Selecting IoT Connectivity Protocols for Rural Development Applications

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jmm1550-4646.171323

Keywords:

IoT for Smart Farming, connectivity protocols, energy efficiency, SigFox, 2-D Aloha protocol, RFTDMA

Abstract

Data sensing and collection over vast coverage areas form an integral part of IoT applications such as Smart Farming. Selection of adequate IoT connectivity technologies is an important step in the design process. Overall energy efficiency, availability of low-cost and long-life sensor nodes and achievability of long coverage range of the fixed infrastructure are the main criteria of selection. After a brief description of the scenario of connectivity technologies, this article demonstrates the usefulness of a Low Power Wide Area Networking technology named SigFox for the applications mentioned above. Performance figures in terms of coverage range and protocol throughput (manageable IoT node density) justify this claim.

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Author Biography

Vinod Kumar, Director (Retd) in Wireless Research, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, France

Vinod Kumar has 35+ years of R&D experience in mobile communications. During his 27 year tenure in Alcatel-Lucent he initiated and contributed to research projects in 2G-5G technologies – GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA, LTE, LTE A, IoT. He was also involved in standardisation, marketing support and in Patent Management related to above technologies. He contributed to multiple international projects (EC FP6, FP7), acted as Evaluator in EC H2020, ANR and Technical Auditor for CELTIC. He holds Secretary and Treasurer positions in Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF).

Dr Kumar has been Visiting Professor for 25 years for graduate courses in mobile communications in ENST (IMT Paris-Tech), CENTRALESUPELEC, ISEP, EURECOM in France and in MNIT in India. He was Associate Professor at the Université de Marne la Vallée in France for six years. He acted as member of Industrial Advisory Board of CTIF Denmark, of Conseil Technique of SUPELEC-France and of the joint INRIA-Bell Labs research lab.

He has widely lectured on 5G and IoT at IEEE and WWRF events, has been guest editor, referee for IEEE publications and PhD guide and examiner with CentraleSupelec and INRIA. He has 80 technical publications and 33 patents.

References

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Published

2021-02-05

How to Cite

Kumar, V. (2021). Selecting IoT Connectivity Protocols for Rural Development Applications. Journal of Mobile Multimedia, 17(1-3), 455–464. https://doi.org/10.13052/jmm1550-4646.171323

Issue

2021: Vol 17 Iss 1-3

Section

CONASENSE