Evaluation of LoRa LPWAN technology for remote health and wellbeing monitoring

International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, ISMICT

Volumn 2016-June, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Petajajarvi, Juha ^a   Mikhaylov, Konstantin ^a   Hamalainen, Matti ^a   Iinatti, Jari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

chirp spread spectrum; coverage; health; IoT; LPWAN; path loss; range; RSSI; welness

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; HEALTH; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; SENSOR NODES;

CHIRP SPREAD SPECTRUM; COVERAGE; LPWAN; PATH LOSS; RANGE; RSSI; WELNESS;

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 84978436707     PISSN: 2326828X     EISSN: 23268301     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISMICT.2016.7498898     Document Type: Conference Paper

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