lpwan - overview & use cases
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LPWAN Overview & use cases
Hardware Club — Paris — 2015.10.28
LPWhat ?
• Low Power Wide Area Network
• Low Power: Battery-powered devices
• Wide Area: Can reach a base station kms away
Need for a new technology
• Dedicated to the Internet of Things
• Independent devices
• Frugal devices
Private networks
• ✗ Ready to use
• ✗ SLA
• ✗ Mobility
• ✓ 100% managed by your teams
Operated networks
• ✓ Ready to use
• ✓ SLA
• ✓ Mobility wherever your contract is valid
• ✗ 100% managed by your teams
Comparison
0
3,5
7
10,5
14
0 4 8 12 16
Zigbee
Range
Bandwidth
WiFi4G
3G
2G Sat
LPWANBLERFID NFC
Low bandwidth• 100s of bits/second
• ✗ Multimedia
• ✗ Full text
• ✓ Sensors values
• ✓ GPS location
• ✓ Machine readable data
Use cases
Metering
• Tele-measuring of water/gas consumption
• No need for concentrators
• Fire hydrant
• Monitor leaks
• Be sure it’s functional when needed
Utilities
• Track the location of any good or equipment
• Post theft devices
Logistics
• Know when some equipment is about to fail
• Schedule maintenance works efficiently
Predictive maintenance
Agriculture
• Monitor environment values all over an exploitation : light, soil moisture, ..
• Animal health & location tracking
Ifttt-like
• Press a button, send an empty frame & trigger any pre determined action
• « Mom I’m home ! »
• « Get me a taxi»
• ~Amazon dash
« Silver economy »
• Health monitoring, fall alerts, ..
• Without the locked-in effect of gateway-based solutions
• Track the community-payed services effectiveness
• Did the carer really come every day for 2 hours ?
IoT vs Gadgets
Sexy Stuff
BORING (BUT USEFUL)
IOT
Solutions
SIGFOX• Leader on the LPWAN Market
• Only network deployed in production in 10+ countries
• One network, no roaming
• Open hardware approach. Standard components from established partners (TI, Atmel, SiLabs, ..)
• Max 14€/year
Other
• Private networks solutions
• Crowdsourced initiatives
• Not-yet finalized protocols
Thank you ☺
• Want a real demo: let’s talk !
• Get in touch :
• twitter: @nlesconnec