Evaluation of LoRa LPWAN Technology for Indoor Remote Health and Wellbeing Monitoring

International Journal of Wireless Information Networks

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 153-165

  Petäjäjärvi, Juha ^a   Mikhaylov, Konstantin ^a   Yasmin, Rumana ^b   Hämäläinen, Matti ^a   Iinatti, Jari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chirp spread spectrum; Coverage; IoT; Power consumption; Range; RSSI; Spreading factor

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; NETWORK LAYERS; RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; SENSOR NODES; TRANSCEIVERS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CHIRP SPREAD SPECTRUM; COVERAGE; RANGE; RSSI; SPREADING FACTOR;

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 85011865936     PISSN: 10689605     EISSN: 15728129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10776-017-0341-8     Document Type: Article

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