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While benefits of IoT are clearly stated the deployment of such devices in a large scale is still held back by technical challenges such as short communication distances. Recent long-range radio technologies such as Semtech’s LoRa are promising to deploy Low Power WAN at a very low-cost for a large variety of applications. The paper describes our proposed low-cost and open IoT gateway & devices for both robust and simple deployment. Quick appropriation & customization by third parties for test-bed deployment is of utmost importance and the whole proposed architecture addresses this issue from the very beginning of the design process.
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This work is support by the WAZIUP project with funding from the EU’s H2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 687607.
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Pham, C. (2017). Building Low-Cost Gateways and Devices for Open LoRa IoT Test-Beds. In: Guo, S., Wei, G., Xiang, Y., Lin, X., Lorenz, P. (eds) Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities. TridentCom 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 177. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49580-4_7
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