentage, it has the greatest effect on increasing the battery life, for longer battery life LoRa node must have a low self-discharge battery, and finally, sensors are the main battery depleting factor on the LoRa node.

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