Open AccessEnergy self-sufficient sensor node for long range wireless networks
Author(s) -
Philipp Bolte,
Ulf Witkowski
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/431/1/012050
Subject(s) - wireless sensor network , computer network , computer science , key distribution in wireless sensor networks , default gateway , wireless , node (physics) , context (archaeology) , sensor node , wireless network , energy harvesting , wi fi array , energy (signal processing) , telecommunications , engineering , structural engineering , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , biology
Wireless networks can have different architectures depending on the application context. In this paper, we concentrate on a wireless network that supports a gateway to a server being accessible from the internet. Many typical related applications can be found in IoT and Industry 4.0. Focus of this paper is on the design of a sensor node that is energy self-sufficient and supports the LoRa communication standard. By using LoRa long range wireless communication of up to several kilometres range becomes possible. Therefore, large areas can be covered by using multiple sensor nodes. Special attention had been on low-power design aspects to run the node with rechargeable battery and small photovoltaic cell only. Example application is ambient monitoring and support of an aquaponics project.